All Attempts Shot Down

Post Reply New Topic

Neant, have you ever tried Social Skills Training?? I know they offer it at Judevine. That's what they told me I should do.

Say! We could do it together!! ! --(if I ever got the money to pay for it).

I don't know what you guys obsess over, but for me it's always been games. when I was young D&D was one of my main social outlets. later on it was tabletop wargames. then Video arcades. then D&D again......and some wargames.......

A few years ago I was lucky enough to find a large German Boardgaming club in the New England area. I try to go twice a month for a few hours and I always feel great afterwards. I don't really talk with anyone outside of game night, but I always feel welcome when I go.

If you can find a group like this in your local area I really recomend giving it a shot.

Transportation issues are my problem. I can drive, but I can't see well enough to drive after dark.

I keep getting invited to join a group that explores my interests, and the kids (14, 11, 7) are even welcome, but it would mean driving home for half an hour in the dark. I can't do it, and there is no one in my area who is involved who might give me/us a ride.

I learned looooong ago not to even mention my obsessions to anyone else. I've heard "You are weird" far too often.

I have the same problem, gah, it sucks

Seriously, it makes it 100 times easier to interact with normal people by abusing robitussin. I mean, you should practice its use judiciously, carefully. But it remove all the anxiety and reluctance to interact with normal people when you take even a little of it.

Robitussin? The cough medicine???

What about just a good shot of Scotch???

Hmm. Too bad it took me forever to understand this concept - and unfortunately, it took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people ("NTs" especially) just don't seem to want me around, period. Paranoid? Perhaps, but I may never really know...

SinSister, sorry to see you've had such a hard time. It seems to me that society doesn't mind people talking about some obsessions such as sport, how much they've drunk and similar, but they are not so accepting of others.

I don't seem to have so much trouble making friends, as keeping them. They tend to just remain as acquaintances.

I'm lucky, in a twisted sort of way, that I've never really wanted friends and always have had this undercurrent of contempt for society as a whole. Even from the time school kids were bullying me, my wish wasn't for companionship but for folks to just leave me the heck alone. So I can honestly say they didn't want me and I didn't want them either. I know, I know, I'm being hateful, but that's how I've dealt with my relationship to the world without breaking down.......again.

I didn't have my first true friends until my late 20s and I must emphasize the word "true" as they accepted my true self, not some superficial personality I put on to be more sociable. One of them, my ex-boyfriend, had aspie traits too and our bond was beyond anything I've experienced in this world. Eventually, life had separate paths for us, however, but the time we spent together was valuable in my understanding of people.

My indifference toward humanity has turned into detached appreciation. I'm not actively seeking friends as I don't feel many people would accept my quirks but I try to interact with them with compassion. I just hope NTs can, in time, learn to relate to us the same way.

Last edited by nirrti_1 on 10 Jul 2005, 3:44 am, edited 1 time in total.

What is that? Tell me more please.

It's a brand of cough medicine sold in the United States. It contains some alcohol in the ingredients so drinking enough would have the effect of say, having several cocktails.

Actually, the alcohol content is neglegible. The ingredient that supresses coughing is dextromethorphan hydrobromide (DXM HBr), an opiate that behaves as a dissociative anesthetic and depressant at normal doses and becomes hallucinogenic at high doses.

Taking cough medicine for "social" purposes is dangerous because people often ignore the other ingredients in the cough medicine, some of which can cause serious harm at relatively low doses. DXM is also potentially fatal in some circumstances, such as when taken while using prescription MAO inhibitors (antidepressants) or when followed by intense physical activity (raves).

You mean to tell me I can take a dose of cough medicine right before being drug tested and come up positive for opiates just like with Hydrocodone and Vicodin? I better remind myself to keep away from Robitussen until I'm officially employed.

so what's the point then? Why not just drink several cocktails?