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

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I loved the teddy bear hamster I had in college. At night it would leave its cage in the closet, scuttle along the wall to a drape, climb that to the dining table, cross the table, down the other drape, along some more walls and doors to the bookcase made of concrete blocks and heavy lumber scavenged from the Columbia River, climb up a couple levels, drop off at the other end, climb up a bed sheet, cross above our heads, down the bed sheet, and back into his cage. He did this once an hour all night long.

Arnold Schwartzenhamster is a nice little hamster. He hasn't let us pick him up yet (he's not ready) but he comes over when we come into the room and he will take seeds out of our hands. He seems to like to watch us, too. And he's definitely going white.

Tennyson the rat is much more user-friendly. He loves to come out and to be scritched, will do tricks for food, and likes to watch tv. He gets annoyed if you block it when he's into a program. But he's getting on in years, so, while we think he'll be around this Christmas, there's quite a bit of doubt about next year.

It's raining, it's pouring
the Old Man is snoring.
Bumped his head
and he went to bed,
and he can't get up til the morrrrrning.

Have a good weekend, folks.

Well, let's see.
the kid marched in a parade on sunday, when the rain was coming down sideways (we could hear the marine corps band even when we couldn't see 'em through the rain!). she got soaked, even through her pancho.

her cell phone is now drying out (it was in her purse, which was under her arm under the pancho) in a jar full of white rice (will pull moisture out of anything) and we're hoping.

speaking of hoping, here's wishing you all a hopefully happy thanksgiving....survival of family things, a good meal, and a warm & dry place to be.

Went to a local restaurant and had some and with for dessert.....

Happy Thanksgiving.

Oh, how I love turkey leftovers. Today I ate the last of the stuffing.
I've started sewing on a picture quilt sorta for a grandaughter. Bets on whether or not I finish it before Christmas? I've held onto the pieces for 2 and a half years.

I recently learned that the phrase Neuro-Typical is an insult. Who woulda thunk it? So now I need to purge my speech of the evil term and replace it with non-spectrum.

not here it is , people simply don't know what it is (let alone autism)

Hi everyone.
"When I was a boy, back when the crust of the earth was starting to cool and dinosaurs roamed the earth..."

My late father used to sometimes say that, along with many other funny things. Being an enlisted man in the Army Air Forces, then the U.S. Air Force, and finally the Air Force Reserves (he flew as a flight engineer in WW2, Korea, and VietNam) , if he let loose an audible fart he would say "Colonel Who?"

I am fifty years old now. I was nearly forty years old when I first heard about Asperger's. I self-diagnosed as soon as I read the list of symptoms, and I have been officially diagnosed three times in the past ten years (for different agencies and after moving to a different state). I was finally set up with the Developmental Disabilities branch of the local public health department which is where I should gone decades ago. Decades ago though, they might not have accepted me. Also, if not for the decades of falling through the cracks in society and health care, the decades of social rejection, sensory overload, depression, isolation and extreme loneliness, if not for all that I wouldn't be who I am today: The Bicycling Guitarist.

This is an awesome web site. Kudos to Alex for starting it, and to all the members who participate. I am both impressed and intimidated that this site has 40,000+ members and that sometimes 1000+ are online here. It's good to have so much participation and sharing. It's annoying sometimes though to post something and check in a few hours to find one's post two or three pages back in the thread with no replies yet and now buried from view.

The only constant is change, and no thing lasts forever. I should take the view that my posts are like the colored sand paintings done by some Buddhist monks that emphasize the transitory nature of physical existence. They spend days painstakingly building them grain by grain, then sweep them up and dispose of the sand in a respectful manner.

Anyway, it's good to see a bunch of dinosaurs here. Of course dinosaurs didn't all go extinct. Some evolved into the birds of today! I think of that every time I see a bird, that I am watching a descendent of the group T. Rex belonged to. I used to tell my ex-stepson when we bought turkey that we were getting dinosaur meat. He had an uncle who had an ostrich farm, and it is easy to see them as dinosaurs when one is close to them. Ostrich eggs are huge too.

I always wanted a pet ostrich until the day I got close to one and discovered how terrifying they are.

hmm... I call NT's Neuro-Typicals all the time now. No one has been offended by me doing that.

I think if I called the NTs around me NTs they woudn't have a clue what I was talking about....

Lurking ....Stimming .....and bumping the thread....

Countdown to Christmas. I got my non-verbal daughter a singing, dancing teddy bear. She loves those things. Too bad her caregivers hate those things and keep removing the batteries. But she'll have fun with it for a while.