That could ignite Quiet Voice's fuse but, yes, you all know my views on the multicultural agenda. There are schools in my area where you can play "Spot The Anglo Saxon" in leaving hours. They are about 20 per cent at most. Scores of female students with heads covered in black sacks or hoods. It's exactly what happened to the Romans by 300 AD. France is a classic example. I once met a Ukrainian who told me how shocked he was how France has become virtually a different country. Hungarians and Poles are horrified by France's population changes. It used to be a Latin country of liberty, cheeses and wine.Candid wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:53 pm I don't think you want anything from the BBC, which has become a propaganda machine for the World Economic Forum and other dodgy groups.
Did you know there's an influx of illegal non-English speakers into the UK, and that Our Starmer is housing them in luxury hotels and giving them money that he's taking from English pensioners?
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It's not too bad where I live, but London... Whew!
There's plenty of talk that English people aren't making as many babies as they used to... probably because they can't afford to have one stay-at-home parent or pay through the nose for daycare.
There's plenty of talk that English people aren't making as many babies as they used to... probably because they can't afford to have one stay-at-home parent or pay through the nose for daycare.
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H told me he was schizophrenic when I first met him. To me that didn't fit him at all. He rates quite low on the empathy scale, though, and has embarrassed me more than once by blurting things out in company.Fulgurator wrote: ↑Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:05 pm
It may help you to note that Asperger's is identical to the negative or minus symptoms of Schizophrenia.
No kidding! It makes me crazy that H can fail to hear me through several repetitions, to the point where I think he's winding me up. I end up having to shout, and that comes across as anger. I mean it makes me feel angry. I know I've become much less gregarius and more stand-offish in the 20+ years we've been together.Deafness generally would be a minus symptom too because normal people can hear.
No indeed. I know a female aspie who's quiet and thoughtful where H is loud. Before I had my cataracts removed I might go to the loo in a large crowded restaurant and all I had to do was listen for a brief time to know exactly which direction to get back to our table. He's also embarrassed me more than once by blurting out things I've told him, although he's got better on that score over the years.above all, Asperger's is not a personality type.
I'm curious about you saying you experience loss of connection to the outside world. Does this mean you shun the company of others?
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He's also embarrassed me more than once by blurting out things I've told him, although he's got better on that score over the years."
That has been a big problem with me - a kind of gossip tendency. I was forced to make efforts to stop doing it. I now think this is a lack of empathy issue where you don't perceive some things are connected to peoples feelings. There's a funny story where a friend on campus years ago shared a simple, silly joke. "If I had lived in ancient Rome I'd have fancied being one of those rich Roman mistresses with lots of male slaves!", she said. It was just a bit of silly small talk but next thing she knew her remark was all over the campus. Worse still, it reached the ears of a guy she fancied, who was gutted and horrified. " I never knew she was like that!, he commented, as I recall. So, as you can imagine, I got a major dressing down by the girl concerned. She really let me have it. She scolded me for spreading rumours and making her out to be some sort of closet kink queen. Truth is, I'd not thought my comments were fired off without any sense of social sensitivity. The situation carried on till finally I realised I couldn't just repeat whatever I wanted. So now I do try to either keep quiet or just avoid the whole risk of creating upset.
That has been a big problem with me - a kind of gossip tendency. I was forced to make efforts to stop doing it. I now think this is a lack of empathy issue where you don't perceive some things are connected to peoples feelings. There's a funny story where a friend on campus years ago shared a simple, silly joke. "If I had lived in ancient Rome I'd have fancied being one of those rich Roman mistresses with lots of male slaves!", she said. It was just a bit of silly small talk but next thing she knew her remark was all over the campus. Worse still, it reached the ears of a guy she fancied, who was gutted and horrified. " I never knew she was like that!, he commented, as I recall. So, as you can imagine, I got a major dressing down by the girl concerned. She really let me have it. She scolded me for spreading rumours and making her out to be some sort of closet kink queen. Truth is, I'd not thought my comments were fired off without any sense of social sensitivity. The situation carried on till finally I realised I couldn't just repeat whatever I wanted. So now I do try to either keep quiet or just avoid the whole risk of creating upset.
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"I'm curious about you saying you experience loss of connection to the outside world. Does this mean you shun the company of others?"
Grigory Perelman does. Won't open the door or talk hardly to anyone. My autism is different. I do talk to people for short periods but come across initially as very strange. It took some people a while to get used to me. The autism creeps in by the fact my cat is the closest friend I have and so no person could replace him. At home it's just me and him and each doing our own thing in a calm surrounding. Whoever I might talk to, the cat will appear to greet them too. Not when I'm not present.
Even with family there's no connection. It's like not being human which is called "depersonalisation". Some children with Schizophrenia view themselves as a wolf, or a cat because the sense of personality fails to consolidate.
Grigory Perelman does. Won't open the door or talk hardly to anyone. My autism is different. I do talk to people for short periods but come across initially as very strange. It took some people a while to get used to me. The autism creeps in by the fact my cat is the closest friend I have and so no person could replace him. At home it's just me and him and each doing our own thing in a calm surrounding. Whoever I might talk to, the cat will appear to greet them too. Not when I'm not present.
Even with family there's no connection. It's like not being human which is called "depersonalisation". Some children with Schizophrenia view themselves as a wolf, or a cat because the sense of personality fails to consolidate.