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

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Thanks for the link NAN...

I thought the neandertal articles were interesting, given RDOS interest in the possible aspie link with them.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21362048/


On another note. A few days ago I found one of my bio sisters email addresses and gave her a link to read about AS because I thought(we only met briefly about 8 years ago) she had some of the same traits that I do. She looked up some information and said she certainly thinks she and her 16 year old son "fit" and would be interested in taking the on-line test so am going to send her the RDOS test. I think another of my sisters and mom are "aspie" but they are such hermits(and no internet) that I can't seem to interest them in taking the test...they just "am who I am" and could care less about what fancy label experts put on the "am" . I wish I knew these people better but both are to shy to talk on the phone (as am I) and seem to have no interst in human communication, relative or not.

Wow Grommit! Is that your track? Whoever the kid is, he is so lucky.

Enjoyed all the videos as I sipped my morning coffee. I was quite blase about announcing to all that we were the last generation a few weeks ago, but this week I don't want to think about an ending of any sort... grandkids and all. Sigh! Oh well- page 901 is close to ending a cycle I suppose.

900 pages of wisdom and sage advice. Humm and what have we learned? Let us ask a well known person what he learned.

Shhh, he's thinking.

Get back in the corner W and don't come out till you have an exit strategy.
He won't be back, he doesn't have a clue how to get out of a corner.

Probably the wrong one to ask and I don't know what he's doing here to begin with. I don't recall inviting him.

I laughed out loud at that one, PP!

And on the other hand, Merle, I'm 26 and never touched a drop of and alcoholic beverages.

I think that AA and some councilors are locked into the hype and can over reach with what they define as an alcoholic. It's like some of them are on a holy crusade. You know that old, nothing like a reformed drunk thing. Cripes I've seen many that would have fit the bill they present and they just plain weren't, but in the strictest sense of their definition they were. I was, no doubt about it, and I even knew it while i drank myself to death at some point. I was under no illusion, but at the root of it, I had no real idea why I was doing it.

Now, for the most part I think I have it figured out and just stick with the "just say no", don't pick it up to begin with. Hell I hate the feeling now. For some it works, it is a drug, the only reason it isn't used as one by the big pharmaceutical company's is they can't regulate it and they are still trying. It never treats you exactly the same from day to day and even if it did for me, it wouldn't for someone else. I was seriously stumped when I was asked that by a guy many many years ago, why don't they use it as a drug. Man that guy was sharp, he told me way back then I was self medicating and I didn't know what he meant by that either. But people do and can drink, I just can't. And I still believe it saved my life, had to make it to a point some years ago when I stopped (I don't keep count) and I have some serious doubts if I would have.

He also asked me how I think other people perceive me and I didn't know. Now mind you this wasn't the full blown drunk I became. I just did not know and couldn't answer him. Yeah he was a sharp one.