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how do you pronounce your name

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@Raxacoricofallapatorius Yee~ out of curiosity, have you seen Classic, and do you have a favorite Doctor? ^.^

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@Shoryu Magami I'd have trouble remembering how to spell them *amused*

how do you pronounce your name

@Raxacoricofallapatorius I'm sure the Doctor knows. =P Found you by your name in the status bar, then this was the first post on your profile *dirty stalker* You seem to have a rather excellent sense of humor, though. ^.^

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@BrokenPromise It gets really fun when you start using analogies that have no place in whatever setting. I can't think of any examples offhand, but I know they happen.

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@pugbutter @NuttsnBolts I am of "the best words (often in the best order)" school of thought. I love fancy, flowery words and a poetic flair in their use. At the same time, I will also choose my words with an eye for overall tone, especially when employing a given character's point of view. My child characters are prone to thinking that mommy said this, and daddy always would do that, and more likely to have run-on sentences in their narration. Concepts are simplified, as is word choice. Wyth the moorcat, while probably not entirely a simple animal, will call any metal blade a knife, if not simply a sharp metal stick. He doesn't generally think in names: the girl he looks after is simply "his girl", and then other people are identified by characteristics and in their relationships to cat and child. The man his girl trusts, the funny-smelling lady, the bad men trying to hurt his girl, the bad children that made her cry. My adrenaline-junkie trickster gets excited, intense narrative, a minor noble in the Victorian/Edwardian Era will feel a bit more formal. When speaking for myself, I am all over the place, and I have a habit of absorbing mannerisms from those around me, so I'm constantly shifting, depending on who I'm interacting with and what I've been reading.

So in the end, words are very important, but "best" doesn't always mean "most precise or concise" but instead "the words that best create the effect I need". For the specific example of reducing a body to ashes vs. incinerating, I actually get a different impression. The incinerate is far hotter, and probably swifter. But reducing to ashes feels more threatening, even though incineration is more powerful. Bringing in the idea of unsophisticated perspectives, a child might just say "burned". Or even "set on fire".

@Gowi We've discussed this before, but I never feel the horse is completely dead. However I will respectfully disagree with your friend. While yes, in many cases multiple paragraphs are needed to cover everything, there are times when far less is significantly more. For example, particularly in 1x1 rp (and it's my instinct in groups, though I don't usually /get/ to, because of the way posting works and when people are around), if there feels like there should be a break for someone to answer a question, or respond to a statement, or react to an action -- particularly if the other character's response will change the path of the narrative -- I like to take a break and flip it off to the other player. Likewise I will tend to ask "okay, so this and this happens, would your character do A, B, or something else entirely" so that I am able to write beyond that point and stay true to the course of events. It's even /more/ fun in a conversation, because you don't have one person say ten things and then the second person reply to each of the ten things in turn. You say one or two, and then the other person responds and says one or two themselves, and so on. A shortcoming of forum rp is that all too often conversations end up feeling like a bunch parallel conversations happening at the same time between the same characters, because the first point is still being discussed, and the fourth, and seven through ten. There's almost always something more to say about anything, and it messes with narrative flow to have the early points keep going when later ones have already been brought up. It's doable, and I don't mind it too much, but I always notice it happening and it's far /far/ more often on forums than in verbal discourse.

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@Shoryu Magami I do know that feeling. There've been a couple meds in my long history of various things that made me either not /down/ but not up either (I'm usually /very/ up), or that I had very little creativity while taking. I talked to my doc right away and got off those quick. I'm miserable when I can't write or draw or create. *nodding* It's a horrendous feeling. Don't think I ever did anything like all the dinosaurs, but I did tend to have a high retention rate for random facts. Aside from subatomic particles, I don't think I ever had a narrow focus like that. Although I did impress a scientist at a Fermilab open house with my knowledge of neutrinos and quarks, which there'd just been a few breakthroughs with. He said I should come back when I'd graduated college. ^.^;;

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@Shoryu Magami @BrokenPromise

Ah, you're...wait, your profile says...I don't know how I turned 3 into 5, but whatever. You're actually a couple years older than I initially thought. ^.^;;

Yeah, ADHD was actually my first diagnosis. Though I'm not sure why anti-hyper drugs would help someone if they're not...y'know, hyper. Not learning is different from not paying attention, but I guess I'm expecting loonies to make sense, so... ^.^;;

Puberty was /awful/ for me, and while I did have a lot of the stuff hit a bit later, between my hormones and the various meds (not ritalin at that point, but I was on some group of things), I was just a chemical melting pot, and actually nearly destroyed my life and the lives of my family. NOt in the suicidal sense, either.

People never commented much on my parents, but I got the "you're brilliant" stuff and "thirteen going on thirty", etc a /lot/. Straight A+s, 99th percentile on all standardized tests, all the advanced classes, and so on. In fact, I met my first really close friend, who I am still close to after almost twenty years and living two states over and not talking all that much when we're not actually together, I met her at the award ceremony for some four-hour standardized test in second grade, and I don't think it was one the school required. It might have been for some gifted program, since I think TAG class started in second or third grade, but I can't be sure. I was first for our age group, she was third (second was a guy so he didn't count). One of the biggest regrets I have, when I actually think about it, is that I was always told I could do anything, and that I had the brains to be amazing, and now...I'm not even average. I'm still bright, but the vague dreams I had of changing the world, making some amazing discovery or revolutionizing some field, those are almost certainly never going to happen. And maybe they wouldn't have anyhow, but I feel that I never got a chance to try. I mean, I didn't know what field I was going to go into, but I knew I wanted to go to college and earn a doctorate, yet I've never even taken a college course save for AP highschool stuff. It sounds like you didn't get a chance to try either, and that really, /really/ sucks. *hug*

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@Shoryu Magami @Doc Doctor Jeez, you guys too? I was put on ritalin in first grade, although I personally think it helped me a good bit. I've no idea what your specific issues are with the drug, and honestly I might just not know about them. And I /still/ didn't think like the others in many ways. I'm 28, so Shoryu, you're only a couple years my senior. No idea about the good Doctor. ^.^; To this day, I am still on medication. And I will point out that if my brain does not make the same chemicals that allow a person to function at their best, then artificially supplementing the missing chemicals is just as valid as taking a vitamin for iron or something. Or insulin. Yes, mental health is still a very young field, and a lot of it is uncertain and heavily influenced by the fact that our perceptions are subjective and vastly different, and thus flawed.

I was pretty lucky. My schools did care, at least to some extent, and while perhaps I was not challenged as I should have been, I was not completely stuck in a corner either. Back then we didn't know I had high-functioning autism; I don't know if autism was even recognized yet. I was simply hyper and wild, and disobedient, and often inattentive (even though that never affected my grades). I was smart enough to work my way of thinking to the same point as everyone else, and either meld the two views, or figure out how to convert one to the other. Like...borrowing for subtraction drove me nuts the way they wanted me to do it. I flip the numbers about slightly differently, and it works far better for me. Or with algebra and geometry, I would work out the proofs in my room on my own because while the book did usually explain it, I needed to grasp the reasoning behind a theorem to truly remember and utilize it. That got a lot harder with calculus. ^.^;;

My real difficulty, unfortunately, is that I am not socially adept at all, and my lines of reasoning are often very different. When it comes to opinion matters and drawing a line for things like what's okay to say and what's not, I do extremely poorly. Furthermore, since I was never really pushed as a child, I never developed real study habits, or self control, or discipline, or any of the tools that one needs to succeed in the world. I am legally disabled, and I will probably never be completely independent. I think I do pretty well, all things considered, and I'm pretty happy. There's lots of things I won't get to do, but that's always the case, I think, and maybe it's a matter of just not focusing on those things. No, I don't have a job that challenges me, that thrill of solving a difficult problem and getting paid to do so. I haven't taken any college classes because they're expensive and I worry a great deal that I won't be able to keep up with the work, that I'll fall apart and have wasted the money for no gain. There's a few issues that have left lasting trauma, and my possibilities are limited, but I /do/ enjoy what I have.

tl;dr I've always been pretty messed up and sure I wish things had gone differently, but I tend to be happy. Besides, the entire /world/ is messed up. -.-

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@Doc Doctor The whole makework deal is so /so/ true. Yeah, you should have a basic grasp of fields like math and logic, and geography, and history, and so on. But c'mon, you don't need to be a rocket scientist for most jobs. That and you really need to make sure /every/ student is challenged, and made to think. You can't give them all the same work and expect them to meet the same level of success. Some people will have trouble and need help, and yes, there are tutors and stuff for this, or talking ot the teacher or whatever. But there's /also/ a group of people who find it simplistic and want a real challenge, and they are often overlooked.

It's even more fun when you're highly intelligent and on the spectrum of mental disability /too/. To the point where hoping to find a curriculum to suit your needs is nearly an exercise in futility. x.x

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@TheMinorFall I did, silly. =P Commentary rarely precludes posting, unless it's particularly relevant and I want/need answers first.