Sweetleaf
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Joined: 6 Jan 2011
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 34,911
Location: Somewhere in Colorado
15 Apr 2023, 3:32 am
15 Apr 2023, 1:12 pm
Sweetleaf wrote:
Idk I still pull a burger out of my ass from time to time.
LOL!! !! Have you seen the tshirt with the donkey pooping burgers? It's one of my favorites. 
15 Apr 2023, 1:13 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Though I kinda wish that the discoverer had had a more melodious sounding name like "Leonardo Di Caprio" instead of "ass-burger".
Of course lots of nasty medical conditions have beautiful sounding names...like melanoma, and salmonella, and it doesnt make them easier to live with.
15 Apr 2023, 10:36 pm
16 Apr 2023, 12:53 am
Sweetleaf wrote:
Idk I still pull a burger out of my ass from time to time.
<joke resisted>
It IS an unfortunate last name.
I would have preferred Dr. Longbottom studying autism.
16 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
Loborojo wrote:
It’s been ges since I was here, but so much more time I spent on social media like Instagram. There I find loads of auto(influencers?) with arguments to convince to stop using the label Asperger of high functioning..as it seems to want to stand out above the ‘low-functioning’ duties because it is polarising the community. Also I see more and more profiles that talk about ADHD and more than half of the symptoms they mention strike me as autism...what do you think of this...is this a woke influence of sorts? 
Wow, maybe they should have two areas. I mean regular classical autism often presents one way, and HFA or AS presents another. I could understand someone wanting to make the distinction. I came here originally to see what the people here were like, and if I really had anything in common. I was always odd in various ways. It would be nice if there were a way of objectively categorizing the placement of people, rather than relying on the judgement of people that may never have understood parts of the DSM.
16 Apr 2023, 10:47 pm
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Ammmmeria,
What is that?A particular person didn't like my German spelling of: 'Ameri-ka'.
Germans use a 'k' rather than a 'c'.
The person who hassled me LITERALLY for 2-3 years about it has been banned now.
Karma carma.
Ironically, he liked to use 'k' also.
16 Apr 2023, 10:50 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Apparently I was one of the last Americans to be diagnosed with "Aspergers".
Im okay with the label. The text book description of aspie kids being "little professors" fitted my eight year old self like a glove.
Im okay with the label. The text book description of aspie kids being "little professors" fitted my eight year old self like a glove.
Same.
We are also called "Little Spocks" these days, though I personally like "Little Tuvoks".
18 Apr 2023, 1:55 pm
18 Apr 2023, 2:07 pm
Pepe wrote:
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Ammmmeria,
What is that?A particular person didn't like my German spelling of: 'Ameri-ka'.
Germans use a 'k' rather than a 'c'.
The person who hassled me LITERALLY for 2-3 years about it has been banned now.
Karma carma.
Ironically, he liked to use 'k' also.
18 Apr 2023, 5:06 pm
18 Apr 2023, 10:26 pm
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Ammmmeria,
What is that?A particular person didn't like my German spelling of: 'Ameri-ka'.
Germans use a 'k' rather than a 'c'.
The person who hassled me LITERALLY for 2-3 years about it has been banned now.
Karma carma.
Ironically, he liked to use 'k' also.
Well...I dunno if its so "silly".
Because when English speaking Americans spell it that way its usually on purpose to make a provocative political point. So if you're not trying to be provocative then (for your own sake) you should spell it right.
Back in circa 1970 the Weather Underground would spell it on posters with a K to equate the US with Nazi Germany. A lady teacher I had in high school got offended by a girl in class who would spell it that way on test answers, and lectured her in front of class. The girl(who happened to be from the redneck part of town)just shrugged and said "thats how everyone in my family spells it"( ie that she was too illiterate to know any better and wasnt making a statement with the spelling). Though you dont see that deliberate misspelling much anymore you do see the related "Amerikkka" occasionally (three Ks for the KKK).
18 Apr 2023, 10:41 pm
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Ammmmeria,
What is that?A particular person didn't like my German spelling of: 'Ameri-ka'.
Germans use a 'k' rather than a 'c'.
The person who hassled me LITERALLY for 2-3 years about it has been banned now.
Karma carma.
Ironically, he liked to use 'k' also.
He is autistic.
'nuff said.
18 Apr 2023, 10:47 pm
18 Apr 2023, 11:02 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
skibum wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Ammmmeria,
What is that?A particular person didn't like my German spelling of: 'Ameri-ka'.
Germans use a 'k' rather than a 'c'.
The person who hassled me LITERALLY for 2-3 years about it has been banned now.
Karma carma.
Ironically, he liked to use 'k' also.
Well...I dunno if its so "silly".
Because when English speaking Americans spell it that way its usually on purpose to make a provocative political point. So if you're not trying to be provocative then (for your own sake) you should spell it right.
Back in circa 1970 the Weather Underground would spell it on posters with a K to equate the US with Nazi Germany. A lady teacher I had in high school got offended by a girl in class who would spell it that way on test answers, and lectured her in front of class. The girl(who happened to be from the redneck part of town)just shrugged and said "thats how everyone in my family spells it"( ie that she was too illiterate to know any better and wasnt making a statement with the spelling). Though you dont see that deliberate misspelling much anymore you do see the related "Amerikkka" occasionally (three Ks for the KKK).
So, since every German spells Ammmeria with a 'K', they are all suggesting the country is fascist?
"Interesting."
Keep in mind, I had no idea that spelling it with a "k" had a different connotation in the USA.
No one informed me of this piece of information.
The erroneous assumption is that I, an Australian, knew all the nuances of Ameeeerian colloquialisms.
Epic Failure, and not the only one by a longshot.
Rather than informing me in PM, I was hounded for almost 3 years without realising what the issue was.
I suspect the person involved only had a problem with the German spelling rather than any connotation associated with it.
The more I was hounded, the more defiant I became.
Anyway, Karma.
BTW, 3 brackets on either side of a person's handle, E.G. (((Pepe))), is considered anti-semitic these days, but most don't know it.
19 Apr 2023, 11:33 pm
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