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Koren wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Koren wrote: "What is on your bucket list?"To do stand up comedy at Comedy Cellar"
I wish I could be there. If you become famous will you get me a front row seat?"
I would have to be famous to do stand-up at Comedy Cellar. And yes of course.
Karin wrote: "I'm out! As someone with a lot of allergies, I was a mouth breather as a child and used to chew with my mouth open as a child. Yes, I have overcome it, but it was hard. My eldest used to do it beca..."Oh I get you with the allergies, have suffered with terrible allergies all my life.
Koren wrote: "#5 On a more positive note...name something that makes you smile."This may sound weird, but when I can talk with someone who also suffers from depression, and they have the same issues with people that I have. And when I describe how I feel, they understand.
Not that I'm happy that people are depressed, but when I find someone that understands me, it makes me smile.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Koren wrote: "#5 On a more positive note...name something that makes you smile."This may sound weird, but when I can talk with someone who also suffers from depression, and they have the same iss..."
I understand this. I feel like this almost every time I meet a parent with a child who has Asperger's or otherwise fits on what is now this continuing spectrum. NO ONE who doesn't have a child like this can truly know what it's like to parent one, although children vary a great deal and our experiences aren't all the same. But not if their Aspie is like my cousin who manages to function as a lawyer in commercial insurance in Canada--mine isn't emotionally that functional or mature.
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This may sound weird, but when I can talk with someone who also suffers from depression, and..."
I am also in the 'parent of a child with Asperger's club, Karin. I totally agree with what you said.
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Koren wrote: "#5 On a more positive note...name something that makes you smile."This may sound weird, but when I can talk with someone who also suffers from d..."
I had forgotten that (if I knew it :) ). Mine is 25 and we just had her re-diagnosed this winter now that they recognize she is disabled--I'll stop here.
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This may sound weird, but when I can talk with someone who also ..."
My son is 30. I'll bet we could write a book about dealing with Asperger's/autism when not a lot was known about it.
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Koren wrote: "#5 On a more positive note...name something that makes you smile."This may sound weird, but when I can talk with som..."
and about ADHD - all the alternative cognitive neuroddivergencies - i did write a book about my own experiences as such with my husband who does not have ADHD - and how we worked through ths issues to enable ourselves titho live a rich and full mutually supportive life. It is called Living w and loving ADHD and neuro-diversity - just in case it might be of interest to you too xxx https://www.amazon.com/Living-Loving-...
Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Koren wrote: "Karin wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Koren wrote: "#5 On a more positive note...name something that makes you smile."This may sound weird, but when I can talk with som..."
Yes! I am very grateful that her kindergarten teacher had been a SpEd teacher for 20 years and that the principal had a background being the prinicpal of a former public school that was mostly pre-school and K with a focus on kids with learning issues, etc along with some "mainstream" kids so they'd heard of this and when I asked questions, suggested I ask to get an assessment, etc.
But her initial prognosis was excellent, so it's hard that it hasn't worked out that way. I hoped she'd be more like Liane Holliday Willey when she grew up, but there are other issues she has.
But, yes, we could write a book! Especially since our kids are probably very different in many ways given that Asperger's is an umbrella diagnosis...ADHD is also an challenge. My son's best early intervention OT has ADHD and so she loved her job because it was active and each stop only an hour. He is not an Aspie and is very bright, but had a different learning curve. BUT he is also a neuro-diverse person due to his dyslexia (but not the kind most people think of with scrambled letters--he can read out loud very well, but he fits as he has a cluster in what I choose to call the dyslexic spectrum).
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Koren wrote: "#6. If you could go back to your teenage years- would you?"NO
Koren wrote: "#6. If you could go back to your teenage years- would you?"No! If I could go back to any age knowing what I know now, I'd go back to 25--still young and winning against gravity, but with an adult brain.
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I will agree with the rest of you. No way!
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Koren wrote: "#6. If you could go back to your teenage years- would you?"If I could go back while retaining everything I have learned, yes. Otherwise, NO.
Koren wrote: "#7 What is your favorite summer food?"For health reasons, I can't eat most of my true favourites anymore. But of the ones I'm 'allowed', I like strawberries ... if they're good tasting ones ... which I can't seem to get here! Boohoo!
Diane in Australia wrote: "Koren wrote: "#7 What is your favorite summer food?"For health reasons, I can't eat most of my true favourites anymore. But of the ones I'm 'allowed', I like strawberries ... if they're good tast..."
One of my favourites was watermelon, but can't eat it now :( or any of my summer fruit favourites.
Koren wrote: "#6. If you could go back to your teenage years- would you?"I am with Marge Piercy in her book Braided Lives, when she says "If there's a hell and they send me there, all they have to do is make me 14 again."
My favorite summer food is popsicles and (nondairy) ice cream.
Koren wrote: "#7 What is your favorite summer food?"I do like watermelon but corn on the cob on the grill is good too!
Koren wrote: "#7 What is your favorite summer food?"i don't really have one, but in my defense I grew up in warm weather climates where we really didn't have 'seasons' like summer and winter.
I like corn on the cob too..bbq anything is also nice.And strawberries and ice cream on a hot day.
Although its winter here and I've been having soup.
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And strawberries and ice cream on a hot day.
Although its winter here and I've been having soup."
Yummm! I love all of it!
all summer vegetables, sweetcorn, courgettes aubergines tomatoes and beans all fresh from the garden nad made into delicious roast veg tartlets or spanish omelettes or whatever else. all the salads too. I can eat that food forever, and vegan ice cream
Sylvia wrote: "all summer vegetables, sweetcorn, courgettes aubergines tomatoes and beans all fresh from the garden nad made into delicious roast veg tartlets or spanish omelettes or whatever else. all the salads..."We're getting our first garden tomatoes now. I personally loathe raw tomatoes and cooked tomatoes (except in certain sauces), but my family likes them. That said, I enjoy taking care of them in the garden more than some plants.
Koren wrote: "#7 What is your favorite summer food?"Definitely corn on the cob.
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Koren wrote: "#8. Summer is winding down rapidly. What is your favorite season?"
Summer! Always seems to end too soon...😔
Summer! Always seems to end too soon...😔
Fall- I love the cool weather and the trees turning colors!
Fall- I love the cool weather and the trees turning colors!
Autumn...harvest season. We don't call it fall here, most of our native trees are evergreen.
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I love spring because I love watching nature renew itself!
#8Going to be the oddball. Winter.
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Beer. What? Not a food?"
It's made from grain and grain is a food so I would say it is a food.
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Going to be the oddball. Winter."
That IS odd!
Koren wrote: "Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "#8Going to be the oddball. Winter."
That IS odd!"
Could be the clothes.
Koren wrote: "#8. Summer is winding down rapidly. What is your favorite season?"It has changed. When I was a kid it was spring and summer, but now with my allergies I like winter if it is snowy. That said, I don't like it really cold or really hot, but to go outside with no pollen or mould spores in the air is fabulous.
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Koren wrote: "We have had mid 70 degree weather this past week. Almost unheard of in August. Wish it could be like this all year long."I love it when it is c. 70-75 F and not humid. (too bad that never happens with no pollen...)
Koren wrote: "We have had mid 70 degree weather this past week. Almost unheard of in August. Wish it could be like this all year long."It's been like that here too! Someone told me the north wind is cooling down Lake Michigan so much that you can't swim in it safely. It's between 39 and 40 degrees. In AUGUST.
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