The Elite and the 24 hour #glitch people :)

emmita

Night Elite!

I'm off too else I will be snoozing tomorrow. Snoozing is so good but a waste of time. I do always allow a minimum of 1 snooze. Would be rude not to.

Good night folks!

zagubov

Thanks for the shiny new thread henlans. :beer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vooa6S9Vp4Y

fairclaire

Tinyshoes wrote: »

But with a wonderful mum like you he will get through this next step of his life. :A

I've quite honestly neglected him lately because DD and houseguest have both had exams going on. I do know they are very self sufficient and I wouldn't manage if they weren't but they have both been very set on doing well and well it's just been stressy all round :eek:

House guest is class he's decided he 'needs' £5000 in his bank account. He doesn't know what for but he knows he will be in need of money at some point in the future and he'd like to get a job to achieve it. He's quite high functioning and very articulate so I don't think it'll be a problem.

I just can't believe everyone has decided to grow up at the same time :eek: :rotfl:

hampydoodums

Me too, nite folks x

Tinyshoes

fairclaire wrote: »

I've quite honestly neglected him lately because DD and houseguest have both had exams going on. I do know they are very self sufficient and I wouldn't manage if they weren't but they have both been very set on doing well and well it's just been stressy all round :eek:

House guest is class he's decided he 'needs' £5000 in his bank account. He doesn't know what for but he knows he will be in need of money at some point in the future and he'd like to get a job to achieve it. He's quite high functioning and very articulate so I don't think it'll be a problem.

I just can't believe everyone has decided to grow up at the same time :eek: :rotfl:

We can't split ourself in three, I had times when I feel I neglected one or other of mine when other things were going on with the other two, but it is just part of being a family and in the long run, makes us who we are. It's not neglect in the true sense and you know that.

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

[A] It's just taken me somewhat longer to copy my M list onto here now the old thread was already closed. Only thankful that the forums are no longer timing out so quickly like they were before - I could never have done it even as I did but it would have been even more to go back and check all the crossings out that needed putting back in... Anyway...

It used to be that my parents would get me to do a clear-out every six months or so, as obviously it used to be their house that was affected (even putting things inside draws so that nothing could be seen was sometimes not good enough for them:eek:). Now that I live in my own house, I did think a couple of weeks ago about maybe I ought to just chuck the lot as it just piling up and then the bit of procrastination about it kicked in. But, yes, I recognise it - and the whole lot has gone now! Still have some folders of lots of work from my postgrad. degree from a decade ago lying in the room:rotfl:. Perhaps they should be next!

I am on the very mild end, and therefore, in fact, I am quite normal. So, perhaps I'm not more normal than I think after all but, instead, indeed, the opposite - I'm as normal as I think I am! You don't know how normal I think I am. When I told someone I had Asperger's, they said a couple of things to me - firstly they told me "We know." (well, thanks for not telling me for decades whilst you've known me:rotfl:) and, secondly, "You're not that bad." And, no, I'm not. I have got Asperger's - although actually I found my diagnosis was of "autism spectrum disorder" despite the person who diagnosed me, when they spoke to me, told me it was "Asperger's"! I am quite normal really and function quite well. But I do have subtle putting things off and things like that. It doesn't take over three and a half decades to diagnosis someone unless they don't have an obvious problem! Although, on the other hand, the scale that I scored, as a percentage of the highest possible scale for autism, is probably a little higher than how "mild" I am. And, in areas, it's not "mild" at all but very very severe. If you have a deficit in being unable to read all but the most obvious body language, then that blindness is severe and not a mild thing at all!

Fwiw, I reckon another member of my family is on the autism spectrum. I also reckon my father has ADHD although, as something not really diagnosed until the 1980s, you can tell that, in adults, it will be very subtle indeed as they will have learnt to mask it. My mum was quite shy, although I do not believe had autism. I reckon the combination is where my Asperger's came from - although I also had a difficult birth and there's possibilities there for speculation. My other member of the family, we found out that they'd written one line in a medical on one occasion that just said he had Asperger's (no formal assessment process or anything but apparently that is that!:eek:) - for the record I do not think they have Asperger's but I think they have pervasive development disorder not otherwise specified, so, whilst they're wrong about my autism as it is not autism but Asperger's (and they told me, face to face, it was Asperger's but said one thing then wrote another:rotfl:)

From what I gather recently.....just to confuse us.....they are moving away from aspergers diagnosis and just diagnosing anyone with ASD as ' on the spectrum' it's a bit of a hip term on social media :cool:

But in your defence.....Aspergers is saved for the very high functioning end of the spectrum and includes some of the best brains on our planet not that we didn't already know it

I reckon anyone of us.....of a certain age....could throw their memories back to childhood and recognise someone who'd these days would be deemed to be 'on the spectrum' be it a family member or in my case....people in primary school who were taken out of class for 'remedial' lessons
Autism isn't on the increase. But awareness is, thankfully

bexter7

Just got in and we're onto a new thread. Lets hope you bring us luck Henlans

hornetgirl

fairclaire wrote: »

Hornet Girl I'm glad you got home at a reasonable hour. Would you believe it was actually calm and sunny this afternoon :eek:

Still.....we are in that very personal situation of having seen each other's hair at its very worst :cool: :rotfl::rotfl: I won't tell if you won't

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

And of course the weather has been beautiful here the whole time we were away, or so mil would have us believe
Did you get your cod "dealt with"?

Savvybuyer

bubbs wrote: »

Extra Large Pineapple - 5+ Pack Oranges - 4+ Pack Nectarines 69p @ Tesco from tomorrow
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/extra-large-pineapple-5-pack-oranges-4-pack-nectarines-69p-tesco-from-tomorrow-2221946

So, maybe just price-matching Aldi, at last! :think:Why do we need to go to T? Maybe just shop at Aldi.

Galia Melon - seemed to be good at 87p at A? Er, no... 69p in Aldi! Maybe expensive M vs Aldi:rotfl:.

Some of the prices on fresh fruit/veg. in "Super 6s" at Aldi can go somewhat cheaper than the majors normally do. Maybe T is now trying to 'up its game' though but, sadly, for me, too late as Aldi have already been 69p on oranges since last Thursday - why wait until "tomorrow"? That's not to say that everything is good priced in Aldi, btw, just the Super 6 sometimes;) - most of everything else seems to be mainly same price to me as the "Value" range elsewhere (except for at Sains. obviously) and is mainly best Avs T/M for 10% off as it's same price rather than 10% cheaper - and you can certainly find some items in Aldi that are a lot more costly than elsewhere!! Such as apples on which Aldi does not currently have a Super 6 offer but which may be on special offer elsewhere. The Super 6s are good, I gather, because Aldi are able to buy them in specially at cheap prices but, like everywhere, it seems it's the special offers and avoid anything else! (Or, maybe, sometime it's the 'special offers of a competitor';).)

fairclaire

It's not until you grow up and experience things for yourself that some jigsaw pieces that have been missing all your life finally get out in place

As a child.....there was a man who lived across from my nan. He lived with a brother, none of them married, but when the brother died this man never left the house....never he had good neighbours who picked his pension up and did his shopping....they used to leave it hanging on the door handle. This went on for several years :eek:

one day there was a fire in his house :eek: he smoked and hadn't put rubbish out for YEARS!!! I did what nosey Scottish people do and gathered with the crowd around the ambulance they brought him out and he had the longest hair and beard I'd ever saw in my life at that time :eek: and his toenails had grown so long they were curved :eek:

I left it behind me long ago and got on with my life. then one day when I had haircut/nail cut time with DS2 it came into my head and I realised Walter.....that was his name.....was probably autistic. The social isolation, the hair....nails....And it made me feel really sad. Because in the small community he lived in he was just referred to as 'not right'

I'm glad that people are becoming more aware