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

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i'd have called the cops. that's not an unfounded worry - you can get disoriented pretty fast in that kind of cold.

Just remember not to jump in or out of it while the top is still up!

yeah, or when it's moving. hmmm, add, hillbillyboy, moving car, no roof. probably not a good idea. unless there's a safety harness involved.

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you know, i realize that these tests have the scientific credibility of a snake charmer and that the concept itself is not "hard" science, but i have to wonder.

i took one of those online "left brain or right brain" tests and the result came back "balanced brain". it said "extremely rare" and "can cause tremendous indecision in situations where both halves of the brain are simultaneously trying to process a situation in very different manners".

i've gotten weird results on those types of tests before, including ones done at a psych department that left the administrating person (a grad student) scratching her head at the results.

while i'd dearly love to blame my rather frequent periods of confused processing on something as simple as this, i do wonder if there have been any sort of studies of aspies as a group looking at this particular thing (i.e., hemispheric dominance in the brain). anybody seen anything? i'm not getting much in the way of results in lit searches. (i am looking for peer-reviewed material, not blurbs in the popular press. thanks.)

Can't point you to the type sources you're speaking of.

I think the one side brain working thing has been pretty much been shot down. And a good while ago. We use them both.
The spinning figure test has shown up on WP a few times before and I found that it would start spinning one way, change and I'd close it out. I'd return some time later and it would start doing it, sometimes the opposite of what the previous would do.

Something I heard not long ago has me a bit tweaked. They claim that women think more with the left? side which tends to be more emotional control part.

I dunno, I get confused trying to figure out if they mean my left or their left. As long as it doesn't pour out of my ear when I sleep or if I blow my nose, it's all good.

As to you, I can most assuredly and most conferably attest to you being "rare". (I don't think conferably was a word till now. I had to invent a word for your pedigree, you are that "rare".)

uhhh, is that "good" rare or "bad" rare...

or just "medium" rare?

You have something against snake charmers? It's honest work. Snake handlers on the other hand have a serious screw loose. (Waiting for the deluge of hate mail from snake lovers) I dunno maybe because I was raised near snake country I have this bias. Texas I thought was snake country, saw more then I wanted to. You all charmers? I wasn't all that charmed with Texas. Now, Jersey on the other hand didn't have a lot of those concerns, the sqeeters, the ticks, and the local gangs carry you a way long before any ol "rare" snakes came along.

I have formed all of the above observations with extreme care towards scientific bias. It's sound because I said so.

Which side, my left or your left? The answer is yes. Or 42.

Oh. I thought the answer to the meaning of the universe, per se, was "peanut butter." Now which teacher can I blame that mis-information on.... hmmmm.

If you had a teacher named Smith or Jones I'd be lookin in their direction. Everybody knows there aren't any real Smiths or Jones. I had a bunch named Smith and a couple named Jones as well. It was a den of deceitfulness and I was on constant vigil in school for my sanity.

Come to think of it I think there were 4 Smiths and 2 Jones's. Yikes!! Do you see what I see?

well, there was mrs. jones, my latin teacher. older than dirt - we all swore she must have known caesar personally. 4'9" of terror, with her wire-rimmed glasses, white hair pulled back into a bun at the back of her head, and that wooden, metal-tipped pointer. had a raised platform in the middle of the room where she had her desk. turning in a paper was like climbing up into the stratosphere, with the gods.

i wish i could remember the original latin on this, it sounded so spiffy when anyone asked if i could "speak latin":

"latin is a dead language -
it's dead as it can be.
it killed the ancient romans,
and now it's killing me."

Wow. They dropped Latin from the curriculum before I got to it. English was a terror, but then so was Spanish. I only had one English teacher that never hit me. (a Smith, she was so old she had actually taught my parents) The Spanish teacher saw me walk in the door for a second semester of Spanish, grabbed me, took me to the office and told em he's not going to be in her class this time. I wasn't and I was glad.

I dunno maybe Latin would have been ok, but it was taught by a guy and they tend to hit harder. It would have been iffy if I survived it.

If you meet anyone named Smith, it's either an agent program of the Matrix, or a Time Lord in disguise...

Must be past 11:00PM get your Zzzzzs

If we can ever get the stupid thing working, and anyone needs a quick escape from Smith, we do have a Stargate