vw, I forgot to say that the quilt is beautiful! Also, good luck with school today!

Jeepers, Laura! Scary. Get that taken care of and, uim, don't nod off on the Darvocet if you can help it. That sudden pain after seeming okay worries me, though I'm too ignorant to know if it's a right-thinking worry or not.

Go sj with the determination! The middle of teh night neighbor fight is so aggravating. Especially if it's a regular thing. Grrr.

Sounds like a lovely weekend, Andi. I'm glad you two got to enjoy it together.

Meanwhile I believe research is supposed to show that people with unusual/memorable names are supposed to go further in life?

There was a guy on Colbert I bit ago who did some research on how names affect people's lives. He found no demonstrable effect, which says to me - name the kid what you like, they'll manage.

I really like the combination of squares/patterns in your quilt, vw. It looks great. Have a great first day of school.

I don't know - it feels to me like people who go all "oh, I get down too" when depression comes up.

This, exactly. Internet quiz diagnoses make me cranky.

I'm of two minds - if I thought that quiz thingy was accurate, I'd be all for the undiagnosed getting an idea of what to bring up with a doctor from it, but I doubt that it is, especially since I can't make head not tails of my own results. It has taken years, decades really, for my friend's sister to get diagnosed with Asperger's (she's not very functional, really, and was treated for a bunch of other things over the years that didn't do her any good), so I think greater awareness is good, but too broad a brush is useless.

Ahhhggh on the knee, Laura. I'm glad you're getting it seen.

sj, sorry about the asshat neighbors, but go determined you!

vw, your quilting projects are always awesome. And good luck at school!

Names are mutable, and things one can get over. We named one son something ordinary, the other something unusual, and told them both we had no problems if they nicked their names for school. Mr. Ordinary went even ordinarier, Mr. Unusual went militant and dug in his heels and schooled everybody in how to pronounce his name, and refused to answer to nicks. Even so, I still maintain Wolodymr, a perfectly cromulent name in DH's ethnicity, would have been cruel and unusual in Deep South US middle school.

Hooray for a great weekend for the both of you, Andi and Daniel. I'm sorry they're as rare as they seem to be.

I'm of two minds - if I thought that quiz thingy was accurate, I'd be all for the undiagnosed getting an idea of what to bring up with a doctor from it, but I doubt that it is, especially since I can't make head not tails of my own results. It has taken years, decades really, for my friend's sister to get diagnosed with Asperger's (she's not very functional, really, and was treated for a bunch of other things over the years that didn't do her any good), so I think greater awareness is good, but too broad a brush is useless.

I think such quizes can be useful if you take the results with a grain of salt.

From all the quizes I've taken, it sounds like I'm at least borderline aspie. Which if true is good to know, as it would explain certain difficulties I've had in my life. And it would help me in not being mad at myself for various failings, but instead I could just accept the fact that I have certain difficulties in life and that perhaps I can find ways of compensating.

But at this point I'm sorta leaning towards seeing a professional. I guess I don't trust the quizes enough to make a major change to the way I look at my life. But then I wonder how much help exactly would be available to a person such as myself if I was professionally diagnosed as having Asperger's, and would it be worth the money? I suppose I could at least ask a doctor that question.

if I thought that quiz thingy was accurate

That's the thing. A quiz doesn't give a good diagnosis of clinical symptoms. I can tell that this quiz is trying pretty hard to make the distinction between plain old normal non-pathological introversion versus Asperger's, but I still don't think it does a very good job of it.

Not, an online quiz, but a quiz at the end of a Reader's Digest article is what made me realize that what I was dealing with was clinical depression many years ago, and it is what made me seek help. Before that, I really wasn't sure what was wrong with me.

{{{Laura}}}

What Steph said. There's so much more to a diagnosis that anything you can find online.

Even so, I still maintain Wolodymr, a perfectly cromulent name in DH's ethnicity, would have been cruel and unusual in Deep South US middle school.

It might fly in places like Hamtramck, MI but I don't think it would go down well in the south. My mom and my uncle were lucky that my grandparents found names similar in English to the Ukranian versions. Mom was Elizabeth (for her grandmother Elizaveta) and my uncle was Philip (for his grandfather Filyamon.)

{{{Laura}}} I hope you get some relief for that knee.

Andi, I'm glad you guys got a nice, relaxing weekend together.

I'm still waiting on some forms so I can complete our taxes. The nice, big refund we're getting is all promptly going towards debt, sadly.