MizzyB’s doing something on Monday. Didn’t say what but said spread the word.
Coming out of denial about having Aspergers is horrible. I’m supposed to be at a party but fear I will act like a person who has Aspergers. At a large family party yesterday I know that I did, and let me torment myself with all the other social gatherings I have been to this week where I could have been just a bit more….I know that for a person with Aspergers I go to more than enough parties. It’s December, duh…
Somebody told me that I have never described Aspergers. I have linked to it, and will now. I’m that person and I’m a totally different one. Here’s a link to The Long Island Press on central audio processing disorder
I would like to the Press both for giving me a cover story and for making me think. I would like to thank so many bloggers it would take up many many lines. Don’t worry, the book is coming along just fine, and you will be thanked then.
Y’all know that I’m not a rote thinker? That I think outside the outside of ten boxes and a crate?
I just got a phone call from phona thon That was the number on caller ID, and the reason that my listed phone number is now a dummy phone. Ever since I paid Allied Interstate $47 that I didn’t owe them so they would stop harassing me I have been harassed by every company around. One company told me that the domain payment for my blog was over due. Told them to look at whosis. Right I didn’t owe this company anything as I have never done business with them. Sick of too many phone calls a day from companies that want to scam me.
Damn, we’re all Time Magazine’s person of the year. I resent, just a bit, not being personally selected for my amazing contributions to the world of blogging. They include such incredible things as writing super long verbose posts and fooling people into thinking that I have something to say, and…well I’m sure that there are some other things.
If you’re not familiar with my researched posts, and one in ten million people might want to be here’s a link to my best of BIO posts
I don’t have a Best of Courting because I change my mind every ten minutes, but am convening an executive committee to decide for me. As I have a dawg, a bone, a wombat and now an Al, they will probably deicide. How did Al get into that?
I so love blogging and everything that it implies for the future of media, but the future isn’t here yet. I have to conform, just a little, to the world of publishing. Not in my blog but in real life.
I will be going away for eight days in January and for the first time in years–I wrote on vacation when I was a reporter, will be at an exit gate in an airport without a laptop. Savannah Too is crying, but I’m happy.
NEW YORK (AP) — Extra! Extra! The press release arrived with a headline worthy of Rupert Murdoch: HARPERCOLLINS TERMINATES JUDITH REGAN. So ended, at least for now, one of the book world’s most profitable and provocative careers.
Do you think that Regan’s being fired might begin to herald in a new era? One where class and taste count for something?
Maybe the November elections began to show the way to a new, better America. Maybe Regan’s being fired is a sign of the times. Maybe Bill O’Reilly will be too scared to begin a Christmas war this year.
Maybe we are evolving. Over the past two years my personal faith in the American people has been restored. I have learned that we have more in common than what separates us.
Most of us have real morals, not the ones the Republicans tried to strangle us with.
I never cared what books Regan published as I am a First Amendment absolutist. I was angry because she was trying to promote her interview with OJ and the book as something that would heal women who are desperate to feel healed after having been abused.
That kind of thinking goes with Bush believing we’re winning a war that can’t be won, and putting us there in the first place.
Both Regan and Bush believe in the absurd and rationalize it as good for the American people. It’s not, and this country is waking up and beginning to understand that.
Hmm, Pia blogs about Regan’s OJ book. The book is cancelled. Less than a month later, Regan is fired.
Remind me to be extra nice to you
Y’know, I often wonder if I have Asperger’s in some way because I tune people out when I am hooked on something. For example, when I got into music, and played brass instruments, I tended to ignore everyone and constantly wanted to practice. I still sit and tune out when I play my guitar and I won’t know that an hour or so went by. And I can ignore people’s thoughts when I am solely in tuned to one topic.
Either that or I am just a jerk. Who knows?
I’ve suspected for awhile that I may have had Asperger’s as a child but “grew out” of a lot of it later. In any case, many brilliant and famous people are suspected of having it, so it made me feel kind of cool to imagine I had it too. I don’t do well at parties and I don’t like having my picture taken, but at one office party someone took pix of everyone laughing and smiling. Somehow I was in a few shots and I looked like some sort of zombie. So there you have it…
Hope you have a terrific blog-free vacation!
I think Reagan put her foot in her mouth according to OJ project. I didn;t know she got fired! Thanks for giving me the 411! HAPPY CHANNUKAH!
I figure everyone has a “mental illness” of some type. No one is all that normal.
It’s all in the labels. Much like anything else.
Yes, it is all in the labels but at the same time, it is not something that comes and goes either and I think that, in order for true understanding and compassion and help to be available, people have to get that! Asperger’s is very real and it can be, depending on the degree that an individual has it, very limiting.
I think you did a brilliant job in describing it some time ago. You once spoke of it, I remember, back in the days when I just found you, and it caused me to suspect whether my cousin had it. She did. She does. It definitely is not something that comes and goes and that you outgrow. The world is still lacking awareness and I am thankful that you speak of it and spread the word. Hopefully more of us will “get it” and get it right at that and open our minds and hearts to a larger understanding!
My cousin has had a really rough time of it but thankfully, she lives in a time where there is much more awareness and help available to her. I cannot imagine what it must be like for those that do not have it and you, my dear Pia, are brilliant to be the success that you are whilst living with Asperger’s… one of the many reasons I love you my friend!
And thank you for your sweet and always there support!
Besos!
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