Posted by IsoM on January 24, 2002, at 16:32:55
In reply to Idiosyncrasies or idiocies? To IsoM, posted by medlib on January 24, 2002, at 14:31:04
Ah, medlib, I think you're very normal - just not at all average. [Average = boring]
I have a few friends who are sweetly strange too (mostly young, I'm not) & we laugh saying "what a pity so many miss out on our perspective of life."You wrote "It may take a couple of days before I subside into basic morosity again. How typically atypical that my version of hypomania (and my notion of "fun") is a cloud of inchoate verbosity."
Well, it seems morosity has settled on me yesterday & today. My adrafinil that came again has not had sufficient time to kick in & the weather is appallingly dreary. 1:00 PM & the sky's dark; it's cold, windy, & raining. I wouldn't be surprised to see some strange morose creature come skulking from the trees' edge like you'd see in Lord of the Rings."inchoate verbosity" sounds like a fun-time for me. I become very animated when talking, leaning on the edge of my seat, punctuating the air with my hands, but I'm not an action person except when I work & move about. My idea of a great party is to cook a huge simple meal, buffet style, & invite my sons & their friends & a few of my own, over for a game of Balderdash with a moderate amount of beer & wine thrown in. Played till the wee hours, it's my idea of paradise. (My sons have inherited my love of words.)
Another great game between 2 or 3 people only is Cheater's Scrabble. You don't keep score. The point is to see how many words can be made & it doesn't matter how you acquire the letter squares. If you can distract the persons in order to steal the letters from the main pile, each other or the board, it's allowed, but you can't be caught doing so. We'd have 2 or 3 islands of words unconnected to each other on the board from theft. If you take letters from the board though, it still needs to spell out real words. It's just a hoot to play & nobody feels competitive.
Well, for feeling gloomy today, I still can do enough talking. I so enjoyed your post. For a person who doesn't have Asperger (I can read social interactions & signals like a neon sign), I still have many of the other charateristics of it. It's probably why my one son with Asperger can get along so well with me. I understand him better than anyone else. Dinah, here on the forum, is similar to us. I love reading her posts too. In a couple of days when I'm feeling more human, I'll post back & read all the other posts too.
"On the off-chance that you have an infinite capacity for/patience with drivel and are still reading, I wish you well, and will probably live to bore another day.---medlib"
I don't have infinite patience but I do have an *appreciation* of your writings & enjoyed it to the very end. Thank you for your answer!
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