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.