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

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Oh Lau, I THINK you paid me a big compliment. You have some doubts about my NT status?

Well I have very sensitive antennae on my forehead that swivel whenever I'm with people, checking out their body language, tones of voice etc and I'm very good at it. I used to make instant judgments but as I have aged disgracefully I try to be more temperate if I take an instant dislike. But as I get to know a person longer I find my initial judgment is often right.

But I was stuck in a swamp until I found this site. I think I'd given up on creativity, personal growth etc because of health issues. I listened to the radio non stop to deaden the space I was in.
Now my mind is buzzing, I'm more alert and I feel very at home here.

I'm trying to understand where you are coming from and I miss a lot of your repartee. And I realise that strangers in shops may not be ignoring my (NT mask) cheerful comments because I'm weird but because they may be aspie. It must feel the same as being touched when I intrude into their personal space. So I leave people alone, but I'm still swivelling to see if they are aspie.

Congrats, you've tripped the ol' perseveration...

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more
'Cause I love you
Yes, I love you
Ahh...

Gazing at people
Some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through
They can't understand
Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end
And I love you
Yes, I love you
Ahh...

(Repeat first verse)

Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade in every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is grey and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is the illusion

No, I didn't used to listen to Days of Future Passed over and over again, or anything like that...

happy birthday

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Had Tri-tops here visited my Oxygen Bar
5 minutes ago I wouldn't have been able
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Now, where was I? Oh yeah!
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(future archaeologic dig, 3,000,000 AD)
"Well. We've found one of these devises with
each hominid skeleton. I surmise it to be a
religious artifact ... ancient worship of metal
cannisters and rubber tubing? Or perhaps they
were all musicians, and this is some sort of
prehistoric bagpipe."

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(Limited time only).

Merle! I'm pictographically chiseling pictographs below your pictographed pictographs! Mine say:

^^# @& * @> // { % ! !!
(translation: I missed you while I was away! I hope you've eaten lots of spinach for your upcoming "move muscles"! !!)

Here's some inspiration:

Wow! 30 additional pages while I was away! I'll return after I've read everything. Hello to everyone new, and hello to all members established (as opposed to "all members old" ) Hang in there Rjaye! Congrats on 1,000 posts LauSpamMan!

Wondering:
Inventor, Inventor, wherefore art thou Inventor?
(and Nan, etc., etc...)
Everyone must be busy.

Haven't seen Inventor in awhile.


Zanne sits down. Coffee dude puts coffe in hand and puts on headphones.

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio
Gotta get down to it soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know


Man, what a way to start the day. <takes a sip of coffee> I wonder what they would make of Autism Speaks.


Gotta get down to it soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know


Has anyone else notices the victim mentality and defeatism of the younger set? Hmmm <takes headphones off> Now I'm depressed.

Fuzzy crawls in the door, gasping for relief from the he-said-she said "we are all victims" mentality found elsewhere...

No joe for me, but I will take a coffee colored tan from the glow of experience in here!

Saw a great video from my teens today. I thought you all might like it. Its from a bygone era now. Let me take you back to the days when music was made with human voices and real guitars..

Dire straits - Brothers in Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

gack!
we is all survivors here! I do think it is better to not be diagnosed until you were in your 50's. This way you get the support of all those NTs that keep telling you to 'get with the program' and by golly, after a while you DO, cause you don't know you 'can't'. Then when you find out you shouldn't have been able to, but you did, its satisfying.
oh, hell, it's not fun for anyone! but attitude is all, you know.

I would like to take a vacation. I took one oh, years ago - 1987. I drove the Oregon Coast and stopped when I wanted to, and played on the beach and went crabbing on a beautiful estuary. *sigh*. I would like to take some time to contemplate what having AS means to my life and reconcile with it. and I would like to just have FUN! lie in the sun and splash in the ocean and luxuriate in having time to just have time.

But being single and supporting myself does not leave anything over just surviving, and that is how I began my post. So I guess I have come full circle.

Merle