The Nice People No. 17

PasturesNew

SingleSue said:

 

.... driving test today! Social distancing is slightly easier..how to cook (shared kitchen) ...

On the roads yesterday there was 1/4 or 1/5th of the usual traffic.  Instead of being gridlocked in a long road seeing just the 4rse end of the car/van/bus in front for its nearly 1 mile length I simply cruised along at the 30mph speed limit, able to see the spire of the church in the far distance (that I'd never seen before).  There will be far fewer, if any, Far Quits impending his route.  Probably a darned GOOD day to take it!  Hope he passes. 

Social distancing is BRILLIANT   

Cooking ... as I'm clearly an expert in this.  You can eat cold Tilda pouch rice from the pouch - and probably all others too.  Tilda state the rice is cooked inside the pouch, so there is no contamination whatsoever, just open it and eat.  Pot Noodles of course, although pricey - Mr T does some instant noodles at 14p/pack, Hearty Food Co.  There are also the Mr T own brand at 30p.  So that's just a secret kettle required and little/zero washing up.   Mr T does do its own pot noodles, Hearty again, but you're paying for the pot as they're about 27p, with less contents than in the 14p bags.

Boxes of cereal: I eat cereal dry, maybe there's one he can find that he can eat dry... just treat them like a bowl of nibbles, like you'd dip into peanuts.  My favourite are L1dl Honey/Nut cornflakes... but many cereals can be eaten dry, e.g. Frosties, Coco pops, Sugar Puffs - and the supermarket own brand variants of those. 

For bread, a whole loaf's out of the question - although I have bought a whole loaf recently.  A loaf can make sandwiches, jam and marmalade are good little sandwich fillers that require no refrigeration and keep.  Then there are little pots of paste.  I've switched to flatbreads (75p at L1dl/4ldi for a 6 pack), watching the dates they can have a good 5-6 days apiece.  It can be tricky working out what to fill those with, which is why I sometimes just eat one as it is.  I've occasionally picked up a cheap pot of sandwich filler and a pack of flatbreads, on the understanding that I was going to open that and eat it all within 4-5 hours and choosing the flavour carefully (e.g. cheese/onion, not the chicken ones).  

A bit of fruit ... keep an eye on what's cheap this week/on offer and if there's nothing that fits the bill then that's it.  

Jelly... and cheap tinned fruit.  The cheapest tinned fruit is peach slices, about 33p.  There are some mandarins kicking about (Mr T) at about 37p.  Also keep an eye out for cheap pineapple (say <40p only or go without). 

Instant mash is another ... I plan a meal in the coming days of instant mash, stuffing mix and gravy.  If you make up stuffing in a mug ... it doesn't need to be baked, you can just eat it as it is. 

Think about which tinned foods can be eaten out of the can, cold, with a spoon.  My preferences are: some types of peas (hard to get right now) and rice pudding (4ldi it's only 20p).  That rice pudding can go down a treat with a blob of jam if you've got the jam (28p 4ldi and L1dl) in.  Jam sandwiches and creamed rice, what's not to like  

You have to think a bit more creatively about food - and see it just as calories that you find palatable to get you through.  This isn't for life, it's just now - and it can be exciting spotting something new.  

Spend a bit more and if you like fish, the whole raft of tinned fishes opens up, great sandwich fillers.  I'm not a fan and they can get a bit pricey.  

As that's all a bit "depressing", one needs a bit of light relief.... so chocolate.  4ldi and Mr T do the best 30p bars of chocolate... they are melt in the mouth stuff; L1dl's is more of a hard crack. 

Cakeguts

Funnily enough the psychiatrist at the National Neurological hospital in London asked me about my birth and if I was full term.  I said I think I was but I was small 19 inches I think my mother said but as usual with me there is a problem. My mother had narcissistic personality disorder and she told lies. So there is something in the way you are born that I don't understand. 

My mother's blood group was B negative which is really rare. Mine is O positive.  If I remember it is reckoned that O is the oldest group. My mitochondrial DNA is very old it comes from hunter gatherers.  U5a for anyone that is interested. 

I was told by the NHS psychiatrist that they would not deal with me if I went private so that is fine by me because I prefer to get help from someone who understands the autistic brain rather than someone who says straight away that they are not interested in my autism.  Welcome to the world of mental illness.  Autism has a lot of neurology in it.  My brain is wired differently.  You can't treat a brain wired like the  space shuttle the same way as one wired like a dust buster car vacuum cleaner. 

I have very unusual auditory processing. I hear sounds that no one else hears.  People who understand autism accept it as an autistic trait. The whole thing is such an enormous relief it explains my whole life as an out person.

I like the Temple Grandin comment about the cave man.  She said it wasn't the social butterflies who invented the first spear.  She also said that we wouldn't have electricity or computers without autism.

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

SingleSue said:

 

.... driving test today! Social distancing is slightly easier..how to cook (shared kitchen) ...

Social distancing is BRILLIANT   

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for that, Pastures! 

Pyxis

Cakeguts quote......
“You can't treat a brain wired like the  space shuttle the same way as one wired like a dust buster car vacuum cleaner. “


😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Another good laugh! 👍👍

Just imagining people with DustBuster brains! 😂

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

I have very unusual auditory processing. I hear sounds that no one else hears.  

My hearing is acute on some sounds.  One evening I called the police and told them somebody in the next road, 200 yards away was about to attempt a break in... because I heard their footsteps change. I was right. 

I can hear a football drop on a pavement from 200 yards/2 streets away ... and a speaking child from 400 yards

What drives me MENTAL ... is rustling wrapping.  In a supermarket when people pick up the rustling packages and pull them about ... and hold them while they look along the shelf, rustling... I want to RIP them out of their hands, chuck them down on the shelf and scream at them "FGS Either buy it or put it back" but you're not allowed to do that. 

Here, my LL buys/uses a lot of rustley wrappers; being oriental, it'll be lots of rustley noodles packs and other imported dried goods.... drives me MENTAL!  She was only cooking for, say, 20 minutes/day 2x a week MAX before.  Now she's tip tapping her feet across the laminate and rustling !!!!!!' packets EVERY HOUR!   Yesterday, between the three of them (her + the secret/hidden other two) they were in there rustling for 1.5 hours straight.... But I can't scream, or say anything because .... I'm  in here like a hiding ninja, hoping she thinks I'm out or asleep and so won't "panic me" by tapping on the door and wanting to speak to me..... 

I also smell things.  When I was looking after my parents' empty house I smelt gas.  Called Transco, the man turned up with his machine and plugged it in..... he said "the meter is reading it, but it's so low I've absolutely no idea how on earth you ever managed to smell that".  

Pyxis

Pastures quote:
“I want to RIP them out of their hands, chuck them down on the shelf and scream at them "FGS Either buy it or put it back"  but you're not allowed to do that.”

You see! You do understand some social niceties! 😄😉

Cakeguts

PasturesNew said:

Cakeguts said:

PasturesNew said:

  

How on earth did you suddenly think that up about Liz and Phil?

 

Autism I guess.  I'll have scanned down headlines without reading, then gone off at tangents asking questions.. and that one popped  into my head.  

You know how it is .... you end up talking about trips to the dump at posh dinners   It happens.  

It's these sort of tangents that often "offend" people... leading directly to the naughty step forever. 

Oh that random thing that comes to you from something that you read somewhere coupled with something you read somewhere some time in the last 3 weeks or the last 6 months and it suddenly comes to you.   Yes I know about those especially if you have one in the middle of a conversation that you are trying to have with someone about something really boring and then that happens and you think it is more intesting than the mundane thing so you change the subject.  Then they think you are completely mad.

I thought your comment was extremely funny.  All I could think was "why didn't I think of that."  Probably too  occupied with controlling depression and anxiety.  You made me laugh for the first time in days.  It was the back garden bit that did it. I mean Diana is in a lake so they might be able to find a bit of soggy garden to make them easier to dig up again later.

I have the music autism brain that apparently is all pattern recognition so I can get patterns in information over several weeks without ever writing anything down and that leads to these random flashes of inspiration that come to me as blindingly obvious and rocket science to anyone else.  Then they get all upset because they think I am being rude.  My counsellor explained this to me only on Saturday so I am still learning a lot. Dr Temple Grandin explains about the different autistic brains. Mine is pattern recognition maths and music although mine is all sound and music.

I am in one of the sharpest learning curves since I had to learn that acoustic guitars had 6 strings and bass guitars only 4.

I have never known why I always get treated differently to other people.  I always assumed that I was an out person not that this is what happens if you are on the autistic spectrum.

I have a large garden that needs a lot of work that should keep me busy for a few weeks. I just have to watch my husband who is 74 and loves shopping in the supermarket. I hate shopping.

Listening to Janacek Glagolitic Mass. I remember listening to it a lot when I had depression 20 years ago.  So thought I would give it another try. Some wonderful chord changes in it and shifting harmonies.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

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Oh that random thing that comes to you from something that you read somewhere coupled with something you read somewhere some time in the last 3 weeks or the last 6 months and it suddenly comes to you.   Yes I know about those especially if you have one in the middle of a conversation that you are trying to have with someone about something really boring and then that happens and you think it is more intesting than the mundane thing so you change the subject.  Then they think you are completely mad.

 

That's precisely the one. Especially blurting it out when somebody else is mid sentence about something entirely different ....  

PasturesNew

Don't quote, will edit into something entirely pointless as you can't delete now.

Blimey, hope she doesn't keep this up!  LL used to wake up about 11, into kitchen, kettle/drink, away in 2 minutes. 

This morning she did all that, but sat and had her drink... then started rustling and chopping... then ENDLESS scraping of a jar.... by this point I wanted her to just die.  And now ... now .... we're farquin STIRFRYING!!!  

When I viewed she said she was always out and didn't cook.... and that's changed since the people smuggling started. 

9.20 into kitchen, 9.30 started rustling/chopping, 9.50 started frying (and more slicing/chopping).  10.00 it STINKS

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

Cakeguts said:

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Oh that random thing that comes to you from something that you read somewhere coupled with something you read somewhere some time in the last 3 weeks or the last 6 months and it suddenly comes to you.   Yes I know about those especially if you have one in the middle of a conversation that you are trying to have with someone about something really boring and then that happens and you think it is more intesting than the mundane thing so you change the subject.  Then they think you are completely mad.

 

That's precisely the one. Especially blurting it out when somebody else is mid sentence about something entirely different ....  

ADHD is a bit like that, too.