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10 Jun 2016, 7:24 pm

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Skibum is going to win the lottery, then she is coming on a trip downunder to teach me to ski!
You know it! :D I would love to teach you to ski. We would have a great time! One of my best friends from ski school where I live is from Australia and she started her teaching career at Thredbo. Australia is the only continent I have never been to other than Antarctica. I would love to visit. I hear it is beautiful and NZ, I also hear, is magnificent. I would love to ski there as well.


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10 Jun 2016, 8:57 pm

Talking about food
Here we have this food called "Pastelon".(past-teh- lone)
It can be made with various things but the most popular is plantains.It's like the Puertorican Lasagna.


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11 Jun 2016, 1:19 am

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That place looks Arctic or Subarctic to me.


Hehe. Not quite. You get high enough up in the mountains, and it's like this, never mind how far north it is. I love it. It's freedom.


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11 Jun 2016, 7:20 am

Did you get your Beauty Sleep?

I find the place to be stark in a scenic sense. There's a certain poetry in what I see.

It looks like some scenes from Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.



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11 Jun 2016, 7:55 am

Yes, but now I'll be busy for a while. Will be back in a week or so.

Have a nice time, everyone :D


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11 Jun 2016, 8:06 am

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I was actually told, not by husband but by someone else. I was very receptive.


Thank you skibum for the thoughtful reply, your story is encouraging. And you're right, I do find it fascinating and even though I don't identify with a majority of the traits I do relate to a lot of the social ones because I am introverted and have anxiety. Its very interesting how lots of traits seem to overlap.
This would be a great way to break it in to your husband. Share the traits you have and how you relate to them as you are learning. See if he starts to open up and start a dialogue. My husband was eager to share how the traits related to him and even said, "Maybe I have Asperger's." I don't think my husband has it because I don't think he meets all the required diagnostic criteria but it is possible since I am not a diagnostician, I would not be able to tell completely with him. But I think for sure, my husband has something even if it's BAP. But sharing how you relate to the traits and symptoms might get your husband talking about the subject. And if he gets interested in learning and researching, particularly if he is Autistic, he will see it in himself.


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11 Jun 2016, 8:09 am

I have to go too. I will be back next week. See you all then.


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11 Jun 2016, 8:35 am

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All in all, I wouldn't book your Aspie ticket on just being introverted/anxious I guess would be my point.


Sorry, I think I wasn't articulating myself well. I didn't mean that I thought my anxiety placed me on the spectrum. Rather I was just responding to someone else who was giving advice and I was agreeing with them that I do find AS innately fascinating to research, outside of the personal reason I am researching it. Anyway, sorry if that comment came off uninformed or insensitive.



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11 Jun 2016, 2:24 pm

I'm going to have Quinoa noodles for supper. :heart:


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