My recycled Tweets for 2009-10-21
- Huh. OK. Pretty sure from #ParallelPlay by #TimPage that I have #Aspergers. #FreshAir mp3: http://bit.ly/kkOLt; book http://bit.ly/3A8NJj #
- New blog post: Vedder Tuesday VII anomalous #
- New ? mcgees.org post: RSS readers have my deep apologies… #
- RT @BarackObama "You've made 35,000 calls to #Congress already! Help us get to 100,000 #hc09" (why is #Obama organizing a #DDoS attack?) #
- I wonder if, when #Ev was inventing #Twitter, if he thought the best use of it would be to mention #cat #flatulence. Holy shit, #Sebastian! #
- Sebastian (cat) was apparently able to hit CTRL-ALT-F6 by *napping* on my keyboard, taking me to a text login. Just try to duplicate that! #
- 22 September! I mean (shit!) 21 October! I mean YOU WILL ALL DIE!!!1! (WTF? http://home.flash.net/~evt/rapture.htm) #atheism #rapture #
- RT @denyreligion: 'Reason To Be' – Creepy Christian Kids Show #atheism http://bit.ly/9y8Tq (No quip. *Not* *funny*. THIS IS #CHILDABUSE.) #
- RT @center4inquiry http://bit.ly/Os4km (Archdiocese: "I’m not really sure what their message is, to be honest." KINDA THE PROBLEM.) #atheism #
- "No God" is #TT (yay!). I'd ignore, but curious whether 2 words is the max #TT size. Exercise: write TT hasher in <10 #Perl lines. #atheism #
- Critical mass on trends is a weird thing. Amused that the pro-Godders are (naively?) putting "No God" in their tweets. Ha! #atheism #TT #
- RT @jaseface: In an ironic twist, the whole thing was started over an influx of "No God, no peace. Know God, know peace." tweets. #atheism #
- RT @donquaketurbo @revrunwisdom: "No God, Know Peace. Know God, No Peace!" (aah, #memes! my #Darwin fish can eat your never mind) #atheism #
- #GoogleNotebook was one of their best offerings, and #Google have discontinued it. Shame. They suggest replacements; nothing near as good. #
- Do you know how many Children's #Tylenol you have to take to equal one extra-strength tablet? Roughly a metric handful. Aarghfucksaccharine. #
- Best. Advisory. Ever. "Warning, this title contains unusual and pretty much impossible #explicit #sex." #Amazon: http://bit.ly/3JpV5d #
- RT @denyreligion: Know your Koran, win a gun! #atheism http://bit.ly/1X3M2F (Or a frakking LAND MINE. Really. I so wish this were a joke.) #
- New ? mcgees.org post: Amazon: FAIL http://bit.ly/dJogo #anomalous #amazon #cutting #
- RT @scott_lowe Some people are like binary: Yes/No, On/Off, Black/White, Friend/Enemy. It's quite irritating, to be honest [no dichotomies!] #
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October 21st, 2009 at 10h50
Huh. OK. Pretty sure from #ParallelPlay by #TimPage that I have #Aspergers.
There’s an ongoing joke on MetaFilter that there are a set of answers that you can just post to random AskMe posts and have a better-than-even chance of having the correct answer. The number one answer would likely be “DTMFA”, followed closely by “See a doctor” and “Don’t eat it”. After those three, though, the best bet is probably “No, you don’t have Asperger’s”. That’s because, as you can probably imagine, internet nerds have a tendency to misdiagnose themselves (or the people around them) with this disease because it’s an explanation that they feel they can understand, rather than the incredibly complex and largely ineffable spectrum of human social interaction.
I don’t profess to be an expert by any means, but I’ve definitely spent an uncomfortably large number of hours in the presence of people with absolutely-no-question Asperger’s Syndrome. If you’re exposed to it with any regularity, it gets to be something that you can recognize, and I’d rank my ability to spot it as being significantly better than my terrible gaydar but not quite as impressive as my near-mythical ability to recognize when someone is using crystal meth. Given the amount of time that I’ve spent in your presence, I can’t say with absolute certainty that you don’t have Asperger’s, but I do think that it’s pretty unlikely.
October 21st, 2009 at 12h48
After those three…
You mis-indexed. #3 is “Yes, you need to see a lawyer.” I’m pretty sure jessamyn will back me up on this.
I don’t profess to be an expert by any means
So, um, basically #2? “See a doctor”? “I am not an expert but” flies really well on AskMeFi, but I suppose the answer would be better if neither of us does the diagnosing.
October 21st, 2009 at 13h49
I shudder to think what the world would be like if internet users applied the logic by which they self-diagnose themselves with Asperger’s to other ailments. “I can’t run fast; my leg must be broken.” “I don’t understand Hebrew; I probably have aphasia.”
OK, that bit was reason alone for keeping you around this site. Bravo.
October 21st, 2009 at 13h52
Definitely talk to a doctor about it if the opportunity arises. There’s really no reason not to.
[previously]
October 21st, 2009 at 13h43
IANAD. IANYD.
Definitely talk to a doctor about it if the opportunity arises. There’s really no reason not to.
A large degree of my skepticism, I’ll admit, comes from my experience that a lot of the symptoms for being an “Aspie” (difficulty with social norms, obsessive behaviors) overlap perfectly with the symptoms for being a nerd. For a couple of years I just assumed that a large portion of the sub- or anti-social people that I encountered had Asperger’s. It wasn’t until I met some people who absolutely had it that I really came to understand the difference between the two.
I shudder to think what the world would be like if internet users applied the logic by which they self-diagnose themselves with Asperger’s to other ailments. “I can’t run fast; my leg must be broken.” “I don’t understand Hebrew; I probably have aphasia.”
October 21st, 2009 at 14h36
OK, that bit was reason alone for keeping you around this site.
That’s very generous of you, considering that my comment was largely just an excuse for me to mention aphasia. Some people have favorite animals or favorite movies; I have favorite brain disorders. Aphasia has been a long-time favorite of mine, if for no other reason than that it works so well as a plot device for Unknown Armies.
/nerd