Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
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.
Heh. My dad got saddled with "Igor" and hated it as a child, always said he would change his name as soon as he was 18.
Which he did. To add "Olegovich" as a legal middle name.
My grandfather was named Weed - Guido on his birth certificate but always called Weed because they lived near the city of the same name when he was born (same way his brother got called Reno) and he legally changed his name at some point.
High tolerance for unusual names in my family.
My dad was named after his grandfather so had his great-grandmother's maiden name as his middle name. And he hated it, but really -- it's not that bad. (Seaver - see? Pretty ordinary.)
Laura, OUCHIE!
I am still sick like a sick thing. And, I am at school. My teacher is away at a conference, so I *had* to be here to teach classes today. If I still feel icky tomorrow, I am totally calling in sick. I haven't felt this sick in years.
it feels to me like people who go all "oh, I get down too" when depression comes up.
Yes... It's such a painful thing to figure out too. To try and get people who haven't dealt with it themselves try to understand what is happening with you.
It's probably really hard to figure out on both sides. People can't identify with things that are completely unknowable to them.
