So what's wrong with arrested development?

[Kid Presentable]

As in, things that you never quite grew out of. I still talk about video games like a trooper, waffle transformers and so forth. I figure life is short, you gots to be happy. If many of the things I enjoy are 'childish', then so be it.

There are some very together folk out there, but surely part of them is still in a state of adolescence. Be it furious masturbating, crafts and such, or rap music.

What stuff did you never grow out of? Have people ever made you feel odd for it?

[Lex Diamonds]

Breastfeeding.

[Kid Presentable]

Breastfeeding.
I doubt what you and Junker do could be called breastfeeding.

[Lex Diamonds]

What Junker does is called knobgobbling, however I'm referring to the fact that I still drink the milk of my mother's mammary glands. (y)

[Kid Presentable]

You haven't grown out of penises.

I meet a lot of very 'mature' people who are younger than me (Pad not being one of them), and although they have fun, they always seem so serious about it.

[Lex Diamonds]

You haven't grown out of penises.

I meet a lot of very 'mature' people who are younger than me (Pad not being one of them), and although they have fun, they always seem so serious about it.
Everybody comes from a penis originally. Just remember that.

I'm only staying true to my "root"s (lmao) and keeping it real.

[abcdefz]

I still have a huge problem with "It's not fair!" that I should have grown out of by the time I hit eleven or so.

[Kid Presentable]

Actually, I'm similar in that I always expect things to work out my way.

[abcdefz]

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[camo]

As in, things that you never quite grew out of. I still talk about video games like a trooper, waffle transformers and so forth. I figure life is short, you gots to be happy. If many of the things I enjoy are 'childish', then so be it.

There are some very together folk out there, but surely part of them is still in a state of adolescence. Be it furious masturbating, crafts and such, or rap music.

What stuff did you never grow out of? Have people ever made you feel odd for it?


yeah videogames, my ex hated it. The fuckin narky cow.

[Nivvie]

When you think of people with Asperger's syndrome, who are often thought to have minds that can achieve amazing things that a person with Aspersgers could not (such as Einstein, Darwin, as well as a huge list of muscians such as Thom Yorke, Bob Dylan, Neil Young etc).

These people are usually the last to lose childish tendancies (or often never do, I believe Neil Young has a miniatue railway in his garden, even if it's for a child, I bet he own an engineers hat and whistle) as well as adapt to independent living.
Having dinner parties is not everything.

[abcdefz]

When you think of people with Asperger's syndrome, who are often thought to have minds that can achieve amazing things that a person with Aspersgers could not


I'm not quite sure what you mean. People with Asperger's who can achieve things people with Asperger's cannot?

[Nivvie]

I'm not quite sure what you mean. People with Asperger's who can achieve things people with Asperger's cannot?


Indeed.
It has been stated by some people (unsurprisingly Dr Asperger himself is one of them) that as their minds are capable of working at one problem without distraction for a greater length of time than 'normals', and also as often their thinking processes are very different, they can do amazing things others can't.
Isaac Newton had Asperger's, and as smart as he was, it was actually a child in the 1940's also with Asperger's who solved one of his errors.
As it is recognised as a form of autism, there is kind of a mix of the abilty to work out the square route of a stupidly long number in no time at all, mixed with the high funtioning abilities of a 'normal', to communicate with and learn from others.

And also to make a lot of money, Bill Gates style.

[abcdefz]

Indeed.



It still doesn't make sense. Look at what you wrote.

X can do things X cannot.

I think what you're saying is "People with Asperger's can do things that people without Asperger's cannot." I think.

But then, I don't have Asperger's.

[Nivvie]

Oh riiiiight, see what you mean. Yes, to be brilliant it helps to have Aspergers, and so therefore it's OK to play with toys until middle age or so.

[abcdefz]

Hmmm. So maybe my bike riding and finger painting count for something!

[beastieangel01]

video games
the beastie boys
star wars
cartoon watching in general (I watch the good ones, man!)

[M.C. Guevera]

Professional wrestling.

Seriously, I should have stopped watching it when I was 10, or at least when everyone else stopped watching it in 2001. But I just keep on keeping on, I'm hooked for life.

Also Star Wars, video games, cartoons.

[Pres Zount]

Not just video games, but "childish" video games. Colourful ones. Sonic and mario et al.

Transformers. Playing games. dressing up. Being silly.

[Caribou]

Well, I still suck my thumb and go to sleep with a cuddly toy but apart from that not much really.
Or actually it's a lot.
I still listen to the same music as when I was 12 and can get completely obsessed by a band/artist, listen to their music/watch their films constantly and drool over their pictures and want to have their babies, and then after a while I just move on to the next thing and obsess over that.
Right now I'm in a very Norwegian phase and am trying to learn the lingo, and am failing terribly. Not so 'jævlig bra'. (n)