And in a separate comment- I AM SO BORED!!! It is my first day back in the office after a week of theatre, and I want to pluck my eyelashes out one by one.
sara- I also thought it was an animal who attacked the woman, until you mentioned it.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 18, 2011 5:12:57 am PDT #3807 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Jessica - Apr 18, 2011 5:19:25 am PDT #3808 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gud, my thoughts are with your family.
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2011 5:21:28 am PDT #3809 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gud, You and yours are in my thoughts.
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2011 5:23:42 am PDT #3810 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Compelling Theory About Introversion, Extroversion, and Autism
In her master's thesis (read it here) Grimes posits that introversion is not the opposite of extroversion, but that they are two different traits altogether. And she proposes something that has come up here from time to time: That introversion actually is on the autism scale.
Grimes' thesis explains that if you take each of the factors this new model proposes and follow it along a continuum to their most extreme expressions, they correlate with the widely used Baron-Cohen Autism Spectrum Quotient.
Depending on how much we have of each factor (and how they interact with other personality traits), we can be simply introverted or, moving along the continuum, have Asperger's syndrome or, moving further yet, have autism.
Huh.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2011 5:29:09 am PDT #3811 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure most kinds of human behavior are on a spectrum that ends with some kind of disorder. I mean, right? There's being sad today and there's clinical depression. There's being effective and there's being manic.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2011 5:35:42 am PDT #3812 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That's interesting because I heard a theory just the other day (on SGU, so I'm sure you did too) that would remove Aspergets from the autism spectrum and stick it on the extreme end of "normal" introversion. (Leaving the autism spectrum intact, but acknowledging that it's a separate developmental disorder of which introversion is only the most visible symptom.)
Theodosia - Apr 18, 2011 5:38:31 am PDT #3813 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Here's hoping that getting the overdose caught before it caused too much damage will be the start of better times for him!
I think I got less than five hours solid sleep last night. Good thing I only work 4-8 today, so I will have the chance to get a nap in. Not at all sleepy now. sigh.
Theodosia - Apr 18, 2011 5:40:22 am PDT #3814 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
FWIW, I used to think I was introverted, but it was social anxiety holding me back. Chemically corrected, I'm the (happier) mild extrovert I was destined to be.
smonster - Apr 18, 2011 5:42:14 am PDT #3815 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Very glad to hear that he's okay, Gud. Attempted suicide is very scary for everyone.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2011 5:46:15 am PDT #3816 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dylan just got invited to his first drop-off birthday party!!! Woo hooooo!! An afternoon off!