Player vs. Player... FOR SCIENCE! (2011/06/03)
So. I hate PvP. I hate it because for some reason, for me, being attacked by other players is intrinsically antifun. This is not restricted to video games; I can’t spar, and I can’t play a lot of competitive board games. (I can play games of competing to reach a goal, but not games of preventing other people from reaching a goal. Except Robo Rally which I play as a single-player game of moving across the board so fast that I’m not in contact with other players anyway.)
[read more...]Good days, bad days (2011/06/01)
So, I have my good days and my bad days. This is true of both autism issues and ADHD issues… and they are not on the same cycles. This means that the variance between my good days and my bad days is huge. No, huger than that. I run the range from “I can’t feed myself” to “I just put in six hours and did something that was expected to take three to four weeks”.
[read more...]Autism vs. Poetry (2011/05/31)
I am not great with poetry. Some of this, I think, is from people misexplaining it. See, when you use the phrase “the meaning of the poem”, you communicate, to me anyway, that the poem has exactly one meaning. Which you propose to identify and explain.
[read more...]Setting idea, free to good home (2011/05/31)
So, sometimes in fantasy settings, we find the occasional charlatan. Crazy thought; what if everyone were faking it? Okay, now, make it a high fantasy setting. Mighty wizards, priests who impose the will of gods, vampires, werewolves, stuff like that.
[read more...]Am I people? I tend to think so... (2011/05/30)
So, someone wrote recently to thank me for the blog postings, reminding me that I was doing them. My correspondant commented about people seeing the diagnosis, but not seeing that there’s a person in there.
[read more...]Eating candy. FOR SCIENCE (2011/05/29)
Unsorted M&Ms taste the same.
[read more...]Who does Lady Gaga sound like? (2011/05/28)
Everybody.
[read more...]Hoover support: It sucks. Not in a good way. (2011/05/24)
I got a new vacuum cleaner, a Hoover “multi-cyclonic”, model number SH40060.
[read more...]I sorta wonder whether I could hold down a job... (2011/05/22)
Yeah, I know. I have one. It works out, they seem happy, I’m happy.
[read more...]An open letter to my psychologist of Way Back When (2011/05/21)
Hello, David. Long time no see. I got to thinking about our conversations some years ago, and something’s bugging me.
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