Posted by medlib on April 17, 2000, at 6:08:41
In reply to Re: Palindromes, posted by Mark H. on April 14, 2000, at 18:22:42
> Hi MedLib,
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> Thank you, especially for Senile Lines, which seems particularly descriptive of my writing.
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> I've been meaning to ask if your delight in words is also part of your illness? Hypomanics and manics sometimes have a wonderful time with rapid word association.
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> Warm regards, Mark H.
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> (No hidden palindromes in the above message -- but here are a few of my borrowed favorites:)
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> Sex-aware era waxes.
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> Sex at noon taxes.
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> Lonely Tylenol.
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> Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
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> Yawn -- Madonna fan? No damn way!*******************************
Mark H--Thanks very much for your interest. Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I've been busy extracting my feet from my virtual mouth re a couple of previous posts.
Interesting--I did not know of the connection between mania and word association. My brother is bipolar, but that was never one of his symptoms. I have no personal knowledge of hypomania or mania; I've never been that up, although I've always wanted to feel that good--just once. My dx is double dysthmia--symptom onset in my teens. I believe my wordiness was inherited from my mother (she did NY Times crossword puzzles and played "killer" Scrabble until a few months before her death at 86). I disappeared into books before I started kindergarden and had a wide-ranging (and undiscriminating) curiosity. My brother called me an "intellectual junk collector." People were the only subject I couldn't figure out, perhaps partly because they aren't logical; facts and vocabularies were always easier to acquire than friends. (I almost avoided the temptation to say, "I was a nerd before there was such a word."--but I couldn't resist the alliteration.)
So, yeah, my wordiness probably is related to my disease; although I never have been diagnosed with OCD, I likely have an atypical version of it. Certainly my drive to share my information far exceeds any sane person's desire to know it. My poor daughter once inquired plaintively, "Mother, how come when I ask one question I get six answers?" Kinda like this post, huh?
Your posts indicate that you're unusually perceptive about people; would that I could borrow some small chunk of that ability--I might at least be able to avoid such an intimate association with shoe leather.
Your resident word "nut"--medlib
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