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07 Mar 2007, 6:29 pm

Ah! That would be me then.

Except that I'm not sure about my capability to do it from the perspective of an autistic visual thinker and I don't think that I have much of an attention deficit, plus my (hypo)manic tendencies are on hold.

However, I do understand metaphor but I have very little idea of how to get my emotions across.

This might be called parody.

I'm in a funny mood tonight.

I apologise if I offend.

Sorry.

Why the **** do I have to apologise all the time.



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07 Mar 2007, 7:15 pm

I don't think I could enjoy the book that much for 2 reasons:

1) I was diagnosed a week before and hadn't been able to accept it fully. Hit just a little too close to home. Granted, I am not all thaaaaat, but most of the characteristics were known to me by experience.
2) It seemed like a novelized version of the DSM-IV... if the diagnostic criteria said that we tend to rock, the character rocks... if we have sleeping patterns problems, the character has problems... only exaggerated. I was expecting to find out that the kid was lactose intolerant and/or got a reaction to strawberries or peanuts (and I am sure that it would have happen if the criteria <any criteria> would have include those... :? )

Anyway... a warmer and less "I tend to do that... I tend to take things literally" (Mozart & the Whale - without breaking the records) would have made a greater story.


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07 Mar 2007, 10:45 pm

kyethra wrote:
There was one thing in the book that made me feel bad about myself. This was the smiley faces. Near the beginning of the book there are a few smiley faces. I didn't know what some of them were supposed to mean. But the kid in the book did-- and he obviously had a much more severe form than I do. I sat down with my husband and we talked about the smiley faces and what they might mean. I have the same problem with the newest version of MSN instant messenger. When you scroll over the little faces it no longer tells you what they mean.


You mean you didn't even know the happy and sad ones? Hmm, the only one I couldn't figure out was the one at the bottom of the page, in the set of four, the second one from the left. Heck, I even showed my NT friends and they couldn't tell what it was!


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