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17 Feb 2008, 8:32 pm

one last thing you absolutely must know before I go to bed and leave you to fend for yourself are these five things: Hartz and Reika never follow any rules whatsoever. And Nannarob is a reformed lurker.



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17 Feb 2008, 9:58 pm

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one last thing you absolutely must know before I go to bed and leave you to fend for yourself are these five things: Hartz and Reika never follow any rules whatsoever. And Nannarob is a reformed lurker.


Chuck did it!


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17 Feb 2008, 9:58 pm

if anyone needs a refresher of why we are all here. . .

here



http://aq.server8.org/

by Sasha Baron-Cohen's cousin!



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17 Feb 2008, 10:12 pm

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if anyone needs a refresher of why we are all here. . .

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http://aq.server8.org/

by Sasha Baron-Cohen's cousin!


8O I score 42.

I saw a new doctor last week when I was sick. I told him about the medical history of me and my kids to see if he would be able to take us all on. I told him about the kids' having Aspergers. He paused and asked, "Were you diagnosed first or were they?". I didn't say anything about me having AS or ADHD. He said that from the first impression he got when he saw me walk in and when he entered the office, it didn't surprise him when I said the kids were AS and he assumed I was diagnosed as well.

There you go, Nannarob! I'll be getting on that.


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17 Feb 2008, 10:16 pm

Chuck wrote:
one last thing you absolutely must know before I go to bed and leave you to fend for yourself are these five things: Hartz and Reika never follow any rules whatsoever. And Nannarob is a reformed lurker.


:roll: The limited maths skills we have, I believe are stored in my side ......


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17 Feb 2008, 11:24 pm

Well, I got a 43.


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17 Feb 2008, 11:30 pm

I knew we were "sisters", Hartz!!


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18 Feb 2008, 4:35 am

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(more hints: Jon, Lemon, Nan, Laurie, and Duncansbass are ca-razy. 8O )



what ?!?
and i think i can trust you, and share my deepest secrets in life, and really be myself and all
and you say i am CRAZY to people you only just met ...
8O

where can i go now? i'll be lonely for ever without you all ... :cry:


----> :arrow: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



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18 Feb 2008, 5:00 am

It looklike you found a good doctor, Blessed - one who knows about aspergers. That is going to save you a lot of trouble.


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18 Feb 2008, 6:56 am

lemon wrote:
...what ?!?
and i think i can trust you, and share my deepest secrets in life, and really be myself and all
and you say i am CRAZY to people you only just met ...
8O

where can i go now? i'll be lonely for ever without you all ... :cry:


----> :arrow: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


8O I meant that with all kinds of love and in the best way possible!! ! :P
Thank goodness you are crazy!! ! Wouldn't love you otherwise. :wink: . :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
(PS: I want more deep secrets. In particular: when you go to the beach, do you stare at the sun shining off the water, or the tiny shells in the sand?)

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... :roll: The limited maths skills we have, I believe are stored in my side ......

I'll have you know I am George W. Bush's personal statistician. :nerdy:

My constant exposure to NTs and skills development techniques allow me to bring in a respectable score of 40. 20 years ago, I'd have scored near 50 I believe. In another 50 years, I believe I can reduce my score to 38. I shall do my utmost.



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18 Feb 2008, 7:32 am

No Chuck. It won't take that long. I scored a 38.

I decided to try to answer the questions according to my learned behaviours. E.g. "Do you enjoy meeting new people?" -> "Definately agree". Unbelievably stressful, difficult, imprecise, floundering, mysterious (and as many other "I haven't a clue if I did that right" sort of adjectives as you can think of), but I have to be honest and say that I have learnt how to enjoy it (I think).

And I go for the grains of sand on a beach.

I remember a dream, from when I was a teenager, I think, which was the first dream in which I could definitely state that I dream in colour. There's a sand dune beach, called "Camber Sands", on the South coast near London. My parents had often taken me there. I hadn't been for some years. I found myself up on the dunes, and I zoomed in on the sand, down to the individual grains, with their incredible spectral colourations. Great fun. I'm sure I never saw the sand that clearly in real life, other than under a microscope.


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18 Feb 2008, 8:41 am

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w


the shells, obsessively



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18 Feb 2008, 9:32 am

the sparkle of the sun on the water, then trying to determine the exact edge of where the sea and sky meet. That one always eluded me until one clear moonlit night I was stunned by the moonlight across the water ended right at the curvature of the earth. It was so clear I got vertigo thinking I was going to fall right off!

Soon after that I started seeing things in three dimentions. Like looking at the stars and seeing some closer and others further away. I had never been aware of that before. Everything had always looked flat like a scene painted on a wall for a play. I was 19.

Merle



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18 Feb 2008, 11:00 am

Chuck wrote:
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...I mentioned congrats on the first anniversary topic thread. For this forum is it supposed to be stream of conciousness thinking/writing? Sometimes I do not know what to say unless there is a actual subject. Could Sinsboldy or Yowlingcat brief me on this? I will be back. I have to go post elsewhere.


...not Merle, nor Yowler, but couldn't help but jump in. Now, let's see,.... hrmrph, hrahh, hrrrrm, ....let's see, ...rules n' such ...erm, topics, ...ahhh here we go!! ! :D :

...best as I remember one Main Topic has been why are muffins good, and why do they like to be ate? Postie braved the loneliness of space to find the answer and never returned, but sent back actual photographic proof of Spam in space and fossilized proof of a shooting star. If you actually believe in the existence of "space", "stars", and "fossils". :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: Were it not for my having once eaten Spam (ok, more than once) I wouldn't have believed any of it. What does he take me for?!? Or where? Or why? Ha I say! Good muffins?!? Never turn your back on them, I say. Except Thursdays.

Ok - jump in whenever you want to! :lol: Hope this helped. Lost? Lost?!? Humphh!! ! I know, I know - Lau's rules are always too confusing. His way of 'no way' and demands of 'no demands' can make one crazy.

(A hint: Sinsboldly = Merle).

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Thank you Chuck, et al. I am not that good with the chitchat. I scored 44 on that quiz. This was no surprise.

Even amongst Aspies I am an Aspie. I would not say I was shy, just socially out in the out field. I guess I am just clueless, without rules and boundaries and borders and fences and locks and routines and maybe routemasters, too, that I need for reference.

When I was a kid I got kicked out of conversations when I tried to join groups. I was wanted for some activities because I was an extra body. Consequently I have been loathe to join in, but hey, I am used to being the odd one out. So here is the odd one IN.


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18 Feb 2008, 11:26 am

Welcome, sartresue.

Pull up a chair.

Sit on it. (Quite a popular pastime for some here.)

Hide under it. (Also very popular here, although mass congregating under tables is probably more favoured.)

Have a cookie. (But naturally, watch out for the green ones. I think they're Postie's.)


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18 Feb 2008, 12:23 pm

sartresue wrote:
When I was a kid I got kicked out of conversations when I tried to join groups. I was wanted for some activities because I was an extra body. Consequently I have been loathe to join in, but hey, I am used to being the odd one out. So here is the odd one IN.

be welcome, there is no pressure here,
i sometimes only communicate with smileys for months, that seemed to be ok for everyone here.
and yes, have a cookie :D