The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Absolutely. Gonna put a graphic with that?

Oooooooooh.... this is good stuff! A complicated twist and turn with a surprise ending! I'll use this for chapter 3! (If the book isn't complex enough, it won't hold the interest of the Aspies who will be reading it). And I can work in the whole "back rub into non-back-rub" thing in the chapter on "Now What?"

Thanks Nan!

No prob. Always happy to help. Don't forget the bit about the sangria. Or was it rose. No, I think it might have been a burgundy.

Maybe you should put a chapter in on how to send up a flare?

Nan, you are so much more impulsive than I! I was the one who committed the entire pamplet in the birth control pills to memory and followed the rules exactly! LOL Maybe I am the only female on the planet who has done this.

Flares!! Great idea! I love flares! Oops! Got distracted. Now, er,...what were we talking about?....

...Oh yeah, how to date.

I love red flares! Especially when you've acclimated your eyes to the darkness, and they go off (even a mile away) and you can walk around and see as well as you can in daylight....

Well, yeah. Life is good. It was rough getting started, we lost six during pregnancy. Then, we gave up "trying" (actually we gave up more than once), but two little miracles finally "came true". We have a six year old daugher and an eight year old son, both autistic. She looks like Mommy, he looks like Daddy - a perfect family.

You know when you are done recording on a video tape and you break off the little tab? My tab is broken off, so I can no longer record. Play still works fine, though.

Congratulations DirtDawg! Glad you had two "miracles" ! Well, I'll be. Guess there's enough of us that have had kids that my manual on dating won't be necessary.

*sigh* ... It would have been a good one though.

The question remains, however: can the newly developing species compete with the existing species when one of our fundamental differences is that we suck socially, especially when dating? When that part of our brain is tied behind our back (er, ... so to speak)? When statistically (so, true?) the more education you acquire the less kids you'll have?

Maybe I should have looked at the Wikipedia article on "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" before watching it... and maybe not. I did miss a couple of the sillies. Such as:

Nope, actually I couldn't take 'em - they do bad things to my liver, so I have to use other means. Unfortunately, after being up talking (ok, listening, actually) for almost 24 hours straight, and a half a bottle of wine, well.... yep, impulsivity, that's my middle name.

But, you know, I'd just come off a 3 year marriage when I wasn't using anything at all to prevent children and nothing happened (no, it wasn't his problem - he had another kid during that time, with someone else) and so I have to think fate was definitely involved here.

Either that or whatever they put in the food at the mess hall....

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I was on the pill for a decade (now my partner is vasectomized). I was "religious" (strictly observant) about making sure to always take it, at 12 midnight-since I'm more likely to be awake then than during the day. I didn't forget or lose them, I'm naturally hypervigilant & anxious, so they were never far from my mind. Insuring my infertility was (and still is) my highest priority. I'm a reader of fine print & saver of old information sheets (medical or otherwise). I wouldn't use the 7 "off-week" inert pills. I'd keep track, I knew when to begin the next package & didn't need the fake reminders (intent of the sugar pills) provided.

Ay-up, Lau!

Wikipedia says they had to tone down the British accent used in "were-rabbit" so that American children could understand the movie. I like hearing British accents (had a friend named Trevor from Manchester who said that his accent was nothing like a Londoner's, and that several accents exist throughout England - depicting class and region). I saw you write that you stopped watching some show because you grew tired of listening to the American accent. Made me curious - does our accent grate on your nerves? Do you prefer a particular American accent (northern, southern, western, Boston, etc.), or do they all make you just a little aggravated? (Not being inflammatory, just curious as to how it is for you). Trevor told me that if I traveled through England, I'd hit regions where I wouldn't be able to understand a single word spoken. (?)

Wow, I take the day off of the computer, due to an all day killer headache, and here you all are, talking about fertility! Well, I had one kid, and she's all grown up. And a full blown Aspie. Does that help? Of course, she swears that she's never having any kids. But I said the same thing at her age. I just wanted one, for the experience.

BTW, thanks for the support about my neighbor. I've been told by several people that he's a little "Crazy," but harmless. Whatever that means. I think this is why the headache. It's still throbbing, but I hope it'll wear off soon. It almost never responds to aspirin or anything.

I'm still waiting to hear back from my landlord about trading houses.

Hi Belfast! I was rather hyper last time I wrote you! Meant you no harm in any way, and apologize if I hurt your feelings. Sometimes I get a little too playful, but I never mean to insult anyone. Looking back over what I wrote the first time you landed here made me cringe.

Hi HartzofSpace! I bet the lack of sleep did give you a monster headache. I'm sorry! Glad to hear you had a little girl! I know that you were a fine mom. She will be too (if she changes her mind ).

Thanks. I would dearly like to give my neighbor my headache! If only that were possible!

oh, my heart goes out to you, Dawg. I miscarried 6 times myself between 4th and 6 months, so I understand the heartbreak and confusion and blame that can embitter one against the whole family experience. I am so glad you perservered ( or is that perseverated?) until you have your two little miracles!

I have brought one pregnancy to term, in 1969, and she was taken from me as they had different laws back then, different procedures and practices.

so I have reproduced myself, but didn't raise any children. I don't know if she is OTS, either.

Merle