09-23-2017, 11:37 AM
(09-23-2017, 01:02 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(09-22-2017, 07:31 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I am an oddity at the clinic in which I got therapy (most adults treated there there area alcoholics and addicts) in which the therapist actually suggested that I have a drink on occasion. One drink (a beer or a glass of wine) -- enough to dissolve anxiety, but not enough to dissolve my conscience or affect my shaky balance.
So what you're saying is you got your diagnosis from some addiction councilor and not from someone who specializes with autism spectrum disorder. You know, that is actually worse than reading symptoms on WebMD and assuming you have a condition.
So what you're saying is you got your diagnosis from some addiction councilor and not from someone who specializes with autism spectrum disorder. You know, that is actually worse than reading symptoms on WebMD and assuming you have a condition.
That counselor has plenty of children to counsel, as I have seen from the stuff in his office, many for The Spectrum. Most of his adult clients are apparently druggies, boozers, and people with "anger-control issues". I'm the opposite of the druggies and boozers, as I have little empathy for them.
Quote:Quote:It's a matter of perception, and I can think of two attributes of you to which you admit.
Perception matters, you've chosen to perceive yourself as a victim and thus you become one. You're not prey, you're a predator, but instead of using strength or intellect or even cunning to achieve your ends you use pathetic-ness. You are a vampire and your blood is the altruism of others. Indeed I'd say that if you were a Rick and Morty character you'd be Jerry. I recommend watching season 3 episode 5.
http://www.toonova.net/rick-and-morty-se...-episode-5
I'd rather not be a victim. My parents mishandled me because I didn't create any problems. The K-12 educational system saw me as a model student, and again I didn't create any problems. I was the sort to run away from fights, and I played by the rules. Be a conformist, but don't be perfect at it? I was a satisfying compromise.
But had I known I would have done many things differently.
Quote:Quote:Frankly, I would rather have been told that nothing is wrong with me, and that I might as well take a job as a convenience-store clerk.
That is a bald faced lie. I've told you many times there is nothing wrong with you apart from a few minor character flaws. Last I checked Dunning-Kruger effect, laziness, and an inability to accept personal responsibility were not listed as pathologies.
It's not a character flaw.
Quote:Quote:Tell me about it. I know of a teenager who got pregnant with two darling little cash cows at age 14... her sister, who has much more going for her would have taken custody if given the chance, but you can be sure that the idiot screen is turned on all the time, and never to PBS.
Not exactly my point there. The way welfare is structured is toxic. If the idea was to help people get on their feet then the goal should be to slowly get them off dependence from the state entirely by gradually withdrawing the aid. As it stands now if you get welfare and take a job and make more than X you're cut off entirely. Most people on the welfare are neither particularly bright nor have particularly good prospects so the economic incentive is to stay on the welfare and live at the expense of others, like a parasite.
No social program is perfect. But leave everything to the operation of the 'free market' (meaning that the masters of the market are free to use it as they wish) and life will be miserable for most people. As in the 1920s.
Quote:I think the main reason this is the case is that the welfare state was not created with helping citizens get out of poverty in mind (that is just how it was sold) but rather to create reliable voting blocs for the party that always seems to want to expand welfare.
Do we value life enough to keep people from selling themselves into serfdom contracts, or do we not?
Everyone can go through a time of needing aid. I'd like to see welfare recipients having to make efforts to improve their lives.
Quote:Quote:I have never been one to waste money. I envy only two things about the rich -- foreign travel
Foreign travel is vastly overrated. Having been to Europe and to Asia a little I have to say that I prefer staying in America. Getting on that slave ship was the best thing that happened to my ancestors. Shit man, I may be poor for Americans but I'm pretty goddamn rich compared to some African. American blacks even those on welfare are the richest blacks on the planet.
In the military?
I know what I would seek and what I would ignore. In Amsterdam one can see the Rijksmuseum with lots of Old Master paintings and one can also see whores advertising their wares, so to speak.
Most military bases are awful places.
Quote:Quote:and economic security, something that the economic elites must deny to all but themselves.
The "fabulously wealthy" don't actually have economic security. Asset bubbles and stock market crashes happen and once there was a saying of families going from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations. If you actually knew half as much about economics that you think you know then you'd know that no one has economic security.
How many rappers and sports people have come from nothing, made it rich and died broke? Quite a lot.
Stupidity + wealth or wealth + unconstrained appetites usually mean that one ends up without the wealth.
Quote:Quote: Jewelry, expensive cars, bloated housing, gambling jaunts -- not for me. Just let me see a little live theater on occasion... and of course listen to great classical music. Like Shostakovich string quartets and Mozart operas. It's not snobbery -- this is simply good.
I'm not much one for jewelry either, unless you count my pocket watch (I hate wrist watches, and I have a tendency to stop them if they are quartz-and I think it is a matter of electromagnetism and possibly blood pressure before Eric comes in with some woo-woo). Define an expensive car. My car wasn't cheep to trick out even if I bought it originally for a low price. I would have no interest going to a Farari dealership and buying one stock though. The goal is to pimp out the car, not what the car is.
If I had unlimited funds and needed to buy a car, it would probably be a Honda Accord -- comfortable, low maintenance, stingy with gas, safe for its size, and quite possibly at my age the last car that I would ever need if I live as long as my parents did. Never having had a sports car, I wouldn't know what to do with one. Vehicle speed isn't my way.
Quote:You can keep the Opera, I never much liked it. The classical music can be had on CD, and as or live theater, most towns have a community theater. No it isn't Broadway but then again Broadway is vastly over rated, I know because I've been there too.
Your taste. There is a community theater, and while it is not as refined as what one would expect on Broadway, it is satisfying as long as one accepts its limitations. For over-refined perfection there are movies.
Quote:Quote:The cover of the office chair at which I input stuff on the computer and read responses or watch videos has started to wear. So what did I do? Buy a new chair? No. I went to a thrift shop and bought a $4 blanket to cover it. That saves $70.
I have one better. My chair at work originally was going to go to the dumpster. The boyfriend liberated it when the school upgraded their office furnishings. You'd be surprised some of the things people have thrown away, my home office desk was also someone else's trash. Word of advice though if you plan on dumpster diving, go to the higher end white neighborhoods. They have better trash.
To be a really-good bargain-hunter takes some imagination.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.