hartzofspace
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15 Apr 2007, 10:26 pm
I shall get out my Haitian VooDoo doll post haste and stick it in the head. What is your neighbor's name?
Laughter is the Best Medicine!
15 Apr 2007, 10:28 pm
Call me wierd, but I don't like being touched by strangers, near strangers or virtual strangers. A hug, a peck on the cheek, a warm handshake, that will do thank you. A massage seems so, well, redundant or superfluous and definitely invasive. Touch and intimacy are one to me, and since I don't care to be intimate with strangers, it's hands off. Paying someone to touch me or manipulate me would be completely incomprehensible and repulsive. Once my husband and I were at huge flea market. This place is so huge and packed with people that you can easily get separated from whoever you're there with if you lag behind. We got separated but I managed to catch up with him by following the route we usually adhere to. He was being "massaged" by an Asian woman, she was running some little wooden device up and down his back. I quietly freaked and told the woman "That is my man, and nobody touches him but me". My husband appeared chagrined and the Asian woman eyed me strangely, then backed off into her little tent.
That reminds me of my husband with me. If some man is eyeing me too long when he's around, he'll suddenly say, "Do you mind not looking at my wife!" God forbid they touch me. Then it's, "Do you mind not touching my wife!! !"
I once made him go to a Nirvana concert with me. He spent the entire time pushing sweaty teenage boys away from me. I really need to buy him a nice present.
15 Apr 2007, 10:32 pm
15 Apr 2007, 10:38 pm
But for someone who doesn't want to be touched - quite disturbing. 
Disturbing? To whom?
hartzofspace
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15 Apr 2007, 10:41 pm
But for someone who doesn't want to be touched - quite disturbing.
I just like putting my knowledge of anatomy to good use.
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aside: I love you Nan! Thanks!
I have been considering the Rolphing technique of massage, due to my severe fibromyalgia, but it will take a long time to find someone I am comfortable with touching me! For a long time, I had a gem of a Chiropractor, who had this way about him that engendered my immediate trust. I went to him for treatments for nearly fifteen years. Now I've had to start over, since moving to Florida, and, while I am somewhat okay with my current chiropractor, I don't know if I can handle this massage thing.
sinsboldly
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Location: Bandon-by-the-Sea, Oregon
15 Apr 2007, 10:46 pm
*becoming suspicious that I am talking to my wife online* (wouldn't that be an aspie's irony?)
hush, darling, don't give away our secret!
but no, you won't catch me being married, I am waiting for Chuck to notice he is my soul mate.
( snip. . a lot of .gut wrenching sorrow)
and nobody feel bad for ME, either! It was a long time ago and I am resigned to it.
I have searched for 23 years. Every internet adoption website, every ad from the back of magazines before the internet. not every child stays alive just because they were born alive. I am glad, though, that she never met her grandparents, not that they would ever consent meet her, had she been available. (nasty, mean, bigoted people, I still can't believe I escaped them)
But hey! so the Chinese fart rag thing is what we are doing for our 100th page???
Merle
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more tears have been shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. . .
T. Capote
15 Apr 2007, 11:42 pm
Call me wierd, but I don't like being touched by strangers, near strangers or virtual strangers. A hug, a peck on the cheek, a warm handshake, that will do thank you. A massage seems so, well, redundant or superfluous and definitely invasive. Touch and intimacy are one to me, and since I don't care to be intimate with strangers, it's hands off.
Well, I'm not real into strangers, either. And crowds just drive me up a wall. Actually, I don't normally like ANYBODY to be touching me just generically. Handshakes, hugs, whatever. Nope.
But, given the right circumstances, a quiet, comfortable, safe environment, somebody who knows what they're doing, and enough wine, well, anything is possible. (Rather obviously.)
16 Apr 2007, 12:12 am
Chinese Fart Rag?
I am so there.
16 Apr 2007, 12:36 am
16 Apr 2007, 1:09 am
Is sorta wish I hadn't done it now, but "Chinese Fart Rag"... it has to be something to do with a tune by an oriental, slightly more up-to-date version of Le Petomane. Quite how to convey that on a WP page, I'm not sure.
And lets get this right - we're Aspies, so we shouldn't have any arguments - the important posts will be the one just at the end of page 100 - the post that completes the full set of 100 pages, and the first post on page 101, which will be the first post of the second centillium.
(And of course I remember, nanarob. Just posted there again.)
sinsboldly
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16 Apr 2007, 1:11 am
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16 Apr 2007, 9:28 am
I like your tv series idea; each episode an in-depth look at one Aspie (or Aspie family)'s tribulations and solutions. Could someone pitch this to an empathetic network?
Oh my freaking gods, no! They'll put us on Lifetime TV between the "soiled dove" and "bedwetting boy" stories. Worse yet, Fox would pick it up. Can you imagine if it catches on there? We'll be action figures on the toy aisle at Walmart!
Wow. Boggles the mind... the Lau 5000.... The Inventor with new, improved flamethrower action.... the Nan, put her up against the wall and she babbles....
Ubby Ubby Ubby will be ok. Sometimes it's trial by fire. Burns off the excess, leaves the core. Stronger. But it's not pleasant while it's happening, no way one can call it that. Just be there for him, if he wants to talk let him talk. If not, don't force it. Good luck to you and him. He'll make it. Eventually.
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16 Apr 2007, 9:36 am
Well hi there to everyone. Its nice to read about you all. I looks like it i going to be nice to belong to somethin for a change.
My name is Popeye on account that I smoke a pipe. I am a dino, 44 and countin. I have been diagnosed now for 4 years and it is great knowing why i made all the cock ups that i did. Doing this now cause I dont want to be last.
Coffee time now, black with 2 sugars and at least twice or three times an hour.IV is better. Long life. 
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