Let me guess- she started things by saying, "can I ask you a question?"

wow that hurts, 1



anyway, i looked through my texts last night and i can safely say i this was the first time i don't remember anything from the night before. i dont do good things when that happens, so it seems

Just realized I'm working during the Super Bowl. Fucking great.

i did a couple favors for some guys that looked like tuscan raiders

My name's Neil Schon but people call me Nina Simone. Some people call me Andre Cymone, because I've survived the '80s one time already, and I don't recall them all that fondly.

This song runs through my head every time I see swish post.

The Accord Crosstour proves the Japanese can make a car as ugly as the Aztec.

The guy that lives below me sells a lot of drugs

The director of the original movie that generated those Hitler parodies (The Downfall) thinks they're hilarious:

Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I’m laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn't get a better compliment as a director.

"The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality," he says. "I think it's only fair if now it's taken as part of our history, and used for whatever purposes people like."

I wonder why Asbergers Syndrome is suddenly the pop-culture thing du jour. There's that movie about the AS guy, the President from BSG was playing an Asbergers person on one of the medical dramas, and the new Parenthood show has parents dealing with a kid who has AS. I'm sure I'm forgetting some. I also heard that the term is part of teen slang and stuff "You're going all Asbergers on me", "that's my Asbergers"... I guess it's "interesting" to see people who aren't... neurotypical (man, I hate that term) in functional "normal" lives as opposed to folks who are on the full blown autism spectrum?

It's pretty crazy. My wife's friend has it, and he has two Phd's and is going for his law degree now, all while still publishing papers in his specialties. it is pretty weird it's popping up all over now

As I understand it, the diagnosis didn't become common until the mid 90's, so a lot of grown-ups who managed through life are discovering that there was a term for what they are. In the past, people with AS were treated like people with attention deficit issues. The thing is, those medications and treatments will ease some AS characteristics but not properly or for the long run. We were lucky that my son's neurologist picked up on it.

We just got this really cool wood burning stove but I'm having a helluva time figuring out how to make these presto style logs work in it. Anyways, yesterday I smoked up the glass after making a big wood stove blunder so know I have to clean it and it ain't easy I fear.

Where's mick bayne when you need him?

Isn't Aspergers (like a lot these kinds of things) essentially a constellation of symptoms? If I'm right about that, then isn't also the case the a lot so-called syndromes really just mean some challenges coping with certain expectations. It's only a disorder because society expects certain responses. ADHD for instance only really emerges in large numbers when schools start expecting 7 year olds to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. I can't do that now. But if the child were say helping the family plant crops or hunt rabbits for dinner or even feed chickesn, there wouldn't be any reason to to diagnose the child as anything.

I know there's a spectrum here, and some people really cannot function without sustained interventions. On the other hand, do we really want to diagnose every personality quirk that someone may have as a syndrome?

lol ass burgers

TenuredVulture wrote:Isn't Aspergers (like a lot these kinds of things) essentially a constellation of symptoms? If I'm right about that, then isn't also the case the a lot so-called syndromes really just mean some challenges coping with certain expectations. It's only a disorder because society expects certain responses. ADHD for instance only really emerges in large numbers when schools start expecting 7 year olds to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. I can't do that now. But if the child were say helping the family plant crops or hunt rabbits for dinner or even feed chickesn, there wouldn't be any reason to to diagnose the child as anything.

I know there's a spectrum here, and some people really cannot function without sustained interventions. On the other hand, do we really want to diagnose every personality quirk that someone may have as a syndrome?

It's definitely a lot more than a personality quirk, though.

ADHD is much more than kids not being able to sit in class for 8 hours. The symptoms emerge before kids are even in actual school

td11 wrote:lol ass burgers

haha i get it

The Dude wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Isn't Aspergers (like a lot these kinds of things) essentially a constellation of symptoms? If I'm right about that, then isn't also the case the a lot so-called syndromes really just mean some challenges coping with certain expectations. It's only a disorder because society expects certain responses. ADHD for instance only really emerges in large numbers when schools start expecting 7 year olds to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. I can't do that now. But if the child were say helping the family plant crops or hunt rabbits for dinner or even feed chickesn, there wouldn't be any reason to to diagnose the child as anything.

I know there's a spectrum here, and some people really cannot function without sustained interventions. On the other hand, do we really want to diagnose every personality quirk that someone may have as a syndrome?

It's definitely a lot more than a personality quirk, though.

ADHD is much more than kids not being able to sit in class for 8 hours. The symptoms emerge before kids are even in actual school

All I'm saying is much of what we might consider "mental illness" has a lot to do with social structure and the ensuing expectations.

mental illness is something else. Asberger's is a cognitive disorder

TenuredVulture wrote:

The Dude wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Isn't Aspergers (like a lot these kinds of things) essentially a constellation of symptoms? If I'm right about that, then isn't also the case the a lot so-called syndromes really just mean some challenges coping with certain expectations. It's only a disorder because society expects certain responses. ADHD for instance only really emerges in large numbers when schools start expecting 7 year olds to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. I can't do that now. But if the child were say helping the family plant crops or hunt rabbits for dinner or even feed chickesn, there wouldn't be any reason to to diagnose the child as anything.

I know there's a spectrum here, and some people really cannot function without sustained interventions. On the other hand, do we really want to diagnose every personality quirk that someone may have as a syndrome?

It's definitely a lot more than a personality quirk, though.

ADHD is much more than kids not being able to sit in class for 8 hours. The symptoms emerge before kids are even in actual school

All I'm saying is much of what we might consider "mental illness" has a lot to do with social structure and the ensuing expectations.

A cursory review of popular descriptions of the syndrome provokes worrisome questions, along the line you've suggested.

(I'd engage in a more thorough examination but that might mark me as one of them!!1!)

what does everyone do for their taxes? i normally free file, but i bought a house and have these stocks so i'm just gonna pay someone because i'm not smrt. any recommendations/stay-away-froms?