From an old, old post at faceblind

I'm not faceblind. At least, I don't think I am - people are everlastingly recognizing me when I don't recognize them. I think this is because I don't notice them, though.

However, I do like to call myself face-visually-impaired. I do have *some* trouble recognizing people whom I should recognize, especially "out of context" (recognizing a professor anywhere but in class, for example), and if I'm stressed or tired or sick my problems rise. *shrugs* It happens. There's rarely, if ever, a need to bring any of this up, but somehow I got into a conversation with somebody about this once, prompting the answer "well, why don't you/they try harder???" Um, right. What part of the word faceblind don't you understand? This isn't face-didn't-try-hard-enough or face-don't-give-a-shit, it's faceblind. I never got through to her on that part. Honestly, it's like talking to a brick wall. Why couldn't she try harder to not be... Ahem. Sorry.

On that note, I present This beautiful link. Learn it, love it, and no more sillies, okay?

Announcement.

It's come to my attention that some people (more than one) have quotes from me on their userinfo. At least one on breastfeeding, another on autism. This is cool. Seriously, I have no problem with that. I would like it, though, that if you quote me on you userinfo or non-LJ website that you tell me. You can quote me in entries with no warning, I'll either see it or not, but userinfo type things do deserve a note.

Notice that I'm not stopping you from quoting me. I think it's cool, I like it. Even if you quote me to insult me (not the case in any I've noticed), I'll live. Really. But I like to know if it's someplace permanantly visible.

Sold back (most of) my books today...

And barely made enough to cover the ONE book I bought. It's a scam! You go to the store, sell your books, they give you money, you enter the store, pick out your book(s), and the money goes back in the cashbox! They don't even let you use B&N discount cards, which sucks when the book in question is only available at BC. So you get poor, and they're making money hand over fist.

Hm. Hand over fist. Weird expression. I wonder what it means. (Notice there is a period at the end of the sentence, as I am not asking a question, merely stating an emotion.) Of course, I know what it means, I just used it after all, what I mean is "I wonder why it means what it means, and I'm far too lazy to look it up right now".

Still, it makes more sense than "backwards" expressions, or expressions that have become such cliches that any meaning was lost. For example, consider "he was head over heels in love". That doesn't make ANY sense! You're always head over heels, except when you slouch, and then you're head over toes. The original, and logically correct form is "he was heels over head in love". This makes sense - somebody was so much in love that they were completely mixed up. Or "you want to have your cake and eat it too". Well, yeah. In order to eat my cake I first must have it. The earlier form runs something like "you want to eat your cake and then still have it", which makes sense. You can't keep something you've eaten. And then there are expressions which aren't backwards, merely eroded. "The proof is in the pudding." Proof of what, exactly? Where does pudding come into it, except in strange episodes of Monk? Nowhere, unless you say that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. This makes sense, because it says exactly what it means - you can tell how good something is by trying it out, you don't need other people to tell you how good it is.

*sighs* Language evolution is, generally, a good thing, but sometimes it just sucks.

I don't get it.

What is it about asperger that attracts the trolls? We don't even get good trolls - this is the shittiest trolling I've ever seen! Where's the drama? The entertainment? The moderators?

Y'know what? I hate a tiny thing about myself.

I have no sense of time while awake. Seriously, NONE. Minutes, hours, they're all the same to me.

However, I can always wake up at the correct time just by planning on it. I do not understand this, but it's consistently true. Unfortunately, since I usually wake up just before the alarm clock goes off, I lie in bed until it goes off. So if, for some reason, it doesn't go off, I trust in the fact that it's not going off and just wait until it does.

But if it's not set, I don't realize how long I'm lying in bed, because I have no sense of the passing of time. None.

This makes oversleeping really expletive annoying, because I know I was up on time, I just didn't realize it.

*blinkblinkblink*

Let'se see. I'm in jail. I escape. I go to the store, buy some beer... and then head back to the jail to share it with the other prisoners! Then I leave again, buy some more... and go back to the jail! Yeah!