Re: Meta, and all the things!

On 5/16/12 5:22 AM, Bernard Peek wrote:
> On 11/03/12 23:12, Jax Goss wrote:
>> 1. It is so frikkin' cool to have TH clogging up my inbox again. I
>> missed you crazy folk. :D
>
> Yeah, 1100 unread messages as of yesterday. I'm catching up.
>
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>>
>> I missed a bunch of threads what with happy birthdaying my little guy
>> this weekend, and general slowness and lack of quick responsiveness,
>> so allow me to do a run down.
>>
>> * The first book I remember reading was one of those read-along Disney
>> things. Alice in Wonderland, the Disney version. "I'm late, I'm late,
>> for a very important date"... Somewhere between following along with
>> the tape, I figured out how to read the words. I could read when I
>> started school, and, yes, to my teachers' credit, I was always
>> encouraged to read above my age.
>>
>> (Which led to me asking my mother at the ripe old age of about 7 what
>> a "period" was, because I'd been reading Judy Blume. But that's a
>> whole nother tale.)
>>
>> * I do not have Aspergers. I am what nowdays they call "pre-diabetic",
>> but that's about it.
>
> That's like being a little bit pregnant. By the time you get diagnosed
> as "pre-diabetic" you have probably had diabetes for ten years. Email me
> offlist if you want any tips. I've been diagnosed for over ten years.
>
> I'm definitely Aspie or similar. Typical geek, although there's no way
> for an adult to be diagnosed as autistic around here. I manage software
> developers and try to hire Aspies if I can.

Thank God another mature one! I am diagnosed (at age 63, about five
years ago, and the way that I _was_ diagnosed was highly unusual
circumstances, including a PhD who wanted to gather data for a paper on
adult Aspies. I was delighted about it, because it explained so many
oddities about the previous 63 years (had only even _heard_ of it
shortly before that).

It has its' unexpected downsides, though. When you tell people about
it, they think you're trying to "make excuses" for bad behavior (I
wonder what excuse Mal uses?), so it becomes a moral thing somehow
(which I always kind of suspected, with the typical Aspie mistakes I
made in trying to fit in with people, that there was something that I
couldn't smell that was a "stink" around me, aka "immoral"). Another
downside in trying to fit in with the people on the Aspie/Autie boards
is that they seem to be about 95% teenagers and twenty-somethings, with
the typical hormonal irrationality and blinders of that age group. That
happens, of course, because most of those of us who are older _aren't_
diagnosed, and just muddled through, while those who know that they are
are picked up in early grade school, if not younger. The next few years
should be very interesting, what with these kids growing up knowing
instead of trying their best to fit in and getting heavy psychological
complexes from not quite being able to.

But somewhere in those 100 messages you'll run across the area where I
was told to stuff it about that, as I have been on other Lists with
different focuses.



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>> * I am also not left handed. But my grade 1 teacher believed me to be
>> dyslexic because I drew my bs and ds and ss backwards. Turns out I was
>> closer to ambidextrous, and my brain was getting confused. I can still
>> use scissors with both hands. But definitely right handed. Left-footed
>> though, strangely.
>
> Definitely right-handed here.
>
>>
>> * I identify, if anything, as secular humanist. I had a brief
>> Christian phase when I was about 11, but I got over it.
>
> Agnostic here, although taught by Jesuits so you don't really want to
> debate religion with me.
>
>>
>> * I am named for my great grandmother (my second name is "Mary").
>> There is something of a tendency in my family to use family names, but
>> it is haphazard at best. My child's second name is my father's first
>> name. Had he been a girl, he'd have been called Kathleen, which, as it
>> happens is both my grandmother and my husband's grandmother's name. It
>> probably would have been a second name.
>
> As far as I know I'm the first Bernard in our family for at least four
> generations. I have no idea why.
>
>>
>> What else did you guys talk about?
>>
>> Oh! Buffy! *sigh* I miss Buffy. Nothing has really captured my heart
>> the same way since Buffy. Doctor Who might. If I ever get around to
>> watching the newer ones. I saw up to the end of Tennant. And then
>> stopped.
>
> I saw the first episode of the revival and haven't looked at another since.
>
>>
>> I suppose I might get back to it one of these days.
>>
>> Right. I think that brings me up to speed. I'm gonna make coffee.
>> Anyone want some?
>
> Mine's brewing now.
>
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