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15 Jan 2014, 1:23 am

If you don't mind I would love to have another selfie of you as your avatar. Even with long hair it would still be you and I would feel like my friend were right here again when we talk here. There are certain avatars that I really love and make me feel closer to you guys. Lilpinkcoupe's is one of them as well and there are others. But as long as you don't mind it would make me feel closer to you to see your pic rather than Art Carney's scary one.

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15 Jan 2014, 1:27 am

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Yeah!

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15 Jan 2014, 10:38 am

See, blabby, I told you that 3 months ago but you didn't listen to me!

Anyway, back to topic:
Face-blindness: I can get to know a face after numerous contacts with that person. But I cannot form the image of that face in my mind. I cannot even form the image of my own face in my mind. I would, however, say that my face-blindness is rather mild.

Perceptual style: Almost instantaneous cognitive processing from part to whole, but I only observe details, and details within details. My visual field cannot ever focus on a whole object. Not even a detail, when considered as a whole, can I see either. It's like some kind of fractal joke according to which I can't see anything in focus, but my mind puts it all together to the best of its ability.

Is this an autistic trait? Or am I deluding myself?

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15 Jan 2014, 1:52 pm

JSBACHlover wrote:

See, blabby, I told you that 3 months ago but you didn't listen to me!

au contraire, mon frère, I DID listen to you but my lack of confidence made me hide myself away behind santy clause.

JSBACHlover wrote:

Perceptual style: Almost instantaneous cognitive processing from part to whole, but I only observe details, and details within details. My visual field cannot ever focus on a whole object. Not even a detail, when considered as a whole, can I see either. It's like some kind of fractal joke according to which I can't see anything in focus, but my mind puts it all together to the best of its ability. Is this an autistic trait? Or am I deluding myself?

I have a question- does this details orientation extend further into your life, existentially as a sort of "getting lost in the forest for the trees" deal?

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15 Jan 2014, 7:24 pm

auntblabby wrote:

JSBACHlover wrote:

See, blabby, I told you that 3 months ago but you didn't listen to me!

au contraire, mon frère, I DID listen to you but my lack of confidence made me hide myself away behind santy clause.

JSBACHlover wrote:

I have a question- does this details orientation extend further into your life, existentially as a sort of "getting lost in the forest for the trees" deal?

I told you too! I bet a bunch of people told you~

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15 Jan 2014, 7:25 pm

wozeree wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

JSBACHlover wrote:

See, blabby, I told you that 3 months ago but you didn't listen to me!

au contraire, mon frère, I DID listen to you but my lack of confidence made me hide myself away behind santy clause.

JSBACHlover wrote:

I have a question- does this details orientation extend further into your life, existentially as a sort of "getting lost in the forest for the trees" deal?

I told you too! I bet a bunch of people told you~

but henry corwin IS ME!

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15 Jan 2014, 8:16 pm

JSBACHlover wrote:

I'm the same way, at least with faces. I've also become conscious sometimes of seeing things as details/small parts of a whole, but it's hard for me to say whether I consistently see things that way or not.

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15 Jan 2014, 8:45 pm

Yes, I always lose the forest for the tress - except for when I am preaching at Mass. That's the only time I ever really make sense.

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15 Jan 2014, 8:46 pm

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Yes, I always lose the forest for the tress - except for when I am preaching at Mass. That's the only time I ever really make sense.

could that be due to the fact that a presentation [sermon?] has to be defined by a subject?

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15 Jan 2014, 8:51 pm

No, it's because something just lights up in my head and I get the whole homily at once, and then I preach it, and it's usually pretty good.

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15 Jan 2014, 8:53 pm

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No, it's because something just lights up in my head and I get the whole homily at once, and then I preach it, and it's usually pretty good.

I know you probably can't do this because of privacy issues, but I wish you could put a YouTube video up of you giving a sermon. I still love a good sermon!

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15 Jan 2014, 8:55 pm

auntblabby wrote:

wozeree wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

JSBACHlover wrote:

See, blabby, I told you that 3 months ago but you didn't listen to me!

au contraire, mon frère, I DID listen to you but my lack of confidence made me hide myself away behind santy clause.

JSBACHlover wrote:

I have a question- does this details orientation extend further into your life, existentially as a sort of "getting lost in the forest for the trees" deal?

I told you too! I bet a bunch of people told you~

but henry corwin IS ME!

I meant to watch that episode after you explained it.

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15 Jan 2014, 9:01 pm

wozeree wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

wozeree wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

JSBACHlover wrote:

See, blabby, I told you that 3 months ago but you didn't listen to me!

au contraire, mon frère, I DID listen to you but my lack of confidence made me hide myself away behind santy clause.

JSBACHlover wrote:

I have a question- does this details orientation extend further into your life, existentially as a sort of "getting lost in the forest for the trees" deal?

I told you too! I bet a bunch of people told you~

but henry corwin IS ME!

I meant to watch that episode after you explained it.

it's a good one, and it was shot on videotape rather than 35mm film so it has a live quality that I find appealing.

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15 Jan 2014, 9:04 pm

That's from the Twilight Episode about the guy who turns into Santa Claus. That makes me feel better about auntblabby's avatar, but he sure looks like one really creepy Santa...

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15 Jan 2014, 9:09 pm

JSBACHlover wrote:

That's from the Twilight Episode about the guy who turns into Santa Claus. That makes me feel better about auntblabby's avatar, but he sure looks like one really creepy Santa...

it is still a helluva lot better-looking [more wholesome] than this guy-

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15 Jan 2014, 9:15 pm

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I don't see whole things. I see part of the edge of a door, then another part of the edge; my mind understands this to be a straight line. Then the same process with the top, bottom and then the inner side with hinges. It's almost instantaneous. But I can never see the whole thing, only parts.

It's my mind that puts it together.

Moreover, if I try to zoom into the parts, then these, too, break into parts. It's as though I go from detail to ever smaller detail.

Don't get me wrong: I can see right now that I am in a square room with a door, a window and a rug and a sofa. But the process of mental construction strikes me as piecemeal. So when I walk down the street, every detail jumps out at me. I don't remember them. They just captivate me.

I cannot reconstruct images of faces in my head. I know that my friend Anthony has two eyes, short hair, ears that sick out, and he is Mexican so has dark skin. But I can't imagine his entire face.

Are you able to drive?

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