Christmas Day shout out!

Well...Christmas will soon is upon us...... I have a house full of people (5/6 Christmas Eve, Christmas Day...increasing to 8/9 Boxing Day and the 27th December).

I am dreading it as it will mean several days without any personal space, or quiet time or escape from NTs doing their thing. They will enjoy their traditions and I will be ASD serving wench making sure that everyone has a good time, but inside i will be struggling to cope.

This is a shout out...as I am going to need some help to get me through without a tantrum, shutdown or meltdown.

Is there anyone else about during the Christmas break who is planning to be online ......it would help a great deal to keep me on an even keel!

thank you

Ellie


  • Lonewarrior wrote:

    Hello DP I have dyslexia and cannot remember more than about three numbers in a row.I wrote about my dyslexia not long after I joined, I will find it and reply to it so it can be found easily as it must be very far up the last viewed list by now,

    I also wrote a very big post about me when I was very young, the troubles I had and the abuse I had to take.

    it meant I was shouted at in infant and primary school by teachers, it caused me much pain. I can count well enough but I  cannot add more than three numbers together before I lose the first ones.

    I couldn’t read or understand any letters even st primary school. Copying words from the chalk board was like copying Chinese characters to some, I was shaken so hard I cried,this when in infant school. I had wooden board dusters thrown at me often hitting thier target.

    I do see things very similar to you.


    With the big post I recall, and stating that perhaps about it or a post after it was a lush read, as I really got where you were coming from by contrast to my experiences at school, i.e. I was at a young age reading easily what most people find really hard to read ~ and some teachers even accused me of lying about reading books they themselves had not or could not read, because such works were beyond their reading proficiency level.

    So trying to explain the particulars of books I had actually read was a complete waste of time, because it was all nonsense to them and impossible for them to grasp. The old "Children know nothing until they have been told and shown how to do something" ethos kind of got really challenged with me,knowing more than I should, and not grasping what I should.


    Lonewarrior wrote:

    I struggle in daily life but I never give in, I researched this ascii stuff until I could at least use it, as I say I do not understand it although like you I see similarities in some number sequences.

    I wish you well.


    Likewise with the struggle stuff but 'heal-to-toe; heal-to-toe' keep plodding on, and likewise with the researching ascii stuff as my tutor discusses ascii quite often, and like you I do not understand it much yet, but even then comprehending it and how to apply it is highly unlikely, and I have as such been advised "Never go near any coding on any operating system." which I concur with completely and utterly without any iota of reserve.

    And very much likewise with the well wishings too from me to you and everybody else also.

    (X) Hugging (X)


  • I smoke too!  Gives a good excuse to leave the room and go outside for a few minutes, lol!

  • Hi Ellie!  I've just this minute joined, otherwise I'd have added my support before now.  I hope you managed to get through it all in one piece and that things are quieter for you over New year.  I'm very lucky in that although my family all love big Christmases with everyone together, now that the youngsters are all married with other in-laws to visit, Christmas Day doesn't often include everybody.  Even luckier is the fact that my house is too small for me to have them here! 

    I've always found Christmas a struggle because I have S.A.D. so when society is telling us to jump up and down, sing and be sociable, all I want to do is hide under the duvet until the clocks change back!  I've just discovered that I am also on the spectrum (probably an Aspie) which has suddenly, and for the first time, stopped me feeling guilty about this.  It isn't my fault that I don't enjoy loud parties or lots of people talking at once in a confined space, and to suddenly realise that at the ripe old age of 76 is a real game-changer!

    It isn't your fault either and I do hope your partner recognises this.

    I just lost a paragraph here!!  It said that when I was a child I used to respond to difficult situations by 'dissociating' - mentally taking myself out of the situation to somewhere else - and I know I still do this.  I don't remember learning how to do it or I'd tell you but maybe if you tried to do it, when you're on your own for a few minutes - even in the loo! - it might happen for you, too?

    Thank you so much for your post!  It's made me aware that other people can have a much worse time than I do at Christmas!

    Hugs,

    Vicky-Sue

  • Hello DP I have dyslexia and cannot remember more than about three numbers in a row.I wrote about my dyslexia not long after I joined, I will find it and reply to it so it can be found easily as it must be very far up the last viewed list by now,

    I also wrote a very big post about me when I was very young, the troubles I had and the abuse I had to take.

    it meant I was shouted at in infant and primary school by teachers, it caused me much pain. I can count well enough but I  cannot add more than three numbers together before I lose the first ones.

    I couldn’t read or understand any letters even st primary school. Copying words from the chalk board was like copying Chinese characters to some, I was shaken so hard I cried,this when in infant school. I had wooden board dusters thrown at me often hitting thier target.

    I do see things very similar to you.

    I stumbled across the ascii on here,I wondered what it was, I decided to find out, I found a text to ascii converter,it converts both ways, I still do not understand it. At first I spent a lot of time writing the numbers down on paper then typing them all into the converter,invariably getting lost as I saw nothing more than a mixed up jumble every time I wrote another number,often if I got just one number or spacing  row wrong it effected in some way the outcome of the other numbers, eventually someone taught me how to copy and paste, something I had never had success in. 

    I struggle in daily life but I never give in, I researched this ascii stuff until I could at least use it, as I say I do not understand it although like you I see similarities in some number sequences.

    I wish you well.


  • Wound above ~ page layout death with transliterations. Sob

    Wound above healed at 01:20 on the 31st of December 2017 ~ page layout health restored. Mask + Joy 

    Wound above again ~ page layout death with transliterations has restored itself!?! As of 16:45 01/01/18, must be the equivalent of secondary infection.



  • From a more concrete level and perspective, rather than the rather more abstract-metaphorical writing analogies of Asperger's Syndrome and Autism involving the imaginal planets of Aspergia, Irregullum and Divergium Spectra Prime and all that, I head now to the subject regarding Base 1, 2 and 3 mathematics and the machine code ASCII (American Standard Code Information Interchange).

    Now as child Base 1 mathematics (one object is 1, two objects is 2 and so on involving basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) ~ me and it got on noticeably well indeed during primary school, on the bright spark I was and university creature I would be theme, and then as a complete psychological set of spanners and crowbars in the works Base 2 mathematics and Algebra came along.

    The Algebra was a crash and burn scenario in that I have dyslexia, with the numbers and letters getting mistranslated into my mind, and mistransliterated out through my body, so that for instance: 6 becomes 9, and D becomes B, and multitude variations of all of that sort of thing.

    Base 2 mathematics (or binary) with zero representing nothing, and one representing something, which is all well and good for machines and all that ~ but it so could not work for me as a general model, for (as I have been learning during my evening coarse) if I had been taught Base 3 mathematics instead ~ where yes, no and/or maybe values are involved, in that 'something' is always represented as being the case relevant, not relevant, and or otherwise relevant ~ everything would have gone a lot better for me mathematically, and psychologically.

    Alas, binary 2D (two dimensional flat plain or page) mathematics was for me like putting both legs in only one leg of a pair of tight fitting dancing trousers and having to elegantly dance a quick step without hopping, with loads and loads of educational humiliation and eardrum abuse on getting it wrong ~ again and again and again. "Why don't you listen/pay attention?" was the general theme in secondary school. I was doing exactly as they told me according to Aspergian, and getting things right the wrong way, and get things completely wrong so much more often.

    None the less though, with the compensation of hyperlexia, I have always found recognising patterns as being an automatic state of affairs, and one thing and one thing alone stood out with the following:


    Elephant-in-the-room typed:

    065 115 116 111 110 105 115 104 101 100 032 068 101 101 112 084 104 111 117 103 104 116 033 032 067 114 105 107 101 121 032.


    which I actually saw as this:

    065 115 116 111 110 105 115 104 101 100 032 068 101 101 112 084 104 111 117 103 104 116 033 032 067 114 105 107 101 121 032.

    with all the meaningful relevance of:

    ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 032.

    Hello old friend thought I, time to learn to read another language then, as I have for my comparative religion and mysticism research a few times over the years, with characters and words going all aglow on the pages of texts there too.

    The next post of code that appeared aglow was the one that:


    Lone-warrior typed:

    073 032 097 109 032 105 110 032 116 111 116 097 108 032 097 103 114 101 101 109 101 110 116 032 119 105 116 104 032 121 111 117 114 032 115 101 110 116 105 109 101 110 116 046 115 117 099 104 032 116 105 109 101 032 097 110 100 032 099 111 110 115 105 100 101 114 097 116 105 111 110 032 116 097 107 101 110 032 116 111 032 114 101 115 112 111 110 100 032 116 111 032 109 101 046 097 119 101 115 111 109 101 046

    Or for relevance factor and those that do not see patterns so well:

    ### 032 ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### ### ### 032 ### ### 032 ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ###

    Well thought I (with a huge contrast vibe strong on the go) this '032' business could be a 'space' coding, with the rest of the 'letter' coding appearing dark by comparison? Perhaps so . . . and off I pondered to bed, and upon arising and rousing my computer, and logging on here ~ transliterations there were and I decided more directly, working out as much as I could along the way, to do as follows with:


    Elephantintheroom's coding:

    065 115 116 111 110 105 115 104 101 100 032 068 101 101 112 084 104

      A     s       t      o     n       i      s      h     e      d             D     e     e     p      T      h 

     

    111 117 103 104 116 033 032 067 114 105 107 101 121 032.

      o      u     g      h      t       !             C     r       i       k     e     y           .

    It is possible perhaps that my pedantic me was picking up on a numeric typo with the last code being 032 rather than 033, maybe?

    Asked he an almost complete novice in this field! Rolling eyes


    And with Lonewarrior's coding:

    073 032 097 109 032 105 110 032 116 111 116 097 108 032 097 103 114

       I             a     m              i       n             t       o     t      a        l             a      g      r

    101 101 109 101 110 116 032 119 105 116 104 032 121 111 117 114 032

      e     e      m     e      n     t              w     i      t      h               y      o     u      r           

    115 101 110 116 105 109  101 110 116 046 115 117 099 104 032 116 105

       s     e      n      t      i     m        e     n      t       ,      s      u      c     h             t       i    

    109 101 032  097 110 100 032 099 111  110 115 105 100 101 114 097 116

      m     e              a      n     d             c      o       n      s      i      d     e      r      a      t  

    105 111 110 032 116 097 107 101 110 032 116 111 032 114 101 115 112

       i      o      n              t     a      k     e      n              t      o              r      e      s     p

    111 110 100 032 116 111 032 109 101 046 097 119 101 115 111 109 101

      o      n     d              t      o              m    e      .      a     w      e     s      o     m     e   

    046

       .


    I have seriously not enjoyed myself so much in ages doing these word puzzles, contented satisfaction joy factor ten, bonus, thanks for getting me into this Elephantintheroom, and Lonewarrior, major major bonus! Thanks. (X) Hugging (X)


  • Note: As I wrote that last, I am aware of your writing two replies, yet I can only see one. This is why, concerning this Thread, I must choose to "Let It Go" (...still trying not to sing upon the Christmas Theme, there)...

    I really very much mean it when I say the Thank You. And to all of you.

  • Good Evening. I thank you especially for your remaining upon this battlefield, with myself. But as Mr. LoneWarrior said, this is becoming difficult here, and so in a ten-minute madness, I began a new Thread... but I might not be able to continue it...

    Thank You so very much for supporting me, during my uncertainty. I recognise a Program in C when I see it. Yet I say again that my devices are cutting out, and what happened was that all of this sort of thing is still in my Brain...

    I wait to 'Cee' what happens to the new Thread. I cannot Thank all of you enough, yet I can say Thank You Very Kindly and Happy New Year (s).

    This Thread is too long, gives many Errors, and that is why I must remember it yet "Let It Go" (trying not to sing, there)...

  • Wouldn't it be quicker to write a program in C/Python

    Yes:

    #!/usr/bin/env python

    import sys

    for line in sys.stdin:

      print(''.join([chr(int(token)) for token in line.split()]))

  • The entire time, I was honestly thinking this: 'Wouldn't it be quicker to write a program in C/Python, and translate it that way?"...!

    You mean like this:

    #include <stdio.h>

    #include <stdlib.h>

    #include <errno.h>

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])

    {

      int chr;

      unsigned int value = 0;

      while ((chr = getchar()) != EOF) {

        switch (chr) {

          case ' ':

          case '\t':

          case '\n':

            /* delimiter found */

            putchar(value);

            value = 0;

            break;

          case '0': case '1':

          case '2': case '3':

          case '4': case '5':

          case '6': case '7':

          case '8': case '9':

            value *= 10;

            value += (chr - '0');

            break;

          default:

            exit(ENOTSUP);

        }

      }

      putchar('\n');

      return 0;

    }

  • This is in Reply to DongFeng5.

    It took me a very long while. And I do only Log in late and after dark (I am in secret a Winged-Werewolf, maybe.). And... well what happened, in short, was, that I try to translate your Post by hand, but then had to Copy it off, transfer it to a Laptop, add ".txt" to the file, Print it twice, and then translate it again by hand... again.

    The entire time, I was honestly thinking this: 'Wouldn't it be quicker to write a program in C/Python, and translate it that way?"...!

    I understood the first bulk of the reply, but not (...yet?) the second. Thank You for the compliment and for letting me know that I was correct. But my device is truly giving a lot of Errors and omissions, and it is indeed old. Nothing to do with NAS. This Post is to thank yourself,  & LoneWarrior, DeepThought, Oktanol, and all for replying to me. 

    ...I am not gone yet! I keep saying that I *am* on my way out yet I do not know exactly when, and that is the problem...! Happy New Year to all!

  • My device (EReader) is no longer showing the exchange between myself, Oktanol, and LoneWarrior as posted recently

    Hi , I have also seen some odd behaviour with some portions of threads seemingly disappearing for a while, only to turn up again later. So it may not be your device, but merely something "suboptimal" with the forums.

    086 101 114 121 032 112 101 114 099 101 112 116 105 118 101 032 111 102 032 121 111 117 032 116 111 032 115 112 111 116 032 116 104 097 116 032 116 104 101 121 032 119 101 114 101 032 117 115 105 110 103 032 100 101 099 105 109 097 108 032 114 101 112 114 101 115 101 110 116 097 116 105 111 110 115 032 111 102 032 065 083 067 073 073 032 099 104 097 114 097 099 116 101 114 115 046 032 084 104 101 032 111 116 104 101 114 115 032 097 114 101 032 114 105 103 104 116 032 116 104 097 116 032 104 101 120 097 100 101 099 105 109 097 108 032 105 115 032 109 111 114 101 032 099 111 109 109 111 110

    But why stop there?

    074 114 032 112 098 104 121 113 032 098 115 032 112 098 104 101 102 114 032 099 101 098 116 101 114 102 102 032 103 098 032 069 066 071 049 051 032 118 115 032 108 098 104 032 106 118 102 117 046

  • Dysallowed Cynosure wrote:

    Greeetings to you, for I was constantly monitoring this area - literally! of the Thread


    Affirmations of the heart warming sort in return to you DC, and I had been from 15:00 to 01:00 ish responding to a post in this area myself ~ literately-ish! ;-) 


    Dysallowed Cynosure wrote:

    and may have bad news... for myself. My device (EReader) is no longer showing the exchange between myself, Oktanol, and LoneWarrior as posted recently... regardless of buttons or load more/less or anything!


    This supposed bad news for yourself would be bad news for us also, really bad news actually. I hope it is a temporary glitch, or an easily resolvable one ~ if your listening technological fairy godmother with auto daily update on all wishes to avoid pumpkin disasters and all that?


    Disallowed Cynosure wrote:

    I think that I may finally be on the way out (with this EReader)... To anyone reading, don't sweat it -Please - I have said before that this might happen and that you can carry on without me. I really mean that. Do not worry! Thanks!


    Should you be, and hopefully not, away for a while, I will not as you ask worry, but instead keeping the light shining out for your return, as a pleasure to be sure.


  • Greeetings to you, for I was constantly monitoring this area - literally! of the Thread - and may have bad news... for myself. My device (EReader) is no longer showing the exchange between myself, Oktanol, and LoneWarrior as posted recently... regardless of buttons or load more/less or anything! I think that I may finally be on the way out (with this EReader)... To anyone reading, don't sweat it -Please - I have said before that this might happen and that you can carry on without me. I really mean that. Do not worry! Thanks!


  • Disallowed Cynosure wrote:

    This Thread is over, I assume. And so is the Boxing Day Thread, I assume.


    Technically speaking, we're still on the go here given the twelve days of Christmas, at the very least. As for making an Ass of yourself though ~ most certainly and irrevocable not, rest assured upon that.

    Seasonal Greetings by the way and many festive anime sparkles and rainbows to you.



  • Lone-warrior wrote:

    Dear DT are you sure you are aspergian?


    Yup, Aspergian born and bred ~ on Aspergia, and all that.


    Lone-warrior wrote:

    We are indeed both me and Ellie x from Divergium Spectra Prime But these are not vector beams for this is our language,ellie and I x have this as our first language,


    Wow, both of you being Aspergians from Divergium Spectrum Prime ~ that is wondrous and amazing in that most Ariadne of mazes ways. As for your language not being vector beams (or linguistic forms and structures not relating to or vectoring in upon objects and states of affairs in the universe) obviously that can only be and remain to be wondrous and amazing in that most Ariadne of mazes ways.  


    Lone-warrior wrote:

    As aspergians born I am happy to interpret it for you thus.

    Ellie typed this.

    065 115 116 111 110 105 115 104 101 100 032 068 101 101 112 084 104 111 117 103 104 116 033 032 067 114 105 107 101 121 032.

    which translates as!

    “Astonished DeepThought! Crikey.”

    and my reply to your long thought out reply was this.

    076 111 108 046

    Which translates as

    “Lol.”

    see easy as an aspergian.


    Easy for some Divergium Spectrum Prime Aspergians, of course, not at all easy though for some of us from Aspergia, especially considering that I was born and bred in the county of Dyslexia, and grew up in the town of Dyscalculia.

    Obviously one or all of yours and Elelephant-in-the-rooms ancestors must of come from the province of Numerologia, and possibly even the city of Calculia itself, perhaps?


    Lone-warrior wrote:

    Oh and my added response to Ellie’s was with her consent

    073 032 097 109 032 105 110 032 116 111 116 097 108 032 097 103 114 101 101 109 101 110 116 032 119 105 116 104 032 121 111 117 114 032 115 101 110 116 105 109 101 110 116 046 115 117 099 104 032 116 105 109 101 032 097 110 100 032 099 111 110 115 105 100 101 114 097 116 105 111 110 032 116 097 107 101 110 032 116 111 032 114 101 115 112 111 110 100 032 116 111 032 109 101 046 097 119 101 115 111 109 101 046

    Translated are my kind words to you !

    “I am in total agreement with your sentiment.such time and consideration taken to respond to me.awesome.”


    Well thankyou very and most kindly. Although I must state that I have no sense of time (coming from the town of Dyscalculia and all) so there is no issue with that illusion of time thing, but none the less and the all the more I adore writing words to awesome people in general, and responding to everyone as such just makes it all the more awesome yet still.

    Not doubt in or about this fact to be sure.


    Lone-warrior wrote:

    so if  you need help with our language do not feel shy or confused just ask,I am sure Ellie or I x can give you some help.


    Well, the thing with being Aspergian (no matter where you're from and what ever more or less linguistic and or vice-versa numeric dialect of Aspergian language you happen to use), here proven evidently once more again (recalling your request for your own personal pack of seasonal Wotsits) is that had I even thought to ask, or had I even imagined to get confused ~ you had already thought about, requested permission from Elephant-in-the-room, and transliterated both of your numerologies into kindly considered words.

    (X) Hugging (X)


    Lone-warrior wrote:

    much love to you or how we say 

    066 101 032 107 105 110 100 032 097 110 100 032 114 101 115 112 101 099 116 032 111 110 101 032 097 110 111 116 104 101 114 046 120 040 041 120

    Translated for you is

    Be kind and respect one another.x()x


    (X) Hugging (X)


  • ...If it was that much fun, New Thread, maybe...?

  • To Oktanol AND LoneWarrior...

    I am ridiculously grateful for your replies, and appreciate them very very much. So I was correct... but true enough, this is not at the end of the Thread, and so it is very hard to not only find the Post, it is also hard to find because this Thread is indeed very long. As I say, Thank You So Very Much for taking the time to tell me whether I was correct or not. Yet in closing, I must agree that this *is* "getting very frustrating"... (especially for "Old" devices like mine!)

  • thank you for explaining this as my internet is slow, I have to type each letter slowly and time it as the screen keeps jumping about, so online/off line/online/ off line,sometimes the whole page goes blank so I have to refresh and start again,

    as you say there is no problem typing on here even after Christmas, 

    i just  wish I could have been here to say earlier and save DC any worry.

    so HEXADECIMAL Lol.

    no fun. Getting very frustrating.