Preliminary vocabulary list...

[conuly]

To be updated as I go on. I think I'll send it to my mom and ask her to print it, handwriting it is such a trial:

si quis: if anyone (I should've know that, after all: after si, nisi, num, and ne, all the ali's drop away)
tamen: yet, however (another one I SHOULD KNOW)
pinguis: fat, fertile
oportet: it is proper
iniussa: spontaneous (duh, it's in-iussa!)
quoque: also (and I'm not the only one who brainfarts on this)
myricae: tamarisk
nemus: grove
gratior: welcome (?)
impleo: fill up
mugitibus: mooing
forte: by chance
hesterno: yesterday
venas: no idea. Help?
procul: from a distance
tantum: so great (yet another word I ought to know)
delapsa: fallen (it has a lapse, easy to recall)
ansa: handle
cantharus: goblet
luso: trick
iniciunt: throw on
pingit: paints
frontis: forehead
rupes: cliff
simul: at the same time, together (simultaneously)
vultis: you wish, are willing
tum: then (wow, I really need to work on my adverbs)
inane: emptiness (makes sense, I just have to stop saying inane)
coacta: were gathered together
concreverit: grew
pontus: the sea
discludere: to divide, set off
summotis: drive off (the motis is a big hint)
lapides: stone
latrantibus: bark, bark at (participle, though)


Any advice for mnemonics is welcomed heartily.

Comments

Linky time!

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Totally cheating here by leaping in on conuly's LJ. I tend to do that. Bad me. *g*

I've known that I'm an autie for about 3 years now, my partner is autie, my friends are all auties... There's nothing wrong with it; we're just different from NTs. As one very bright autie kid I know said, "I can understand trying to cure things that kill
people or make them sick, but why try to cure something that just makes people different?" :-)

Here are some links for you to check out:
The *good* YahooGroups for autistics
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/autisticspectrumtreehouse
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/autadvo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AS-and-proud-of-it/
(Yeah, spank me, I'm promoting a group I run...lol)

Great sites "by and for" our kind
http://home.att.net/~ascaris1/
http://www.geocities.com/autistry/oddizms.html
http://www.isn.net/~jypsy/
http://www.autistics.org/
Particular areas of Autistics.org to check out:
http://amanda.autistics.org/
http://www.autistics.org/library
http://isnt.autistics.org/

And finally, one of the coolest things I've seen -- the Autistic Adults Picture Project!
http://www.isn.net/~jypsy/AuSpin/a2p2.htm

I also have a LJ Flist category specifically made up of my openly-autie friends, so you can all make friends with one another. :-)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/moggymania/friends/Auties

OK, I'd better shut up now before conuly strangles me for taking over her LJ... ;-)

Re: Linky time!

[conuly]

Nah, keep it up... so long as I don't feel bound to reply when I'm studying, I'm happy.

Re: Linky time!

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

OK. After all, it's easier to reply to people on somebody else's LJ than even look at the avalanche of email I get privately asking for help... *snicker*

No need to feel pressured to reply to my comments in anything resembling a timely manner anyway... I'd be a big hypocrite if I expected a reply at all. (I'm *awful* at answering comments.)

Re: Linky time!

[soyfaerie.livejournal.com]

Do you have to go to a psychiatrist to get diagnosed or what? Cos I do NOT like psychiatrists/psychologists.

I'm actually fine with being weird, it's just the annoying people on accident and not knowing what anyone is thinking at any given time that I'd like to be able to change.

Thanks for the links!!

Re: Linky time!

[conuly]

To get diagnosed? Yes. To get enough information to form a good idea of whether or not you're "on the spectrum"? Not hardly.

Re: Linky time!

[soyfaerie.livejournal.com]

So a lot of these people haven't been diagnosed? I'm just curious since I'm new to this.

Re: Linky time!

[conuly]

Which are "these people"? I'd say that yes, a lot of autistics aren't diagnosed. Out of those who call themselves "autistic", "aspie", "autie" or whatever... I don't know. I suspect that the later you find out about all this, the less likely you are to get a diagnosis.