Extra Lessons In Tempting Essentials

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

:eek::eek: that sound like DS2 logic...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: he also brought leap years into the equation, but I can't remember what the thinking was now

I know exactly about leap years. But it's too late in the night now. I'll get back to my Avs S!! Some other time perhaps for the details on leap years!:):rotfl:

Savvybuyer

zippydooda wrote: »

yes, i just googled it. it was from memory a long time ago. well in the year 2000 actually as that was one that was the exception to the rule that was the exception to the rule.
ill go back and edit;)

No need. I'm sure I'll explain it very very fully later:D!

aau1

zippydooda wrote: »

yes, i just googled it. it was from memory a long time ago. well in the year 2000 actually as that was one that was the exception to the rule that was the exception to the rule.
ill go back and edit;)

I remember in maths class years and years ago my teacher telling us about the 100 year rule. i was looking forward to the year 2000 and the confused look on all my friends faces when there was no leap year........until he told us 2000 was in fact an exception!!!!! :mad:

Same maths teacher also gave us a brainteaser. He asked us to count up all the numbers from 1 to 100 and said it should be possible for each of us to do it in a few seconds and with no calculator. Any ideas how?

zagubov

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Wow!!

But.. why???
Obviously pasta is his new 'special interest'. I'm sorry that he's worse (or better) than me.

Has he got a photographic memory?? I wish I had, to some extent. In fact I'd rather like to have synaesthesia - not the kind that causes any sensory problems or pain or discomfort or anything like that - it's where one sense triggers off another - such as hearing music appears inherently to have colour. Or each number has a specific colour every time you see it, and inherently. So, for example, number 1 is white, number 2 is blue, number 3 you always see as orange. I wish I had that - harmless but a totally different perception. (The colours in synaesthetics vary from each person with it to the next. It's a very rare, and fascinating, condition - but some people with it do suffer real sensory problems, some don't I gather (and I'd quite have liked to have had the latter).)

Now, number 26, that's definitely blue then green! Apologies if you have the condition and I'm making fun of it. Nothing untoward intended.

There are people who suffer from both Asperger's and synaesthesia and have real sensory problems with the two. It's certainly not fun, just as much as spectrum conditions such as autism and Asperger's (without synaesthesia, either alone or with co-morbids) affect sufferers differently.

As many know my DS has Aspergers but I can't identify any particular compensatory talent he has ( a photographic memory might be useful!). Certainly doesn't have synaesthesia.

aau1

Savvybuyer wrote: »

No need. I'm sure I'll explain it very very fully later:D!

Your explanation will probably see us until the next leap day :rotfl:

David.

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I know - and your DS, unfortunately, is more along the spectrum than I am.

(It must be the different types of learning that each of the maths tests has. Perhaps one of them is testing more abstract skills which, unfortunately, he doesn't really have.)

I just hope he gets the support he needs. It's such a difficult dilemma and I feel for anyone with learning disabilities. It must be hard.

That said, they've never known anything else. To them, it's normal. Maybe it's the people around them, who don't lack those things, that it affects more.

For example, I can't read body language (facial expressions that aren't really obvious). If someone is smiling, I know they're happy, and if someone sticks up a V-sign gesture, I know what they mean, but beyond that...

I never knew there were any body language signals constantly around me from everyone. I thought the way I saw things was normal, because I never expereienced how anyone else ever perceives the world. Now, knowing more explicitly that I am not picking up body language, and that I have Asperger's, I can now detect signatures that something must be there, which I am not receiving, although I cannot work out what that something, that I am missing, could be. Before I knew, there were no signatures there - it was simply how the world came across to me. Just people's words, movements, communication, no body language and no-one else ever gets any body language at all (or so I thought) - didn't realise you all had a communication receiver and a broadcaster that I don't have.

I could of course learn it all. But it would still be out-of-sync, not subconsciously perceived in advance of its transmission as it is with 'normal' people, to be honest, I'm not interested, it's just too hard for me to begin to learn, you can't teach an old dog etc., and I've got through life pretty well so far without needing to know. For all the effort it would take - and then exhausting me out in social situations from thenceforth - as opposed to just getting on with them and ignoring body language that I don't see - I think would be worse if I tried to learn it. No! It's only trying to make me conform to the rest of society - and to 'cure' me - which can't be done - I am not doing it and society can make allowance for me for once!:rotfl::) I've managed through life so far without major hitches. Keep on going as I'm going - I mustn't be doing anything too wrong!

Another person I worked with was colour blind which may have been a problem as we were printing at the time :rotfl:
But I could not get my head around why it would be a problem because for example we will say grass is green if he saw it as a particular shade of grey that is ok because to him that is green. When he sees it again he knows that its green and it is to him.

Feel free to enlighten me folks as no one swayed me from this way of thinking :cool:
How do we all know that we see the same colour at traffic lights, is the red I see the same as the red you see. I understand the light is the same but do we all see it the same?

David.

aau1 wrote: »

I remember in maths class years and years ago my teacher telling us about the 100 year rule. i was looking forward to the year 2000 and the confused look on all my friends faces when there was no leap year........until he told us 2000 was in fact an exception!!!!! :mad:

Same maths teacher also gave us a brainteaser. He asked us to count up all the numbers from 1 to 100 and said it should be possible for each of us to do it in a few seconds and with no calculator. Any ideas how?

yup ..........

fairclaire

aau1 wrote: »

Your explanation will probably see us until the next leap day :rotfl:

You have to admit though it's a weird old thing, the brain :eek: I can't do much past simple sums......but I have oodles of legislation stored in my head and can access most of it pretty rapidly :rotfl:

zippydooda

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I know exactly about leap years. But it's too late in the night now. I'll get back to my Avs S!! Some other time perhaps for the details on leap years!:):rotfl:

now savvy please A.S.M.T can all wait they are shut in england. well a few may have opened at midnight:D

zippydooda

aau1 wrote: »

I remember in maths class years and years ago my teacher telling us about the 100 year rule. i was looking forward to the year 2000 and the confused look on all my friends faces when there was no leap year........until he told us 2000 was in fact an exception!!!!! :mad:

Same maths teacher also gave us a brainteaser. He asked us to count up all the numbers from 1 to 100 and said it should be possible for each of us to do it in a few seconds and with no calculator. Any ideas how?

50x50:cool: or simply 100 numbers