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bumble
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16 Jan 2014, 6:14 pm

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Yeah it's just one of those down days I guess. PMS, chocolate crash, middle of winter, my seriously screwed up marriage, my utter failure to be productive, inability to deal with what I can't have. :cry:


You are in the middle of PMS mode too huh?

I settled for jam doughnuts instead of the chocolate today.

You sound depressed. Depression sucks.


no offense that's not the path you want to take some of the best mood boosting foods I've found include nuts and berries and if you want to be "naughty" dark chocolate with an expresso .


I can't do coffee anymore, either something in it gives me an immune system reaction or it's all contaminated with barley.
Too much sugar for me is bad too. Christmas and my mom forcing all these gluten free baked goods for me, as much as I love them, gave me zits and itchiness. (They probably weren't gluten free enough either.)
And the xantham gum gummed my stools. Fun.
I bought some dark chocolate chips yesterday and they made me completely wired, ate half the bag.
I have nuts, but I have to wash them then crack them to eat them. Unshelled nuts aren't usually gluten free.

I need to get my diet back on track. Too many packaged cookies and pizzas.


Omega fats if you can eat them (essential fatty acids). Do you eat oily fish such as salmon?

As to the nuts, I noticed that...they seem to be cross contaminated with things like wheat and soya. Annoying.

However there is something in brazil nuts that is supposed to help with mood (I think, and I could be wrong, it might be selenium)....If you have a few brazilnuts and a few squares of dark chocolate that should be ok.



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16 Jan 2014, 6:17 pm

Had salmon yesterday, it was delish


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16 Jan 2014, 6:32 pm

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What if they bore you? Is it fair on you to have to listen to hours of someone talking on and on about their social escapades or laundry for example when you are not allowed to rattle on about what you are passionate about?


And here you've hit upon one of the biggest reasons why I don't bother trying to connect with people.


No but if you are at least willing to listen to them for a little while, then they equally may feel slightly more justified in hearing about your love of turtles or whatever you are interested in.


You assume that they don't listen, but in reality one is expected to stand there for hours at a time listening to them rattle on and on and on and on and on about their social escapades and who said what to whom and how many social points they got for that and who is doing the laundry on Friday and who is shagging whom and how many social cool points they lose for that and then there is game playing and social dancing and if you even dare to mention shark, Evgeny Kissin and piano sonatas or palaeolithic nutrition and...WELL! how could you possibly be so boring...

Yet their laundry and the minute details of their private lives are supposed to be music to my ears...

I still prefer Evgeny.


Yes, true, in which case I would leave. But nevertheless, I have met people that expect me to listen to such various tedious sh***, which I agree is highly boring ( I would much prefer discussing various historical theories of hallucinogenic drugs personally), so they are able to appreciate what I have to say even though they fail to find it interesting. I would leave if the hypothetical situation you pose occurred but then I also believe it to be important to recognize social situations as being highly reciprocal. That is why I often do not understand most aspies who highly dislike small talk. I am utterly happy to speak to someone about their love of turtles and how they want to hug every turtle in the world but only if I feel as if you have some sort of interest in my own internal well being and so forth. Small talk I believe makes quite a psychological difference in relation to the progression a social relationship and forgetting to do it I believe can even have rather drastic effects on a relationship though some may disagree.


I want to hug sharks...but mostly the ones that won't bite my arm off!

I don't do drugs but the history of hallucinogenic drugs sounds interesting. I don't know much about it except hearing about a link between the Salom witch trials and Ergot (a fungi that grows on wheat??? and which is related to LSD???). I did used to be interested in the inquisition, witch hunts and witchcraft trials some years ago. I even had a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum.

I can forget the small talk, but often, when it comes to things like asking how someone is, I kind of assume that if they are having a problem the person will let me know. If they don't I just assume they are doing well without saying anything. The same applies if they have good news. It seems I am supposed to ask though before they will tell me so I try to do it when I can remember to do so. People are strange critters. Just because I don't ask how they are that does not mean I don't care. Maybe to them it does though.


From a logical point of view, that makes sense(about small talk that is), however it is more about the principle behind it and knowing that the person you are speaking to shows an active interest. I love hammer head sharks. They are so cute :)



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16 Jan 2014, 6:36 pm

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What if they bore you? Is it fair on you to have to listen to hours of someone talking on and on about their social escapades or laundry for example when you are not allowed to rattle on about what you are passionate about?


And here you've hit upon one of the biggest reasons why I don't bother trying to connect with people.


No but if you are at least willing to listen to them for a little while, then they equally may feel slightly more justified in hearing about your love of turtles or whatever you are interested in.


You'd think so, but they don't. They just call you boring when you talk about what interests you, and rude when you don't want to listen to them talk about things that bore you.


Yes, then remove yourself from the conversation. I do not know who 'they' are though.



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16 Jan 2014, 7:06 pm

fibonaccispiral777 wrote:
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What if they bore you? Is it fair on you to have to listen to hours of someone talking on and on about their social escapades or laundry for example when you are not allowed to rattle on about what you are passionate about?


And here you've hit upon one of the biggest reasons why I don't bother trying to connect with people.


No but if you are at least willing to listen to them for a little while, then they equally may feel slightly more justified in hearing about your love of turtles or whatever you are interested in.


You'd think so, but they don't. They just call you boring when you talk about what interests you, and rude when you don't want to listen to them talk about things that bore you.


Yes, then remove yourself from the conversation. I do not know who 'they' are though.


The same "they" that you're referring to, I guess.


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16 Jan 2014, 7:25 pm

the thing is I do understand when your desperate you do anything even if it's a short term "fix" only post medicated do I apprecitae how important wholesome food can be.

And the coffee thing why would you want to ruin a good coffee by adding sugar? do as the Romans do and go with out! though if your american I can understand why you would. :wink:

Whats up with america recently I had a Australian /uk made Fanta and it tasted fine the usa one was horried get this it had artifical flavour (the other ones had 5% real orange juice!) and to protect that artificial flavour it had arificial preservetive !

and if I was a true health nazi I'd than have a long rant about fruictose/corn syrup they use cane here :)


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16 Jan 2014, 7:34 pm

And lets not forget being treated like an imbecile for seeing things from a different point of view , :roll: :roll: at ther soup kitchen I volunteer at the young English fellow claimed he loves French women (smart guy) when I told him it's the barely made face that does it for me he looked at me perplexed :roll: than I started ranting and raving how many women here (mostly bogan) look like prostitutes with all that goop than I told him to watch the French news and compare it to the Aussie ones, also a www search will confirm it, yes articles have been written about it. :wink:

vive la difference!


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16 Jan 2014, 8:01 pm

they call in it canned "hunting" might as well shoot fish in a bucket sicker than the naz's not even they breed jews just so they can slaughter them for pleasure :twisted:


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16 Jan 2014, 10:28 pm

aussiebloke wrote:
the thing is I do understand when your desperate you do anything even if it's a short term "fix" only post medicated do I apprecitae how important wholesome food can be.

And the coffee thing why would you want to ruin a good coffee by adding sugar? do as the Romans do and go with out! though if your american I can understand why you would. :wink:

Whats up with america recently I had a Australian /uk made Fanta and it tasted fine the usa one was horried get this it had artifical flavour (the other ones had 5% real orange juice!) and to protect that artificial flavour it had arificial preservetive !

and if I was a true health nazi I'd than have a long rant about fruictose/corn syrup they use cane here :)


I avoid corn, it's all GMO around here...not that that's much of an issue. Stir fry sauces is almost the only concern since I avoid so many other foods anyways, but then again those have lots of white vinegar and corn starch which are high in sulfites which I also need to be careful of. Sulfites give me a rash. Gluten gives me a different kind of rash and makes my peripheral neuropathy worse and seems (although this is harder to pinpoint) to make me depressed and likely to have emotional melt downs. Plus the standard destroying of my small intestines...but that's honestly second to my worry that it's destroying my nervous system. Rather, the correct thing to say is that the gluten causes my immune system to attack my nervous system and the villi in my small intestines.

It's not the sugar in coffee that's bad for me, it's either the coffee itself or that somewhere along the way from it being picked to getting into a bag at the store, it's touched a glutinous grain.

The lentils I ate a couple night ago might not be gluten free enough either. I give them a good wash like you're supposed to, but I should probably just toss the bag and give up on eating them. I can find local bean companies that package and grow only beans, it'll have to do for legumes if I want any.


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