I foresee another tribute to Clarke’s Law coming…. Sufficiently extensive experience is indistinguishable from cynicism. No, Andy Rooney didn’t make that up; I did. He was the most curmudgeonly name that came to mind when I needed to name this post. Comic for June 25, 2012 via Dilbert Daily Strip on 6/24/12
Smiles popped into my head today. This paragraph (refs omitted): Autism and Asperger syndrome are diagnosable developmental disorders, but autistic-like personality traits are continuously distributed in the non-clinical population. They are higher in males, in scientists (especially in the hard sciences and engineering) and in relatives of autistic-spectrum patients. Thus, individual differences in autistic-like traits…
Thinking about my day today…. Felt zero feelings for someone — where do those things go? I guess there’s no conservation of emotion (it hasn’t even all turned to hate, disgust, or sadness); Valentine’s Corollary to Newton’s 2nd Law: love fades? But enough of that. I’m not a fraidy-cat jackass, afraid to buy a car…
It’s like I had an imaginary friend for the last 16 years and just found out she wasn’t real. All my memories are tainted, suspect. Who knows what was real and what wasn’t? And I could drive myself nuts trying to figure it out, unearthing bits of evidence — photographs, tickets stubs, and snippets of…