The Extra Loveliest Individual's Team Expedition

Saversue

Just getting a message on Achica - this code is no longer valid.
Have used it a few times on different emails, all under £20, will see if anything arrives.

We are sorry but this voucher has ended

squilliondollarbaby

Sad_Dad wrote: »

Evening all,

AvT shop from 3 hours ago. MOC used on the Plenty and Liberte yoghurts. Was hoping the Shea body lotion would be a trigger but it wasn't.

10 items on your bill qualify for comparison ASDA Tesco
+£2.02

1 x Smartprice Strawberry Individual Cheesecake (... £0.31 £0.31
1 x Libert! Fat Free Greek Style Blueberry Harvest Yog... £2.18 £2.19
1 x Nivea Irresistibly Smooth Body Lotion - Normal Ski... £1.66 £1.74
1 x Nivea Daily Essentials Double Effect Eye Make Up R... £1.67 £1.68
1 x Swizzels Matlow Strawberry Refresher Bar £0.10 N/A
1 x Haribo Tangfastics Mini £0.10 £0.10
1 x Chosen by You Soft Wholemeal Rolls (6) £0.70 £0.60
1 x Indian Takeaway Garlic & Coriander Naans (2 p... £0.75 £0.50
1 x Plenty Kitchen Towel White - 50 Sheets per Roll (8... £4.00 £3.21
1 x Dove Purely Pampering Shea Body Lotion (250ml) £1.67 £1.99
1 x Soft & Gentle Body Responsive Antiperspirant Deodo... £1.50 £0.20

Purely Pampering wasn't the potential trigger ISTR

frequent

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Yep, makes sense! He is more along the autism spectrum than I am. I'm 'just a little bit' - as I've said before, just enough to give me special abilities (though sadly not of the level of savantism) whilst not being enough to leave me with severe learning disability. I pass for a 'normal person' - and did so for a small number of decades.

That said, my 'little bit' autistic is actually that I have no body language reading of others at all. Well - I say 'at all', obviously I can see the real obvious - such as someone smiling, happy, someone crying their eyes out (and not in a 'crying with happiness' sense, which I can detect) I know they are sad. But beyond that...

My brain is certainly different, I discovered! But just how different it is I didn't realise at the start. I suspected I may have AS in the mid 1980s (before anyone even really knew of AS), for a brief few moments, but ruled it out and never mentioned my brief thought to anyone as I feared having a disability and being sent to a special school. Times were certainly different then (in my perception at the time they were anyway). I felt that if you were disabled, you were cast out.

Now I am aware my brain is very very different to the vast majority of people's... and it's different in so many aspects that I didn't realise before. My chemical messagers probably travel a circuitous route to get to their destination... but get to it they do - I simply have a road closure set up in my brain and it functions, in its own way, perfectly well!:j:j I rather like having AS, I couldn't imagine how it must be without it, and I think it's a lot better having it than not having it. I would not want to be any other way - certainly couldn't imagine how complicated it must be to be bombarded by body language constantly and to be unable to concentrate and focus on tasks effectively. I wouldn't want the bombardment - I am happy not having it, and perhaps you'd never know - I can drive, I can speak, walk normally (at my normal pace!), do things everyone else can. Good on me.:T

If you paid as much attention to your bm vouchers SB, poor show old chap, mine was predicted @ £9.76 and printed @ £9.76

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

The whole body language thing completely passes him by, even the obvious things like crying. Likewise facial expressions. He has lots of mirrors in his room....he loves mirrors! and I very often catch him looking at himself whilst talking to me and making exaggerated facial expressions whilst he's talking. It's a very strange thing and I have no idea why he does it. It seems he'd rather look at himself than me when we have a conversation

Hi. We could keep replying and batting the ball back to each other, may be useful to go into PM. But I think... no, the obvious things I still get, but facial expressions beyond that, I don't.

Yeah - mirrors are very interesting.

Yeah - I'm often not aware of my own facial expressions - often smile too much. I think it's just his thoughts at the time, he's totally unaware he's doing it.

As for looking at himself, it's nothing personal against you. It's simply eye contact is lost to some degree - it can be a little uncomfortable looking at someone in the eyes. It's not 'natural' (to me). Some people with the condition may actually feel physical pain at looking at someone in the eyes - I don't know. For me, it's just not natural - I can do it, but actively have to think to do it in order to do it, I think it's just a 'slowness' of my brain in not picking up body language to cause me to focus at someone's eyes (and 'focus at' is correct for me, 'at' sounds a bit more abrasive than 'focus on'). Conversely, I can think of looking at someone in the eyes - and then just stare. Not to intentionally stare them out. Instead, rather more a fascination with how they look or a fascination with them, just like a fascination with a mirror or an interesting rock formation:rotfl:.

The eye contact thing - can be uncomfortable because a certain part of an autistic person's brain is overstimulated when they look at someone in the eye (I dislike the expression "look me in the eye" BTW) - and this overstimulation causes them to look away or otherwise gives them an aversion (to a lesser or greater degree) to looking at someone in the eye.

I don't know what I'd suggest. At my age, there's no point in me learning body language, I managed to get through life and managed without it. It's just too complex a topic to me for me to study (i.e. find out what all the various expressions, the far more subtle, mean - I'd never remember it all, and, yes, I'd have to remember it and it would just be too exhausting having a conversation and thinking of what the other person's body language is like at every moment at the same time as trying to talk to them (hard enough as it is, due to the logical way in which my conversations proceed that doesn't tally with 'normal' people's) - instead, why not just get down to it and talk to them? Why keep thinking of their body language at the same time? That's what I do - just get and talk to them and not pay any attention to other things. Seems to work perfectly well the vast majority of the time.)

Whether or not it's worth your son learning all the body language expressions.. depends on his age (12), how useful that may be to him or not, etc., but yet, in his own way, he seems to cope. For me, at the age of [cough], there's no point at this late stage starting to try. It doesn't give me a massive problem in my daily life. Getting on perfectly well (except certain things sometimes fall behind, that I then catch up with in the end).

TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Pictures of lady's legs in between my posts:rotfl:.

Savvy:eek:

Can you please re phrase that:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

scamps1966

Saversue wrote: »

Just getting a message on Achica - this code is no longer valid.
Have used it a few times on different emails, all under £20, will see if anything arrives.

We are sorry but this voucher has ended

I'm getting that as well, I was late to the party, but managed to get a 'few' orders through.

Savvybuyer

frequent wrote: »

If you paid as much attention to your bm vouchers SB, poor show old chap, mine was predicted @ £9.76 and printed @ £9.76

Hey, where's this all coming from?:):rotfl:
I predicted £9.99 and got that!

Lol :rotfl:- I read [red] your post as saying "poor slow old chap" and was about to say my brain may be slow (very very slightly) in responding, sometimes, to others but it's certainly far far from "slow" in other areas!:j:beer:
I see you've actually written "poor show old chap" (the lack of a comma after "show" got me:p) - why have I given a "poor show"? Have I missed something? (Doh...!!:doh::rotfl::rotfl:)

In other words, please explain your post!:) (You're dead right - I'm slow in understanding that!)

squilliondollarbaby

TinyTubbyJock wrote: »

Happy to confirm that a certain Scottish friend of mine had a great cookie day last week and has got enough coconut spray, Dove and Sanex to sink a battleship.. Add a "few" Achica orders today, 144 cans of coke for £7 a couple of weeks ago and 39 cases of "3 for £22" Bud and it has been a great couple of weeks!!

The ppr he is subject to at the moment hopefully finishes at 1pm on Tuesday and I know he is keen to come back and join you all again..;);)

Scottish gets can !!!! right off lol good to hear, get back to the buckies and kebabs then lol :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

lutzi1

squilliondollarbaby wrote: »

How many hours of boozing I got left till Stoptober then tweets?

Obviously not a drunk or anything but can I have a couple tomorrow night according to the letter of Stoptober?

I'd say it was a necessity.

So come on peeps, has anybody got any helpful suggestions for what SDB can drink instead? I'll kick it off by suggesting well chilled American Dry Ginger, with ice if required, it packs a bit of a satisfying punch.

nerfdad

TinyTubbyJock wrote: »

Happy to confirm that a certain Scottish friend of mine had a great cookie day last week and has got enough coconut spray, Dove and Sanex to sink a battleship.. Add a "few" Achica orders today, 144 cans of coke for £7 a couple of weeks ago and 39 cases of "3 for £22" Bud and it has been a great couple of weeks!!

The ppr he is subject to at the moment hopefully finishes at 1pm on Tuesday and I know he is keen to come back and join you all again..;);)

Looks like he's doing well;):rotfl: