RIP Threads

[Fab Foodie]

I've probably brought it up more to try and clarify my misunderstanding of other peoples choices of wording. And to try to explain why I might come across as difficult sometimes. And I mention it here to try to understand myself really as I came to a diagnosis quite late in life. That's why I mention that a formal diagnosis might be useful for some, although I'm aware that others would prefer not to have one. It's certainly helped me to embrace it as part of my identity.

Hear hear!
Trying to adjust to my new-found ADHD status, much of which is very retrospective at the moment - seeing events from the past through a clearer lens.
I am working on telling my work team simply because it will help them understand why I simply can't do certain tasks (it appears to them that am being lazy). HR are on the case too - again, the hope is that the constant pressure to perform all the tasks 'required of my job description' will be relaxed.
My team and company have been accommodating to my 'foibles' because I deliver extremely well in other areas. Now my 'foibles' have a meaningful description that can be better understood. Am sure this will make life easier all-round.

I have been fortunate to have very accommodating managers throughout my career - have been described politely and affectionally as 'Special' and 'My management challenge' in the past....

 

[C R]

Should be pining for the cjords....

When do we get the groan emoji?

 

[winjim]

Trying to adjust to my new-found ADHD status, much of which is very retrospective at the moment - seeing events from the past through a clearer lens.

 

[winjim]

When do we get the groan emoji?

I want an autistic flat affect emoji. To be used to devastatingly ironic effect, except nobody can ever bloody tell.

😐

 

[Jody]

And I mention it here to try to understand myself really as I came to a diagnosis quite late in life.........It's certainly helped me to embrace it as part of my identity.

Hear hear!
Trying to adjust to my new-found ADHD status, much of which is very retrospective at the moment - seeing events from the past through a clearer lens.

Sometimes you have no idea how much innocuous online posts can also help others.

 

[classic33]

When do we get the groan emoji?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Sometimes you have no idea how much innocuous online posts can also help others.

Sharing has it's uses. Feel free to PM me if you want to compare notes....

 

[Fab Foodie]

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Amen to that.

 

[winjim]

Sometimes you have no idea how much innocuous online posts can also help others.

Just making it less of a taboo can help I think. I've been helped by posters on other social media recounting their experiences and essentially holding up a mirror so I can look at myself.

I've had so much of my life affected by it that I'm going to own it, I'm going to mention it, I'm going to interpret everything in the context of it since I can't be separated from it.

I realise that it might become a bit tedious for people who quite rightly have no interest in my brain or how it works but you know, we have scroll arrows.

 

[oldwheels]

The Irish have what is considered an odd way of dealing with death. Wakes, where the body of the deceased is "on show" in the house, are still commonplace. Never been to one over here.

I've a feeling that sitting in a room, with an open coffin, would make most folk uncomfortable.

There's nothing wrong with showing some respect to the deceased.

When my wife died her body was in an open coffin overnight in the local church for any mourners to see but closed next morning before the funeral.

 

[MontyVeda]

I thought it was probably that. On the test I score high end for Asperger's which wouldn't surprise my wife; her training and experience was focused on people with Autism, and she's often said I show a lot of symptoms.

Maybe worth investigation.

However, we're getting off the topic of Jazz; oh, wait...

Two of my friends... in separate decades ended up learning a lot about autism; one through her work and the other because their teenage daughter had been officially diagnosed as autistic. Both began seeing autistic traits in all and sundry which leads me to believe that we're all on the spectrum.

 

[BoldonLad]

The Irish have what is considered an odd way of dealing with death. Wakes, where the body of the deceased is "on show" in the house, are still commonplace. Never been to one over here.

I've a feeling that sitting in a room, with an open coffin, would make most folk uncomfortable.

There's nothing wrong with showing some respect to the deceased.

Mrs @Boldonlad’s family are of Catholic Irish descent (all be it 2 or 3 generations ago). When their mother died (about 15 years ago), they did exactly as you describe.

I found it strange, but, each to their own.

I suspect this sort of thing was more common place, in the past, among the “poor”, before the introduction of “chapels of rest” etc.

 

[winjim]

Two of my friends... in separate decades ended up learning a lot about autism; one through her work and the other because their teenage daughter had been officially diagnosed as autistic. Both began seeing autistic traits in all and sundry which leads me to believe that we're all on the spectrum.

Controversial...

 

[Jody]

Both began seeing autistic traits in all and sundry which leads me to believe that we're all on the spectrum.

The Autism spectrum isn't what a lot of people belive it is. It isn't linear for how much a person is affected but more an artists pallet of colours showing how that persons Autism affects them.

We're not all somewhere on the spectrum.

 

[iandg]

Can all you jazz freaks aficionados bugger off to a different thread, show some respect.*



*For the avoidance of doubt, I am not being serious, now bugger off the lot of you.

I like the way threads sometimes "swing" as this one has. From death to jazz and back to death, to autism and back again to death.

It's how a conversation progresses when you sit a round a table with friends at your local