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Re: TAPS
In the dozen or so years I've been here we have twice, maybe three times had snow on Mother's Day!
posted by
Ciel
on April 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Ciel......
......It isn't everyone that can have pretty pure white snow near the end of April. I think I would rather have it than the earthquakes near San Diego.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Re: Pat B,
Wow, that's so kind of you to think of me, and even more to write it out loud! Thank you!
posted by
Ciel
on April 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Re: Kabu,
You're such a sweetie!
It is nice to know that those things have explanations other than my just being a weirdo.
My IQ was tested years and years ago, and fell into the Potential Genius category which was a way of saying as I didn't much bother to work it, I wasn't much of a genius. When it comes down to it, my parents just never understood that it was not a generalized smartness, that I didn't have a chess-playing mind, and was intellectually lazy unless I was very interested in something. They never noticed or valued things like insightfulness.
posted by
Ciel
on April 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Re: Sherri G
If you want to know more about hyperlexia it's worth a search to get the right and more complete information. I have done that, and find it is most often attributed to kids who read exceptionally early and maybe even without formal instruction. A large percentage of autistic kids are hyperlexic but not all hyperlexic kids are also autistic. Sounds like one of those things they are just beginning to sort out and understand.
I also lived in different states in the early years, had parents who had no particularly distinct accents. They pretty much spoke with that kind of non-accent of tv news broadcasters of the 50s and 60s.
After living with my grandparents for a couple of years, age 3-5, I said Ya instead of Yes: Grandpa was of Swedish origins!
posted by
Ciel
on April 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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What Kabu said! I think you're amazing and so creative; thank you for the insights you share, the comments you post.
posted by
Pat_B
on April 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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It must be good to have some answers for a few things. I do know you must have a very high IQ which often goes with Autism; well I know you do dear friend.
posted by
Kabu
on April 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Huh, this makes me wonder about my speech. I am often asked where I am from. Now I wonder if it is due to living in so many different states or if I have a touch of that hyperlexia you wrote about. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on April 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Re: CCT
Agreed, most of our core-beliefs which shape our decision-making all through life, happened very early in life, and it takes some determined delving to pin down when and where we misinterpreted experiences and formed beliefs that have limited and bound us even when consciously we learned better. Autism, though, is more likely a processing condition passed through genetics, but likewise messes up perceptions and decision-making. So it's all very meshed and complicated. The question isn't whether we're produced by environment or genetics, it's always going to be both.
posted by
Ciel
on April 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I suppose self analysis means one can understand the way one is designed to act and behave as one does. Mostly probably by interaction at an early stage of one's life.
Of course this is mainly because one's for-bears carry a similar stage of reactive pain in the
nerve ways, Putting it politely .🌺
posted by
C_C_T
on April 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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