Published on 12, July, 2020
Come on guys 'fess up about all your secrets or not secrets but the things you don't do that everyone else seems too!
I haven't played a computor game since the late 1980's, I can't use a joystick or a controller.
I've never read Harry Potter or watched any of the films.
I don't like chips or fries.
Cars.
Why are they status symbols?
They are just a tin can with wheels to me ...
Debbie When I was doing my assessment, I kept on emailing them with random thoughts that I thought might help them assess me, There were loads - they were glad to see the back of me, I'm sure. And probably most of them just meant that I was crazy, not just autistic.
Anyway, this one of yours made me dig out the email. I said...
"I don't care about cars. People love cars. They are a tool. I often don't recognise our own car for a few seconds. I have no idea about other cars apart from maybe the colour and rough size. I was out on a date once many years ago and due to my other problem with having a rubbish sense of direction, I thought my car had been stolen because I was looking in the wrong car park. She said later that she was amazed because I was just “oh, well…” and not bothered."
I don't remember having to write anything for my assesment, I remeber being given a tessetaltion test and refused to do it as I'd had one at a learning difficulties assessment and the assessor said she'd never seen anyone do like me. I poked the pieces around trying to get them to fit, she said most people picked them up and turned them about.
The order that the posts with replies appear is nuts. I hope that the new system that we change to in September is better.
Sorry can't get the hang of this I replied to myself instead of to you. Please see above.
Sounds good
Yes I know what you mean about Google maps. So what I do is use car mode not walking mode. Trouble is you have to go sometimes a longer route one way streets for example I go the car way.
JLyn that's lovely! Now I wonder if one day I should make a thread "things you wrote/said in your assessment that didn't actually appear in your report and so just mean that you are bonkers". Regarding Google Maps - it's great to have, but my problem is that I can't orientate myself on the map. I have to start walking in a random direction until I can see the dot move. Then I can go the right way.
JLyn that's lovely. Now I wonder if one day I should make a thread "things you wrote/said in your assessment that didn't actually appear in your report and so just mean that you are bonkers". Regarding Google Maps - it's great to have, but my problem is that I can't orientate myself on the map. I have to start walking in a random direction until I can see the dot move. Then I can go the right way.
I don't know why the number 1 appeared in my message. Error.
I’ve never been very good at hibernation …Chao [fades into the hibernation background]
FH (pls no PMs untill new forum) said:Don’t you know the license plate number?
With regard to my own car (as you know I don't presently have one) that's the point at which I usually realise.
By-the-way, I'm not sure your form of hibernating is allowed under the official laws of hibernating.
Don’t you know the license plate number?
Debbie said:I've also tried to get into loads of other peoples cars, not just mistaking my own for others, but my companion's cars for others.
I've also tried to get into loads of other peoples cars, not just mistaking my own for others, but my companion's cars for others.
Mark (formerly Spikey) said:I was out on a date once many years ago and due to my other problem with having a rubbish sense of direction, I thought my car had been stolen because I was looking in the wrong car park
I've done that too
I've also lost my car in a car park and it had to be found by the attendants.
I’ve noticed with this thread that there is a lot of overlap but also differences. I have a small essay on my laptop for the assessor. One thing I puzzle with is why I have absolutely no sense of direction, for over 30 years I drove coaches, eventually I was put only on school contracts and the same bus route. It was the only way of guaranteeing I would return. My wife has watched me come out of shops and go off in a random direction.