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Je ne parlais pas Francais.
Je ne sais pas.
Un vign silvouzplait.
Une baguette silvouzplait.
Voulez vouz coucher avec moi, ce coir?

What more do you need?




All out of the top of my head and it's been 8 years since I've had French lessons, if there's mistakes then.. well... @#%^ you.

Also, I'm tipsy. WHEEEEE.

Edited, Oct 19th 2011 10:08pm by Aethien

Well, it must be nice knowing what's wrong with you so they can fix it at least? =x

And French isn't exactly hard, it's just annoying how many verb tenses there are, and you have to learn how to conjugate verbs for all of them. Some of which, are never even used anymore but you still have to learn them anyways!

I'm sure quite a few of you will find this interesting.

What I REALLY found interesting was that more women have **** sex than gay men. Go figure?

And I know 3 people with Asbergers (well, 4 now I guess) :P. In one of whom you can barely see any signs of it, even if you know he has it. You'd fall into this category, I suppose--I can't say I really see any signs of Asbergers in you, so it must be a minor case.

The other two have pretty severe cases, though in different ways. Both are highly-functioning. One's manifests as a complete lack of social skills, but a propensity to engage in social activities. He'll come up to you while working in the library and talk at full volume, and won't stop until you tell him to go away. Which makes you feel like a d*ck (even when you say it as nicely as you can), but he'll literally stand there talking to you for 3 hours if you don't.

The other was the opposite--he completely avoids social contact whenever possible, and will get super stressed if forced to actually interact with people. He's also prone to fits of rage, which is rather unfortunate--he ended getting kicked out of campus housing because he started throwing chairs and breaking sh*t. He was incredibly intelligent, though, in that way that means he's getting perfect scores on exams where the class average is a 30. So he'll at least get picked up by a company who has policies in place designed to accommodate autistic needs.

Really goes to show partly why designing autistic-friendly regulations/policies/whatever is so hard. It's really a case-by-case sort of thing. Luckily, mild-Asbergers isn't going to be any kind of significant disadvantage for you. Other than people asking you if you're like Rain Man, that is.

I hate to play the olde man curmudgeon card, but why is absolutely every character trait considered a mental disorder nowadays? It's like we're trying to remove responsibility for absolutely everything in our lives.

grumblegrumblebackinmydaywedidnthaveadhdwehaddaydreamers...

Fix it... tee hee.
Can't fix it, it just means that I'll probably get money from the government to help deal with the things I have issues with.


I had a very interesting conversation with someone who also has Asperger this week about how disturbing it is when "your" brand of milk (or any other product) isn't in stock in the supermarket.
And how that leaves me standing there for 5 minutes, completely confused.
It's one of those small things that other people don't get but when you talk to someone else who's autistic they completely understand it.






Really, I can't describe how much that situation annoys me.
It's just wrong and it bothers me for as long as I have that product in my house, every time I use it.
Really, really wrong. And awful.

I think normal people can likely understand, as long as they look at it within the right context. You care about things they don't, but they still have those same emotional reactions to other things.

For instance, my favorite brand of pen got redesigned a few years ago. And I was really attached to it. The pens still wrote the same, and largely felt the same, but the change still bothers me. I spent about 10 minutes in the pen aisle after that, trying to decide what pens to buy.

Definitely not the same thing, especially because this was something I had reason to care about and I'm sure my reaction wasn't on the same level as an autistic one. But by thinking about that, and reminding myself that just because I don't have reason to care about small details with everything, someone with Asbergers does. I still can't relate, but it helps me understand a little bit better.

It's more than a character trait when without help you can't function.
And yeah, without my psychologist and other help, I cannot function in society.

No offense intended, meng. But the description of the condition is so vague that anyone can have it. I mean, I have trouble sometimes counting but I don't think its dyscalculia, you know? I'm manipulative, cunning, self-serving, have a grandiose sense of self, a severe lack of remorse for like 90% of my actions, and pretty poor impulse control but I don't believe myself to be a sociopath.

Like I said, it's not that I don't believe in the condition, just that the symptoms are so generically described that essentially everyone has it.

It's not uncommon for people with Asbergers to also have ADD, so it's possible that he was just being medicated for that.

As for the statistics, I wish the article had clarified the condom usage statistic with relationship to the partner. There's DEFINITELY still a problem in the gay community with condom usage, but I want to know how many of the cases in that study were condomless sex with a trusted partner in a monogomous relationship.

Honestly, you should really still use a condom in that case. Even if you aren't thinking about STIs, it's not hard to see that **** sex isn't hugely hygenic (even if you, ahem, clean it out first). But if you really trust your partner (or at least trust them enough that you know they'd use a condom if they cheated on you), the STI aspect isn't so bad.

Though it's never a sure thing. My uncle died from AIDs, having gotten it after his boyfriend cheated on him. Frankly, I don't really intend to ever engage in **** sex without a condom. And, honestly, partners shouldn't see that as a lack of trust--there are plenty of reasons to use one even if you are confident that your partner isn't carrying an STI.

Yeah, that's gotta be tough. :(

Also I share pigtails assessment. Whether or not something is treatable it's nice to have a name to go with it at least.

The other day, there was a package of tampons on the kitchen table. I asked one of my roommates whose they were (their periods are synced up now, so I get to deal with two irritated women at the same time ).

Her response, "You can't tell?"

My response: .

I very happily know no details about their vaginas. It's like she expected me to figure out whose they were by their personalities or something...