scumble on 15/2/2014 at 15:38
Quote Posted by PigLick
seriously you're doing this? I just mash the keyboard and hope it all turns out ok. I rarely proof read my posts, or maybe I did it just to annoy you.
so yeh chalk it down to lazy typing.
Sorry mate, it was another one of my misguided attempts at humour, and also trying to make a point about Aspies and detail. Wasn't meant to be an insult, it's more silly that it bothers me so much.
Again, people can hate bad spelling punctuation and not be autistic. Outward behaviour on its own doesn't really signify any particular condition. I suppose that's what I was getting at with people saying they have sensitivity to sound.
scumble on 15/2/2014 at 15:41
Quote Posted by nickie
Do you correct a typo when you come across one you made in a post 10 years ago?
Lovely to see you here again, scumble, you've been missed. :)
I write code for a living, and I will correct a mis-spelled variable name even though it is not related to the task I have to do.
Ryan Smith on 15/2/2014 at 15:48
Aspie here. Also comes with ADD. Batteries not included.
gkkiller on 15/2/2014 at 17:07
I got a 26 or something on the test when I took it a few days ago. No Asperger's for me, and I guess that's a good thing since it sounds difficult to live with looking at these posts. Not impossible, but difficult. My sympathies lie with you.
On a related note, I've long suspected I have some compulsive disorder for ages. When I was younger I used to step on the tiles in our house in a certain pattern, and I imagined my every step as a file in a computer and every time I broke the pattern I'd have to 'delete' my last step. Then it progressed to climbing stairs in a pattern, and I had to plan my steps up a staircase depending on which step had a railing, and then everything had to be 'balanced'. If I press a button with my left hand, I press it again with my right; then, to 'balance' it, I press it once again with my right and again with my left. It's not just buttons - it extends to even scratching my ear. It makes typing a pain - I group letters on the keyboard and I can not press one letter without hammering on every other letter in the group. Press A? Gotta hit S and D too. To type normally, I have to have one finger poised above Backspace and type extra fast to compensate for the time I lose deleting. It's a pain.
Unlike people with 'real' OCD, though, I don't obsess over thoughts for hours together and I don't believe anything bad will happen if I don't keep up the patterns. It's just physically impossible for me not to follow the patterns. I do it unconsciously and notice only in the midst of doing it.
Renzatic on 15/2/2014 at 17:16
Quote Posted by dethtoll
the reason they call it the clap is, well, how else are you gonna get the pus out
If that were the case, wouldn't they call it the peels instead?
PigLick on 16/2/2014 at 02:56
Quote Posted by scumble
Sorry mate, it was another one of my misguided attempts at humour, and also trying to make a point about Aspies and detail. Wasn't meant to be an insult, it's more silly that it bothers me so much.
Again, people can hate bad spelling punctuation and not be autistic. Outward behaviour on its own doesn't really signify any particular condition. I suppose that's what I was getting at with people saying they have sensitivity to sound.
haha dont worry all my attempts at humour are misguided.
Pyrian on 16/2/2014 at 05:02
Quote Posted by scumble
I write code for a living, and I will correct a mis-spelled variable name even though it is not related to the task I have to do.
I write code for a living, but in a highly regulated environment, and if I find even the most glaring bug in something unrelated to what I'm doing, the most I'm allowed to do is file a bug report. :mad: Drives me bonkers sometimes.
Shug on 16/2/2014 at 13:57
Quote Posted by faetal
Re the "not enjoying small talk but doing it because you know it's expected" thing. I do that too. Not because I don't empathise with others, I just have a
really short attention span and unless something is actually interesting to me, I find it extremely hard to stay on the rails and not glaze over, which of course people always notice.
I feel people might read too much into this. For context, I scored 10 on that test linked from page 1.
That said, making smalltalk with other people can be excruciating. Plenty of people who like to chat aren't going to be very good at it. Unless you are fortunate to strike a topic of mutual interest early it'll frequently be by the numbers, uninteresting bullshit.
SubJeff on 16/2/2014 at 14:02
I just change the subject.
faetal on 16/2/2014 at 15:11
It's not helped by not being into much of the stuff which people use for small talk. The worst is when people try to talk sport to me.
"Did you see the game the other day?"
"Sorry no, not really my thing"
More often than not, that's followed with something along the lines of "really?!" or "why not?" and I almost end up feeling like I have to come up with an excuse or something.
