MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'Misadventures from a Different Perspective' source. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:51:04 +0100 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/11/group-work-continued.html Some group work isn't so bad. Other group work makes you want to scream and rip heads off. I am amazed that no matter what I do, I always end up in some position of leadership within groups despite attempts to avoid doing so. When things need to be done, I can't just let them be neglected, I have this need to make things work.If I see something that isn't working properly or could function far more effectively and efficiently, I know what it could be and what it could become if it were modified or guided in the right manner. This isn't always an ideal approach for group work. Seeking to find applicable solutions wherever possible tends to annoy a lot of people that want to get it done and over with. I'm far more comfortable having the option to go back and edit things, anxiety usually hits... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1945332 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:13:00 +0100 1945332 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/09/goodbye-brain.html I was going to post something really relevant and interesting to some...then I did almost all my homework. I actually have to work at this, likely because I don't know any of the terminology. It isn't something I have studied before (so I can't reprise most of my undergraduate time and breeze through everything with decent grades), and I can tell I will do better in one class than in the other simply because group work isn't mandatory.The professor in the class that I can tell I'll do alright in is not the extreme extrovert that the professor in the other class is. I am quite introverted, but I have learned to speak up for myself and to say what needs to be said (and I'm told I'm quite mercurial, but anyone with ADHD usually seems that way, we're following a new line of thought and going o... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1841096 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:43:00 +0100 1841096 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/09/respect.html Try being respectful of the background of someone you care about. Ask them about it. Go out of your way to buy and read a book. It is amazing how some of the elderly come out of their own minds when you interact with them in regard to subjects they enjoy....or stim on.If you really want to know incredible people, talk to your own grandparents. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1779312 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:58:00 +0100 1779312 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/08/reverse-stereotyping.html A friend of mine volunteered, insisted someone go with me, and went with me to a hospital for a rather stressful medical test (I was having an MRI done). Everyone at the hospital seemed to think that my friend was the patient and I was there as her support, likely because of a rather obvious physical disability.It didn't occur to me that people would assume she was the one there for the test and that I was the friend there for assistance. We both thought it was funny at the time.In a way it is disheartening to think that the more visible the disability the more people will want to believe that you need extra help from others more seemingly physically able. More so when all you see is your friend in a person many people recognize from public transit and around town because of their disabili... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1739261 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:02:00 +0100 1739261 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/07/read-pi-sheet-before-you-prescribe.html Upon reading the PI sheet for a drug a doctor prescribed for me that can cause increase in production of a certain hormone that could exacerbate some issues I'm already having. I am amazed that this individual is allowed to prescribe when such a key area of the present problem could be worsened by taking this medication for any period of time.This is the same individual that told someone I know that their c-reactive protein being so high wasn't anything to worry about. Fortunately the individual with the high CRP is now on a daily dose of aspirin.I understand that a general practitioner shouldn't know everything about very specific areas of medicine, but they should at the very least check for interactions with newly arisen medical issues undiagnosed as of yet. (Source: Misadventures from ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1671589 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:59:00 +0100 1671589 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/07/tsa.html What I didn't have the opportunity to type relating to my vacation was TSA's reaction to me without a significant amount of benzodiazepines in my system. I was selected for random screening by the Behavior Detection Officers (I must warn those of you outside the United States that that particular link might not work. If you are so inclined to read up on why I might be a terrorist based on displays of rather autistic behaviors in a stressful situation run an internet search for "tsa behavior detection officers," as this will yield the same destination rather high on the first page of a search). It wasn't pretty. Mom made me take valium on the plane, which I did before arrival at the airport on the way to Missouri, but not on the way home.Since I am a 20-something white female of a non-threa... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1660830 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:18:00 +0100 1660830 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/07/vacation.html Technically I'm still on vacation. I'm in the airport, using their free wifi before catching the two-part flight home.This quadrant of family a lot nicer and more fun than the gender opposite quadrant family (quadrant because of which parent and which grandparent they are attached to, so we'll call this new group of people quadrant III, and the group I'm most familiar with quadrant I)... who are rather deficient in several areas (at least the ones I have met, and I have met a lot of them. They think we're strange!). Quadrant III are intelligent people, despite some obvious gaps in their logic processes, which we all have. The gaps seem to be regional, differing depending on where and what type of belief system you were brought up or taught to run around in.I don't think mom "warned" the ne... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1560935 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:10:00 +0100 1560935 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/06/let-them-eat-chocolate-cake.html I was baked a cake for my birthday. The one wish I really had. A safe cake. With safe frosting. And I didn't have to bake it. Sadly, it really is exciting enough to blog about.Always being one to share the joy, I was more than happy to permit my father to take a piece to his gluten-intolerant coworker. They were absolutely thrilled. Happy early or late birthday, L. I like cake, too.As a conclusion to my birthday I had a second piece. Working graveyard, and accounting for me being born after midnight and before noon...it was close to within 24 hours-ish.I really will try to blog more often. I'll be on vacation next week. If I have internet I promise to blog on actual issues relevant to what was my cause for starting this blog. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526338 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:24:00 +0100 1526338 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-cats.html 1. Sitting in the middle of one lane in the road is a great way to get hit. Not everyone stops for the "who goes there?" look. Staying there and staring after being honked at is not smart.2. The opening of a drawer is not an invitation to jump into that drawer.3. Purring and biting simultaneously confuse the humans.4. Rubbing up against the jar of catnip and causing it to scoot across the floor will not open the jar, no matter how much you will it to be so. That requires opposable thumbs.5. Asking to be let under the covers, getting under, then turning around and standing half under, half out lets in cold air and decreases the chances of being let back under for the rest of the human's allotted time sleeping for that day.6. Claws are sharp.7. Composure grooming after breaking something doe... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432567 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:09:00 +0100 1432567 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/04/laundry-regrets.html Have you ever put an item of clothing in the dryer that you hadn't in the past, then regretted finally giving up hanging it to dry over the shower curtain rod because the flaps over the back pockets now have a distinctive curl that wasn't there before? Or a pucker in a seam that wasn't there before because while the item was 100% cotton, the manufacturers were cheap and used a cotton coated polyester thread to sew the garment? My pants might actually stay up now (I have yet to test this), but the messy pocket flaps bother me.A small note to a less than bright coworker: not emptying the lint screen and running another load is a fire hazard. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1395150 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:12:00 +0100 1395150 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/03/are-you-old-enough-to-have-this-job.html I fail to understand why being thought younger than you are is a compliment. When you are young, sapience is often perceived as an affront by peers, and an "old head on young shoulders," or the same as the younger generation when understanding or knowledge exceeding that of the elder is displayed. Yes, there are other reactions on the part of individuals... I'm going with the vast majority here based on my very biased personal experience regarding such matters.Anyways... the title of this blog post was given to me today by a client on the phone. He told me that I sound about 15, to which I replied "I'm 22!" He then said that most people take being perceived as younger than they are as a compliment, and that I'm still quite young for the job I do. When you're carded for sharpies and are qui... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1340675 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:51:00 +0100 1340675 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/02/time.html It is something you can appreciate more when you have a full time job. Especially a graveyard one...I'll get over it.I had to remind myself that I know of people that actually read this blog (someday I will figure out why), to get myself to post on one of my days off. Those of you that know what job I have fully appreciate the irony of the situation however I am not inclined to disclose what I do for a paycheck here, so don't bother asking.Procrastination is a problem now. A department of music told me to not worry about getting my paperwork in "on time," so I really haven't bothered. I now realize that if I keep putting this off I will likely quit my job out of frustration and then would be in a very sorry state the next year applying for graduate school and fighting for financial aid wit... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1258240 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:44:00 +0100 1258240 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/01/master-of-music-in-music.html Why not confuse everyone? That way no one feels special...or so it seems with the case of graduate school admissions paper forms. The online ones do not seem to be much better, as they also have places for redundant information.I think it is the worst when every single form asks you for your life story, then has one question different such as criminal history. Or department, but not program of study... because most institutions like to have an accurate count of how many current students are in any given program of study, in addition to how many would like to attend. It seems logical to me.My favorite is when there is no program of study given because the degree saught is so specific for the university that there is no obvious answer for two blanks with different labels.I intend to go into ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1190050 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:47:00 +0100 1190050 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2008/01/things-ive-learned-last-year.html Despite seeming impossibilities, it never hurts to try to be the best friend you can be. Sometimes when you ask for help, others will aid you in your doing so.The legal system is easy to manipulate if a criminal really wants to avoid trial. Postponement is inevitable, and one day's notice is not enough for most professors when you are supposed to be gone but are there because a trial was delayed, yet again.People have a talent for deluding themselves into seeing what they want to see and believing what they want to be real. It can be impossible to shake them of their twisted view of reality, and doing so is incredibly stressful. Especially when it involves you.Honesty makes people mad.Higgins Calligraphy Waterproof Black Ink turns to a de-emulsified (possibly coagulated, but there was stil... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1124889 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:52:00 +0100 1124889 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/12/yearly-hunt-for-christmas-tree-stand.html It would be logical to have a designated nail on the wall in the garage to hang it on, but my family has a different method. Every year at the end of December--sometimes the beginning of January--we remove all the ornaments from the annual arboreal sacrifice and discard its earthly remains to the great outdoors (AKA the backyard, in the garden, where we have the burn pile). The tree stand... tends to go someplace where the person that puts it away insists they couldn't possibly forget where, and it is lost for just over eleven months.Mid-December comes around and the location of the tree stand is known by none. Last year my mom gave up and bought a new tree stand, which became tree stand #3. This year there was nearly a fourth, as youngest sister and I looked just about everywhere we could... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1104373 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:08:00 +0100 1104373 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/12/short-acting-adderall.html Thursday... I had a final. We were supposed to bring our creative components for a class, and I made something that remained unique. And lost it later that day after the second dose of adderall wore off and I forgot to take it because I was rather... spacey at the time.I stopped by Whole Foods on the way home, because gluten free flours are in rather short supply in my home town. All the flours were mixed up--if they had been a deck of cards, they would have been shuffled facing opposite directions. And they were out of tapioca flour (!). It took forty minutes to find what all I was looking for, which is quite a long time to spend under fluorescent lights in a sensory unfriendly environment. That and it was the end of the day, which had been spent writing papers, presenting a final project... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1080400 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:05:00 +0100 1080400 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/12/dear-abbycat.html Following is a list of the behaviors which result in you being thrown off the bed:Utilization of your tail as a paintbrush or a duster... on my face.Sidling up to be parallel with my face or head, flopping over onto my face, (known as the Full-on Face Flop).The Full-on Face Flop followed by rolling around on my face.Chasing your tail and nailing some part of my body by accident.Chasing your tail then going after some part of my body instead.Rolling on my hand to simulate my petting you, or to hint that you want to be petted.The above, but when my hand is retracted beneath the covers, attempting to claw your way underneath the covers.Petting me with your claws extended.Burrowing in my hair when I am too tired to braid it before bed.Burrowing in my hair and finding invisible mice in it, then... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1070275 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:21:00 +0100 1070275 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/10/spam.html My blog is a place for ME to post MY views. If I choose to promote a product, I will do the posting, summarizing, praising, backing, promoting, vindication for and about it--in MY words.You might have noticed the lack of ads on my blog. That's because I do not wish to have torture treatments for autism and quack therapies raved about in text for the world to read because this is a blog with a focus on autism. Even if it is a company I have no moral qualms with before spam is posted, I will not tolerate the promotion of ANYTHING (there are obvious exceptions, third parties recommending trying something or a specific method upheld by a group if a discussion develops in the comments, which happens on occasion! I like having open feedback without influence from blatant company promotions over ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965232 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:51:00 +0100 965232 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-i-wanted-to-say.html This started after the usual "Hi, I need to make an appointment" niceties, when I was notified that my wonderful gynecologist wouldn't be seeing me anymore because of specializing. Mostly I need to see her right now because I need antibiotics and well, I've blogged about what happens when I go on antibiotics...Receptionist: I'm sorry, the doctor is no longer seeing general gynecology patients. I can give you a list of numbers of places we're referring her patients to.Me: (Like hell you will.) You don't understand. I have a special case, I need the doctor to pick out a new one for me.Receptionist: Well, she isn't seeing general patients anymore.Me: Yeah, I got that already. Look, I wasn't diagnosed by laparoscopy and can't have laparoscopic surgery and the doctor is the only one that gets t... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=921776 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:17:00 +0100 921776 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/09/help.html Would someone please explain to me why nearly EVERYONE'S response to finding out I have a boyfriend is "oh good." In those exact words. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=909416 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:21:00 +0100 909416 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/09/happy-birthday-laptop-now-please-dont.html Now please don't die. I don't care that you have a three year warranty now, because if you do die (or depending on what part of you were to die), you could be replaced with a machine with similar specs, that probably doesn't have the hinge defect that you do (that still hasn't been fixed!)...But there would also be no linux partition (yet), and all the Dell Nonsense, Halves of Programs that Won't Really Work Until You Purchase the Full Program, and Spyware Promotional Offers would be on the new machine. All my modifications to windoze would be lost, but I could start over and fix the linux installation so that it uses both processors... meh.Seeing as I am now a commuting student, I need a machine with all my data on it where I have it best accessible, as it is on you. USB keys and other po... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=903414 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:34:00 +0100 903414 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/09/dear-parents.html This is a letter, cowritten by my youngest sister. We're smarter than to actually give it to them, but this should serve as an effective vent.Despite elevated stress levels due to Life Situations and what happens at the end of a life, especially the life of someone we are all quite close to, your behavior towards each other does effect other people, namely those residing in the same household with you. Yes, this individual is dying, but you (parent A) need to find some other way of dealing with them besides deciding they aren't there and that everything is going wrong because it is all someone else's fault, you just haven't figured out whose yet (examples include the old wifi router dying and parent A blaming it on us using it, the coffee maker not working properly in the morning with the ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=876077 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:11:00 +0100 876077 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/09/apparently.html I'm on spectrum, still asparagus green with Asperger's, but might not be ADHD. I found this out today at my rediagnosis appointment with a very stimmy nurse practitioner, who didn't make the rediagnosis into an unnecessary ordeal to protect "status" as an authority. She was actually VERY pleased that I could articulate the specific differences between my state on my meds, which meds, and off of them (thank you mom for helping me with figuring the wording for the situation I have the shape of but have difficulty finding words for because it just seems so damn obvious). In her opinion, because I can hyperfocus/fixate on "boring" things that are often time consuming and monotonous (such as beadwork, calligraphy, practicing scales, editing databases by hand), that I might not be ADHD. However,... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=845788 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:37:00 +0100 845788 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/09/back-again.html Sorry for disappearing, I had some Life Situations to deal with, including helping out a very good friend of mine the past few days.After returning to what is now my bedroom, the sister that lives elsewhere (the former owner of my bedroom) brought back the sister that still lives here, and stayed in my bedroom. Upon returning I found several things out of place and some objects added to my closet and the floor. So far my discoveries include:*The Bright Pink Shoe backpack, containing a plastic bag I have not yet investigated, hung in my closet*A mini cat track*A list of stones she left on my bedside table*My beadwork moved*A migraine headach study pamphlet left on my floor, partially under the mini cat track*My bed half-made*An additional cat food bowl*An earring keeper thing that I know is... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841769 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:20:00 +0100 841769 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/08/privacy-violations-and-i-haven.html I think Amanda Baggs said it all, or almost all of it. I know if I were sexually assaulted and there was not only photographic evidence of it, but it was posted by the offender in attempt to discredit me, I'd be... well, as it is, it makes me nauseus to think about the insult added to injury by the attacker.From what I've read on her blog, and from what she has told me (hey, I consider Kassiane to be among my closest friends and as she certainly appears to think the same of me, we TALK [and type]), and I gathered from conversations, not only was she generally abused sexually and mentally assaulted, but her wishes regarding her privacy were completely disregarded.I know I am not the first to ask, but please report the illicit photographs to blogger (this is the offending post, and no I will... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=786754 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:13:00 +0100 786754 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/07/parents-fish-berries-progress.html Apparently the local grocery store had pantyhose on clearance. For $0.25 a package. Mom bought me TEN PAIRS of control top pantyhose. I don't even wear pantyhose unless I have a performance. Then I wear thigh-highs or knee-highs because I can't breathe properly in control top. "But they stay up better."Thanks, mom. I appreciate the thought, but... the elastic will die before I wear any of it... especially the navy blue.Fish update: Koi has been moved into isolation (in a tupperware container on the kitchen counter). The other fish were picking on him. If he dies, I would rather it be from causes other than the rest of his school turning on him. All the fish have been given bits of a frozen pea. I fail to understand why goldfish food manufacturers do not include enough fiber in the "all-pur... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=763048 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:54:00 +0100 763048 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/07/change-is-bad.html I got my hair cut. 8" is now gone... and the ends and underneath are trying to curl. It is still long enough my faceblind friends should be able to recognize me... I just can't tuck it in my pants anymore.A few weeks ago I bought Abbycat pet fish. They all finally have names! I'll get a picture up soon. BostonSam named two of them. Their names and descriptions are: Koi (he's red and white, marked like most koi are. Currently he isn't doing very well... he has gas, which can be deadly for goldfish), Benvolio (who is orange), Walter (he's the smallest. He is orange and black), Zlanu (orange-red with a white face, belly, and fin tips), and Ooh, Shiny (all white. Very shiny). The fish cost a dollar total. Their tank was about thirty dollars (it cleans itself!). Abbycat likes to watch them swim... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=760513 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:53:00 +0100 760513 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/07/lreii-now-functional.html I present rettdevil.org's Least Restrictive Environment II. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740505 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:22:00 +0100 740505 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-been-awhile.html Yeah. I've been moving, have finished moving. Kind of. All my stuff is here but it isn't necessarily unpacked. Abbycat has a new entertainment center, pictures of which will be posted soon... as soon as I find my adapter. Or I could just use the digital camera instead of my phone's camera... That would probably be faster than trying to find my microsd card adapter.Anyways, I'm alive, much to the dismay of some of my readers. Alive, happy, and working my way back into usefulness in the online autism community. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=730415 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:05:00 +0100 730415 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/05/as-requested.html I present, the Abbycat. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620245 Thu, 17 May 2007 19:21:00 +0100 620245 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/05/sometimes-my-body-amazes-even-me.html Since I have been using Tiger Paws wrist braces while playing the flute to prevent the dorsal hyperflexion, an interesting side effect has occurred that I did not foresee. My fingers and wrists have become even more hypermobile. How incredibly annoying.I *still* don't have an official diagnosis for Ehlers Danlos, which aside from irritating the living daylights out of me (and I'm now up to 9/9 on the Beighton scale, which is an assessment of hypermobility. Previously, I was 8/9 because I couldn't do the thumb thing with the right wrist [guess what? now I CAN!]), renders me ineligible for occupational therapy aside from braces and splints. Now I need the pinky splinted on both hands (I have ring splints for the index, middle, and ring finger of both hands, but previously I did not really ne... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620246 Wed, 16 May 2007 02:38:00 +0100 620246 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/05/pro-choice-protest.html A 'pro-life' group bought a city permit to hold a visual protest in the city park blocks that happen to run through campus. There were large orange signs at the corners of the entry to that block with "WARNING: IMAGES OF GENOCIDE AHEAD" printed on them. First, genocide is defined as killing members of a targeted ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. TARGETED group. Nowhere I have looked with valid citations to legitimate sources has listed general zygotes, embryos, or fetuses as any part of a targeted ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. In short-they aren't people yet. Just keep reading because I know I will have really angered some of you, and my full explanation is below.Embryos and fetuses are general pre-human beings. The embryo isn't even an embryo right after being ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620248 Sat, 12 May 2007 18:29:00 +0100 620248 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/05/and-you-are-aka-thank-tech-crew-you.html On the day of the third performance of the school opera, my friend J and I were watching "Pinky and the Brain" on my laptop in the Green Room an hour before his call time and two hours before mine. J has the lead role in the opera, though since it is a cast of six, the "star" of the show is relative. J was certainly right about one thing, we attracted a few of the backstage crew, just from the title music for the cartoon. Really nice people. (One insulted my laptop (hey, dad bought it for me, I'm not complaining), and I insulted his OS. I think we got along fairly well in the brief time we interacted. Another asked about my wrist braces because he was looking to make something more "period" for his broken wrist because of upcoming SCA activities. And we all chatted about the show, various ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=592147 Sat, 05 May 2007 21:30:00 +0100 592147 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/04/last-week-and-half-or-so.html Disclaimer: if you are at all squeamish, or just don't want that great of depth about my medical issues, please don't read.Last Wednesday I was taken to the ER after passing a clot about the size of my fist. My OB/GYN wanted me to go in to check to see if I needed a blood transfusion, since I had already been bleeding for a week and a half.Despite the FACT that I absolutely could not have been pregnant (as my mother so accurately worded it, I have never "been exposed"), the ER doc flat out insisted I was lying and was really having a miscarriage. He did not have my permission to run a pregnancy test on my samples, but I am fairly certain he did anyways. Fact #2, that this exact thing had happened before, and oh look, you have the charts because I came HERE for this before, two years ago, n... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=571455 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:16:00 +0100 571455 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-maps.html A friend of mine told me yesterday that if I were to enter an address in the states as my starting point, and something in the UK (his example) as the ending point, one of the directions would be to "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean."From Boston, MA, as my starting point and London, UK as my destination, this was step #9. 3,462 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.Google Maps. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=541860 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:08:00 +0100 541860 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/04/reflection-on-school.html I apologize for not blogging more diligently--I am up to twenty credit hours for my next to final term, even though I only officially need my 400 level flute lessons, pedagogy, and my capstone for credit. I already have more credits in number than required to graduate, at the end of last term I had 185/180. Looking back on everything, I could have done a minor (how did I wind up with 16 credits of chamber ensembles when only 6 are required??).I'm rather disappointed with the required texts for pedagogy class. It makes it quite clear that it is piano oriented even though it is supposedly "general" pedagogy. Oh well, I get a free piano lesson next week, even though the material I'll be playing is very easy, even for me (with my sucking piano skills).I feel like I'm just now getting somewhere... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=531808 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:38:00 +0100 531808 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/03/when-things-arent-what-they-seem.html So... good and bad, as usual. Good being I earned straight A's this last term. But... I am not currently initiating contact with my parents, so they can find out when they bother to call me. We haven't spoken since Tuesday morning.I found out that in addition to people I went to high school with betting on when I would drop out of college, my aunts had bets going on as well. So much for family support, on all sides. I'm not saying that my parents aren't supportive, just that they have proven that they do not understand me as well as they think...It started when one of my sisters, the 19 year old, compared something going on with her to me being autistic, and started out with "you see, it's a disease...", yes, talking about Asperger's and all spectrum as a disease. I really thought she woul... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=512637 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:01:00 +0100 512637 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/03/ten-things-i-wouldnt-mind-having-cured.html In addition to my griping and reasoning about why autism doesn't need to be cured, I've come up with a list of things that would improve the quality of life for many, including myself, if more scientists and funding were allotted to finding causes and the cure of some ailments and diseases. No. Autism does not qualify as either ailment or disease (but does ignorance?). Keep in mind these are in no particular order of importance, just in the order which they occurred to me.#1 CancerTalk about poor quality of life after it starts. The treatments make living almost nonfeasible and incredibly painful.#2 DiabetesThere are different types. Type 1 appears to be autoimmune, due to circumstances after which it is detected. Type 2 can go undetected for a long time. Gestational occurs only during pre... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487879 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:55:00 +0100 487879 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/02/rant-on-multiple-subjects.html I do not appreciate being forced to utilize an external service to continue using blogger. I don't know or care who came up with the not-so-brilliant idea, as it remains that.As webmaster of rettdevil.com, when I find out who is spamming the mail accounts, and how they are getting around my fixes, there will be (perhaps figuratively speaking) bloodshed. I really have better things to do with my time than continuing to tinker with the spam settings and improvising hacks to keep the disk quota from filling up, which occasionally works for awhile... like increasing content of the site, or upgrading the forum software (which a full disk quota makes impossible). Really, I doubt both Kassiane and myself are even vaguely interested in penis enlargement. Or being spammed by bots attempting to to r... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487881 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:07:00 +0100 487881 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/02/post-recital-analysis.html I am done with my recital. It went really, really well, all things considered (like dislocating my jaw in the second piece and playing the third with it dislocated). Now that it is done, I wish I could do it over again, and not because it was terrible ... but because it was absolutely wonderful.If enough interest is shown, I'll upload and link to some mp3s of that particular performance. The honorary family gets CDs, programs, and posters, of course (you know who you are, and thank you tremendously for your support). (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487883 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 03:57:00 +0100 487883 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/01/room-to-breathe.html After going at light speed to try to keep up with "the norm", I quit. Today I realized that I could very well kill myself attempting to go at a pace I can not keep up with... after bursting into tears at the thought of the deadlines, still having to take the GRE, and having been informed by two university Disability Services that my tests for AS are not recent enough to receive accommodations, even if I currently am receiving them at another accredited institution.It may currently seem to me as though I am failing because of an inability to keep up with the plan I set forward for myself... but I hope I will survive that.Surviving retesting, intact, may be more difficult. The sense that you are being compared to a criterion that you will never fit into, and must be X amount different enough... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487885 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:28:00 +0100 487885 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/01/scheduling-nightmare_23.html The trial has been postponed until February 27th. Of which I was not notified. I have made arrangements to miss tomorrow's classes, but instead, I can go and have fun explaining to everyone why I am there.I suppose there is a good and bad side to this development. For one, I get to worry about it while I play my recital (bad). I do not have my practice schedule interrupted (good). It seems a waste, after the mental preparation I have done to change my schedule to have to change back to the original. *sigh* (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487887 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:46:00 +0100 487887 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2007/01/blog-post.html Apparently graduate school auditions have been stepped up to FEBRUARY 2ND. I am only slightly freaking out. I have no plane ticket. I have a schedule conflict. I have no idea what to do about this.Up and coming is the stalker's trial, for which I have been subpoenaed. I have to miss classes for this, and the ones that take attendance as part of the grade. One of which only allows one absence per term, which is not possible, considering that grad school auditions for this particular school I am applying to requires I miss at least one other class because the auditions are all on one of the days of the week that the class is held.I am freaking out. All these abrupt changes, even if I am merely preparing for them. This is happening too quickly... (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspe... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487889 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:33:00 +0100 487889 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/12/december-25-and-beyond.html December 25th didn't suck quite as badly as years past. Except for last year, which was grand because I managed to sleep through most of the family torture session at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Most of you probably don't know that my grandpa is 98 years old (not my great-grandpa, but my mother's father... my grandpa), while my grandma is 79.My suspicions have been confirmed about my only male cousin being on spectrum. He played with his gift, turning it over and over, feeling it at every angle. Which could be dangerous, because it was a Gerber Suspension. One of the titanium coated ones. This continued for about a half hour. Then he discovered it came with a bitset, and that received the same ritual treatment. In my family we draw names between the cousins so that one really nice gift is... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487891 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:23:00 +0100 487891 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/12/last-nights-storm.html Anyone in northwestern Oregon or Southwestern Washington shared the windstorm/rainstorm last night. Today, I took some pictures of what happened in my parents' yard, some of which could have been avoided. Fortunately, we didn't lose power long term, but it did flicker frequently.I wonder why the fence blew over. Idiot neighbors. This could have been avoided, had our fence not been a wall for them.That was unavoidable, unfortunately. As was this:I might take another picture, so you can see that aside from the chimney cover being blown awry......and the bricks being blown off the roof, and onto the deck, which is also the roof of the room below where I usually sleep (last night I slept in my youngest sister's room with her, due to her room's location at the north side of the house, and my ro... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487893 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:08:00 +0100 487893 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/12/shameless-self-promotion.html http://www.cafepress.com/dontcuremehttp://www.cafepress.com/neuralvariationBoth are mine. Yes, I designed everything in them. Enjoy, and more will follow soon. (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487895 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:43:00 +0100 487895 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/12/gahfamily.html At my parents' house... at least I was provided with more dining options this weekend. Mom finally admits aloud she has Celiac's, after a sandwich encounter.Saturday, my youngest sister had a worse reaction than usual to her rabbit (which she was not allergic to when she was given the bunny). She started breaking out in hives and told me she did not want to go into wal*mart because of the hives (she's 16 and ADD/wannabe NT). Guess who got to go in to retrieve two items. After twenty minutes of not finding them where I was told they would be, being shoved around by holiday shoppers, and general sensory chaos, I ran out of the store after the closest checker was open with her benedryl, which was not on the list. I was told that just because I had a "bad time" in there did not mean I should b... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487897 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:26:00 +0100 487897 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/12/things-abbycat-might-say.html "So clever, to put the sun in a little container so close to the ground.""Mom, why do you insist on attempting to drown yourself so often? It distresses me! Here, now I'm crying because you hate yourself enough to get wet!""Really, it wasn't me. The lamp just jumped off the shelf while I was seated next to it. Same for the books, drawing pencils, and beads.""Delicas are tasty. Great for the digestion and fun to roll in while you are trying to use them.""I'm under the bed, therefore you can't see me because all I can see is the dust and.... OOOH! catnip mouse!""Books must be shredded for they detract from the attention bestowed on MEEE.""That stick you make noise with must be punished. See? I'm lying on it so it can't scream at me.""The blue thing you talk at steals attention from me. I mus... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487899 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:31:00 +0100 487899 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/11/response-to-most-recent-murder.html I posted something similar to this rant on the Least Restrictive Enviroment board at rettdevil.com, but it seems that some like it so much, they want others to read it.In response to the most recent murder of an individual on spectrum. It along the same lines as my original post, but more thoroughly thought out.Is the one that acts on misinformation given to them by misunderstanding and fear the evil one, or is the real evil in the society that created them? This is a big picture problem, where people are killing other people because they are afraid of an unknown. None of these parents seem to be able to love the children that they brought in to this world and then took out of it because of some imperfection that is deemed unacceptable by society, and then by themselves. Review the murder ... Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487901 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:53:00 +0100 487901 http://spockette.blogspot.com/2006/11/ive-been-promoted.html Now I'm just ignored by the evil aunt. This is SO much of a relief. Being talked about in the third person while I'm in the room doesn't bother me... and it was strange. She actually brought a dish to dinner mom and I could eat with us in mind...it wasn't poisoned with gluten, either.My heater is making evil noises... (Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective) Misadventures from a Different Perspective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487903 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:02:00 +0100 487903