JUST FOR FUN - Autistic Christmas Cards!!

Autistic Christmas cards!   

Also. Available also from my local library,  or should I say my former library.  It's now known as a 'hub'

Thus hub, still.has a few books, but you can buy charity Christmas cards from all the charities . Plenty of computers, you can hand in letters and documents to the local council, it has brand new toilets (only one.  It's disabled and stinks).  It has new purpose built meeting rooms with glass walls.

And finally. The local post office is closing down.  And moving inside this 'hub'  haven't seen an ATM. 

Is it just me but I spend lots of time looking at the surroundings, counting windows, letters in banners, looking for any pattern that exists, of coarse I now know this to be my way of stimming as the more anxious I am the more I count, over and over even when I know I counted it right the first time, having an atrocious memory recall I am never quite sure if my recollection.

festive season, bah humbug!

Is it just me but I spend lots of time looking at the surroundings, counting windows, letters in banners, looking for any pattern that exists, of coarse I now know this to be my way of stimming as the more anxious I am the more I count, over and over even when I know I counted it right the first time, having an atrocious memory recall I am never quite sure if my recollection.

festive season, bah humbug!

I've learned so much trivia in my life just because I discovered a new word and couldn't resist finding out all about it.

) ( said:

I was always put down Or derided for using “posh” words, I still get that now

Likewise; that's why idiosyncratic is one of my favourites!

Aqua lauryl suphate.

Sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), an accepted contraction of sodium lauryl ether sulfate(SLES), is an anionic detergent and surfactant found in many personal care products (soaps, shampoos, toothpaste etc.). SLES is an inexpensive and very effective foaming agent.^[1]SLES, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), ammonium lauryl sulfate (ALS), and sodium pareth sulfateare surfactants that are used in many cosmetic products for their cleaning and emulsifying properties. They behave similarly to soap.

Is it purely as it’s an unused unfamiliar word to most that we can claim full use of?

I have been tempted to research it so I can understand why it is present.

I love complex words, even as a youngster living on a council estate being dragged up just like every other kid,  I was always put down Or derided for using “posh” words, I still get that now, take derided for example, 

If a word better conveys something then use it, it better describes and exists to do such.

oh,,,going off topic,,, sorry. 

) ( said:

Aqua laurel sulphate he he

Oh yes! How many times I have read those words - and you're not the only other person I've met on autism forums that has them permanently burned into their brain!

Aqua laurel sulphate he he, read it many times whilst in the bathroom, 

erm? 33!

argh,,,

sorted use a small (a). =32,, one of my favourite numbers btw.

2 4 6 8 10 Only times table I learnt, sort of, and we had a vinyl record single with them on,  pinky and perky no less, 

Seems to run in the family in a strange kind of way for me. My grandfather on my mum's side was a type-setter back in the hot-metal days, and my dad was a proof-reader and setter of the daisy-wheel printer generation, specialising in maths and science books. From my mum, I get the fascination with puns, figures of speech, and nonsense poetry, and from what she's told me, I suspect that she was a hyperlexic kid too. I do read a lot, but often it's just the beauty of the words themselves that captivates me, totally disregarding the meaning.

Lol. There are 20 individual parts to your user name.

or maybe 77 when the sides and change of direction are counted!

T equals two if just the two main lines are counted, or eight if all the outer edges are counted, etc etc, yawn, off to check the 77 answer, as I prefer equal numbers, argh,,, will find a cheat to equal it up then inwardly smile as I do.

#FontSunday is one of my favourite things on Twitter. I had a brilliant typography book when I was a teenager and I am still font aware. 

No, it's not just you. It's words rather than counting for me, maybe a hangover from childhood hyperlexia. I'm not trying to comprehend what the slide-show or hand-outs are supposed to be telling me, but looking for favourite words and thinking of their synonyms, picking out spelling and grammatical errors, trying to name the fonts, getting picky about word-wrapping and kerning. If there's no slide show, I start compulsively reading posters and signs, brand names on electrical gizmos. Half of the notes I take are just little word-games to distract myself. I do the same if I'm out and about somewhere stressful too, on a bus/train journey, beermats on a pub wall, shampoo bottles when I'm on the loo, etc.