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

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Nan, I think that stress takes a terrible toll on the body. I can't take any stress now after years of high performance in the work force.

On the other hand poverty is no fun either...

I would stay in my present job in I were that person. Hindsight shows me that I should have worked part time instead of leaving in poor health. I was a wonderful teacher nearly all of my career, but I ruined my reputation in the last years when I hung on.

Argh! And with the above post, you invaded England.

(1066)

Quoting krex:

Yes, the movies had a sobering effect on me. I seem to have been hung up a long time on their mistakes and forgetting all the good they did. I was really especially amazed by the care my mother put into my grooming. In the films my hair was always fixed so pretty with bows and curls and such and my clothing was so lovely. That sounds like minor stuff, but I had forgotten all of those things that she did for me. My 24 year old daughter was watching the films with me and she pointed out how my mother put such effort into my hair and clothes. We were both crying a lot while watching the films. Especially when we got to that point in the films where we could see my mother aging and looking so tired and depressed but trying to put up a good front for all of us. That period of her physical decline coincided with the period her four children all started experimenting with destructive lifestyles. Oh, how arrogant and self occupied we were, not even aware of what it was doing to her. And yes, my mother was always a knock out. In fact, I remember a boyfriend of mine when he came to pick me up and saw my mom he said "That's your mom? How about if you stay home and I'll take her out." He was joking of course, but it was a little disconcerting.

@blessedmom: NumberTwoSon FLOVES the "Kids' Rock by Tim Hawkins" video, and has played it a dozen times or more.

@Chuck: Ditto for Xan and the "Ask a Ninja" vids. Not only has he played them many times over, he's now showing them to all of his friends, and their families, to general merriment.

@CC: The "Free Hugs" video was made at Pitt Street Mall in Sydney, Australia! You can't see it in the video, but the filming location is at the foot of Sydney's tallest building - Sydney (used to be called "Centrepoint") Tower. The day after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in NYC, I was sitting in that Myer store watching the Channel 9 news feed on a big screen. Usually the whole area is thronging with people and reverberating with noise, but that day it was spookily quiet, there were hardly any people about, and those few were not making eye contact with anyone around them. Nice to see it in more cheerful circumstances.

@lau: MS Paint is not a bad all-purpose drawing program, but if it has a transparency function, I've never been able to make it work. When I need a transparent background, I open the file in Adobe PhotoDeluxe (which came with one of my digital cameras), view image layers, and reset the opacity from 100% to 1%.

((((cosmiccat))))

Quoting Sleepydragon:

It's perfect for us, Sleepy. And if we get our own reality show it would be the perfect theme song. Now lets see, Blessedmom plays the flute, Nan plays, is it the sax or the trumpet, Nan? I know it's a horn of some kind. Chuck plays the sax, right? Sleepy, do you sing? Merle has a wonderful singing voice. Lau sings well also. I play the keyboard, but not all that well. Who else?

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There is an incorrect assumption that sometimes we don't have any clue what is going on in the world around us.

Or that we cannot relate to other people because the fact that we need to study a reaction that people have, ask a lot of questions, etc. or just plain don't understand how to relate to them that we must be stupid and have no clue about anything that is going on around us (this person may be sad, that person may be angry, etc) just because we react to the world differently.

And as far as implications go, I was an English major in college and spent two semesters studying how people communicate. I think that helped me a lot.

We studied facial expressions, tone of voice, phrasing... the list could just go on and on. My classes were not exactly worried about telling people how to communicate, but studying how they did it.

I did primarily study literature, though.

I think I could write your songs

I play a mean stereo!

Quoting Sleepydragon:

Thanks for filling me in on the video's location and a bit of its history. Today, I stopped the vcr for a break and was amazed to see what was on the TV. It was a local talk show and they were announcing a group from "down under" - The Sick Puppies. They did a great live performance of the song in the Free Hugs video. Just three of them producing such a great sound. And no theatrics, just very laid back but powerful and moving. They then talked a little about the bands they have been opening for (forget who) and how the video came to be. They're playing tonight in Philadelphia, only $14.00 a ticket. Lots of talent coming out of Australia.

Quoting Morning_after:

You're on. It's a deal.

Just tell me when and where

The Captiol Steps

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HQnbKCs6M[/youtube]

That Modest Mouse song comes off an album called We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Too funny! That, and these lyrics from the song:

...except that I'm too stubborn to stop trying!

P.S. I can sing, but with more enthusiasm than talent unfortunately.

Me too. We could purposfully sound like drunks in a bar.

It's an interesting one. The catch is, as at most jobs, once you move on there is no old job to go back to. They have to fill it when you leave. So, you either do well in the new one or you crater out. If you go. It's one of those blind jumps - you don't know if you'll make it to the other side or just splat on the canyon wall and then sort of slide down all the way to the bottom, like Wylie Coyote.

Thanks. That's part of the problem. There's no "sorta" - it's all the way and take the consequences, or don't. There's no going back once the move is made. Wherein lies the dilemma... take the chance and hope you can make it last for three years, take the chance and lose (and then be in big doo-doo, fiscally), or stay where it's a safe harbor.