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Dr. Phil was a protégé of Oprah Winfrey who went out on his own and has had his own talk show for many years now.

He is an American from Oklahoma.

He is partially bald.

I may have heard the name before... Uhmmm.
Oh. I have heard of Oprah Winfrey. Is she well known in the USA? She used to do some sort of TV programme that came on the UK TV. I didn't watch it as it was for NT women I think. My Mum didn't watch it either. I think one needs to be the right sort of person to enjoy it.

That's like asking "is Jesus well known in the USA?".

Yes Oprah has been a major talk show host since the late seventies, and grown into being a major cultural force. And a role model for young ladies as an entrepreneur, and like that. Has had her own TV network for almost a generation.

But back to the subject...none of your posts on this very thread are excessively long, and are all fine to read. I don't see what you're so worried about.

I heard she was well known. Not as well known as Jesus.

Honestly, it's not uncommon. I've seen it a lot in various autism forums, and have fallen prey to it myself far too often when I get enthused or have researched the hell out of something in order to address a question. I'd imagine that autistic spaces would be far more gentle towards giant data dumps in posts.

It may also be why I've never really used Twitter - trying to get my thoughts down into a tiny space is excruciating. I keep running into "but in order to really understand X, I'll need to tell you about Y and Z first".

Yes. I go off on lots of tangents as well.

Ah, but you haven't seen the first drafts. Now tell me more about this Jesus bloke. Wasn't he a South Park character or something?

Umm. No. Only seen short clips of South Park so I don't know the characters names.

Hmmm, I'm not sure if this is a joke I'm missing the subtext of, but if not, mine just looks like a down to earth, regular woman. If anything she looks maybe like a private school mum or a well dressed primary school teacher? I don't know, I've never actually thought about what she looks like. But I've had 4 psychologists, all of them were women and they all looked completely different.

best summary of that bald prick ever, well played mr KK.

In college I wrote stream of conscious letters to friends. Now I talk stream of conscious to my besties. I also gathered it's not particularly acceptable. I wrote in my letters (25 yrs ago) - "sorry to seem so self-absorbed". It will be interesting writing my book b/c then I get to do that again. Oddly I think my childhood diary was 1-5 word entries, so I am not sure when I "took off".

Non-sequitur - my daughter just sprayed(?) whipping cream into her mouth. Reminds me of when I used to "eat" sugar from restaurant packets as a child. I could write a long time from here to there and relating this to that, but of course I won't. Sigh.

My point is: Your posts seem normal to me. I read some in their entirety and for some I skim for highlights (if I had time I'd read it all!) In high school I took a class that helped me focus on comprehension by reading first and last sentences in a timed situation.

You have reminded me of a hillarious moment at a job interview where about 20 to 30 of us were being tested to see if we were suitable for the job. As it was a railway job, it was also a brief test to see if we had a hope of passing the exams, as every two years one has to pass the exams to keep ones job and one has to have a 96% or higher result where a whole section of the exam must be free from wrong answers to pass. (You do get a second try if you failed the first try but if you fail the second you are out of a job).
Now as these tests are not easy, at the interview, they needed to do a simple exam to see who could be trained to pass the exams and also to do the job, and who was likely to fail.
So we all sat in this big classroom type room with tables. It was basically a classroom type of enviroment. I later found out the man who was in charge was the railway vicar and he was placed there as he wasn't directly employed by the company so he had no connections.. A nuteral person. He had obviously been used inthis position several times as....

Well. The test papers were put on the desks upsideown. None of us was allowed to look. We were either given 30 minutes or 45 miutes to complete the test. I can't remember. At least 30 minutes. He had the stopwatch ready. We all had pens... and "Go!"

It was one of the most hillarious moments in my life... Haha! (Well. Maybe not quite, but it was funny). I turned my paper over. I am one to always take time to read instructions and small print on anything official even if I don't understand it. I saw some instructions so I read them. It said "Write your name at the front, then turn to the very back page, and write your name and date in the bottom left hand corner. You habe then finished the test. Do not do anything else". So this is what I did which didn't take more then a few seconds to do.
I dis this and I think one other person also did this. We then sat there and looked at each other and looked at the man who gae us the exam and he put his finer to his lips to make sure we kept quiet. It was hillarious. We just sat there while we watched all these people frantically trying to answer all these complicated questions. After about 5 to 10 minutes I noticed some people lookinb at us puzzled why we were not doing anything, and then they would carry on with their test... Haha! It wa so funny the looks they were giving us. A type of "Well, you're going to fail" sort of looks. Out of that group I think the two of us were the only ones to pass? They had roughly 2500 application forms for each position and there had been 7 vacancies to fill. They had to employ people just to sift through the application forms. I was one of the few to get the job who did not have a degree as they saw my years of retail training and realized I had more to me then what there was on paperwork. (I had slowly worked my way up to be head of a bicycle department by that time).
You can imagine what it was like just sitting there trying not to smile while you would get occasional loos from those frantically working away, and some finished their exams five or ten minutes before the time, and they were really puzzled and just sat there lookig at us as we looked at them. It was soo funny trying not to laugh.

Anyway. I never forget that experience and the vicar also was amused. HAHA!

My type of test!! ! On Wednesday I went to a volunteer event and a self-proclaimed "organizer" at our table had everyone start with Step 3. I thought I was being polite when after 20 minutes of her bossing us around for Steps 3 and 4, I said I was going to go back and do Step 1. Near the very end she admitted she didn't like reading directions. She completed her project and left. I read Step 2 and saw we had missed something - everyone at my table said - nah, that's for someone else to do ---- uh, it's in the instructions to us. NTs are weird!! ! Just for kicks, I confirmed with the actual organizer that it was something for us to do, but most folks missed it and that was okay. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't. But if someone doesn't even see it they don't get that choice. That said, when stressed I second-guess myself A LOT and might misunderstand the directions. That IQ quiz where is said to choose multiple answers; I also initially just selected one answer, but the answers themselves indicated I missed something, so I started over and read the directions. I would love to write longer posts than you (friendly competition), but alas, I have to go. Next time.

You write very nice posts.

Thank you.

(And stuff it to that English teacher who ostracized me in high school. Sarcasm: Not that I am bitter.)