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DevilKisses
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26 Nov 2014, 3:42 pm

I hate when people hyperfocus on my quirks. It often happens when I try to explain things to people. Instead of people focusing on my message they hyperfocus on the way I word things.

I often coin new terms because I don't know what terms other people would use. They just focus on how "cute and unique" they are instead of the actual meaning. When I find out what terms people use, I use them instead of my neologisms.

I've always been self-conscious about the way I word things. I often spend hours and hours trying to figure out how normal people would say things that pop up in my head.


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26 Nov 2014, 9:25 pm

this happens to me so much and i hate it. i try to teach people things and they think im different and dont focus on what the heck im sayin.


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27 Nov 2014, 3:24 pm

Yah - I have my own full version of the Englsih language, a much more logical version.

Only in the English language do you:

"Park your car in the driveway"

and

"Drive your car on the parkway"

People around me seem to have gotten used to the way I speak but I still do get a few smiles from others when I do.


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27 Nov 2014, 3:43 pm

eggheadjr wrote:
Yah - I have my own full version of the Englsih language, a much more logical version.

Only in the English language do you:

"Park your car in the driveway"

and

"Drive your car on the parkway"

People around me seem to have gotten used to the way I speak but I still do get a few smiles from others when I do.


Actually, a driveway is a private road you drive on to get from the public street to a private residence. Generally you would park in a parking spot at the end of a driveway, not on the part people need to drive on to get to the parking spots. You park in a parking space because it is an enclosed space. You drive on a road because it is not.

A parkway refers to a highway that's actually a park on the sides of the road. There are generally places to park on the side of a parkway for scenic overlooks and things like that.

So I think those are actually perfectly logical statements.


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28 Nov 2014, 9:34 am

alex wrote:
eggheadjr wrote:
Yah - I have my own full version of the Englsih language, a much more logical version.

Only in the English language do you:

"Park your car in the driveway"

and

"Drive your car on the parkway"

People around me seem to have gotten used to the way I speak but I still do get a few smiles from others when I do.


Actually, a driveway is a private road you drive on to get from the public street to a private residence. Generally you would park in a parking spot at the end of a driveway, not on the part people need to drive on to get to the parking spots. You park in a parking space because it is an enclosed space. You drive on a road because it is not.

A parkway refers to a highway that's actually a park on the sides of the road. There are generally places to park on the side of a parkway for scenic overlooks and things like that.

So I think those are actually perfectly logical statements.



Hmmm... makes sense when you explain it that way.

I think the root of the contradiction comes from the fact that the word "park" means two very different things:

1) noun - a nice, expansive green space with lawns and trees.

2) verb - to bring your vehicle to a halt and shutting it down.

Far too many words have more than one meaning, often very different meanings depending on context.

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28 Nov 2014, 12:08 pm

At my school. This. BIG TIME. I had enough with it.

Some kept saying I get a special treatment. HELL, no one said I should be treated as. Despite that I kept telling them not to, yet they still do. If one of them give me a failing grade for something reasonable, then no problem! I wont complain. But nopes, they didn't. Instead, they kept threatening me to get rid of the special treatment. Why is that?? Who seriously told people to treat me any differently? I asked them why, they all just kept telling me that I'm "smart", "pretty", "unique", etc. -.- They never paid attention to what I said.

Being silent, and shutting up about everything even didn't worked out last I checked. :x


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