Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • Overcoming Aspieness

    The hardest parts of overcoming aspieness were: 0 – Migraines from overstimulation by sound, light, people – anything other than ‘nice organized information’. 1 – Looking at people in the eyes. Because it felt like being electrocuted. 2 – Overcoming social anxiety – not from being around people but from interacting with them. 3 – Slowing down speech to ‘moral rates’. (I love listening to programmers who are on the spectrum. so natural. lol) 4 – Slowing down and Learning to listen to people and watching them patiently. 5 – Overcoming the sensation that people were evil rather than simply …. ‘something less’ … and doing the best they can. 6 – Learning how to help people feel, think, and get what they want on their own terms – by listening and suggesting. Think of your persona as stepping back from experience. Or as people say ‘austists have no filter’. So you can develop this ability with practice if you’re on the beneficial end of the spectrum. ( Honestly, aside from agitating my rather high dominance, my only real incentive to interact was to get girls. lol. For guys, all you really have to do is ‘go along with leaders’. I love following when I have no responsibility other than to the team. )

  • OVERCOMING ASPIENESS The hardest parts of overcoming aspieness were: 0 – Migrain

    OVERCOMING ASPIENESS

    The hardest parts of overcoming aspieness were:

    0 – Migraines from overstimulation by sound, light, people – anything other than ‘nice organized information’.

    1 – Looking at people in the eyes. Because it felt like being electrocuted.

    2 – Overcoming social anxiety – not from being around people but from interacting with them.

    3 – Slowing down speech to ‘moral rates’. (I love listening to programmers who are on the spectrum. so natural. lol)

    4 – Slowing down and Learning to listen to people and watching them patiently.

    5 – Overcoming the sensation that people were evil rather than simply …. ‘something less’ … and doing the best they can.

    6 – Learning how to help people feel, think, and get what they want on their own terms – by listening and suggesting.

    Think of your persona as stepping back from experience. Or as people say ‘austists have no filter’. So you can develop this ability with practice if you’re on the beneficial end of the spectrum.

    ( Honestly, aside from agitating my rather high dominance, my only real incentive to interact was to get girls. lol. For guys, all you really have to do is ‘go along with leaders’. I love following when I have no responsibility other than to the team. )

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-07 12:56:00 UTC

  • (diary) Seeing the doctor tomorrow, and hoping that this improvement continues.

    (diary) Seeing the doctor tomorrow, and hoping that this improvement continues. I’ve had to stop taking melatonin in order to sleep – it was making me sleepy for half of the day. I’ve had to stop taking allergy meds because they were making me sleepy. I’ve had to cut my blood pressure medicine because it was making me faint. The bloating in my stomach and the swelling in my lungs, throat and face have nearly gone, and I’m not snoring any longer. And I can breathe fully to the bottom of my lungs without a coughing fit. I still have the asthma but it’s nowhere near as severe. So the inflammation is really in retreat, and I can sleep, and I’m not in nearly constant agitation and pain. So hopefully the effect isn’t temporary, because I’m almost back on my game now.

  • (diary) Seeing the doctor tomorrow, and hoping that this improvement continues.

    (diary) Seeing the doctor tomorrow, and hoping that this improvement continues. I’ve had to stop taking melatonin in order to sleep – it was making me sleepy for half of the day. I’ve had to stop taking allergy meds because they were making me sleepy. I’ve had to cut my blood pressure medicine because it was making me faint. The bloating in my stomach and the swelling in my lungs, throat and face have nearly gone, and I’m not snoring any longer. And I can breathe fully to the bottom of my lungs without a coughing fit. I still have the asthma but it’s nowhere near as severe. So the inflammation is really in retreat, and I can sleep, and I’m not in nearly constant agitation and pain. So hopefully the effect isn’t temporary, because I’m almost back on my game now.

  • (diary) Seeing the doctor tomorrow, and hoping that this improvement continues.

    (diary)

    Seeing the doctor tomorrow, and hoping that this improvement continues. I’ve had to stop taking melatonin in order to sleep – it was making me sleepy for half of the day. I’ve had to stop taking allergy meds because they were making me sleepy. I’ve had to cut my blood pressure medicine because it was making me faint. The bloating in my stomach and the swelling in my lungs, throat and face have nearly gone, and I’m not snoring any longer. And I can breathe fully to the bottom of my lungs without a coughing fit. I still have the asthma but it’s nowhere near as severe. So the inflammation is really in retreat, and I can sleep, and I’m not in nearly constant agitation and pain. So hopefully the effect isn’t temporary, because I’m almost back on my game now.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-07 12:21:00 UTC

  • (health update) Cross fingers. Might have found the source of the problem (infec

    (health update) Cross fingers. Might have found the source of the problem (infection) causing all the inflamation. My asthma is almost gone. I feel better than I have since my twenties. And I’m only a few days into the medication. I’m off to the clinic to see what they say. If i can get my strength back I’ll be ‘dangerous’. (Praying)

  • (health update) Cross fingers. Might have found the source of the problem (infec

    (health update) Cross fingers. Might have found the source of the problem (infection) causing all the inflamation. My asthma is almost gone. I feel better than I have since my twenties. And I’m only a few days into the medication. I’m off to the clinic to see what they say. If i can get my strength back I’ll be ‘dangerous’. (Praying)

  • (health update) Cross fingers. Might have found the source of the problem (infec

    (health update)

    Cross fingers. Might have found the source of the problem (infection) causing all the inflamation. My asthma is almost gone. I feel better than I have since my twenties. And I’m only a few days into the medication. I’m off to the clinic to see what they say. If i can get my strength back I’ll be ‘dangerous’. (Praying)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-05 13:13:00 UTC

  • I’ve lost my interest in exotics – they draw all the wrong kind of attention, an

    I’ve lost my interest in exotics – they draw all the wrong kind of attention, and they say the wrong thing. I’ll stick with the Boxster-S/Cayman, which gives you all the fun and experience you can possibly need. That said, the Jaguar F, Aston Martin Vanquish, and now that Ferrari has finally given up on (that piece of sh-eye’-t) california and introduced the Portofino, you can sort of pick the quadrant you want between the Cayman, f-type, Aston and Ferrari. That’s a long (very Propertarian series) way of saying that it’s nice that ferrari finally made a good choice, even if it took them longer than everyone else. No one gives a s–t about supercars-cum-racecars now. They are undrivable, and smell of nouveau riche underclasses. Our market instincts are running to cocoon sedans for the highway and bugout SUV’s. 😉 Keeping the unwashed masses from touching us.

  • I’ve lost my interest in exotics – they draw all the wrong kind of attention, an

    I’ve lost my interest in exotics – they draw all the wrong kind of attention, and they say the wrong thing. I’ll stick with the Boxster-S/Cayman, which gives you all the fun and experience you can possibly need. That said, the Jaguar F, Aston Martin Vanquish, and now that Ferrari has finally given up on (that piece of sh-eye’-t) california and introduced the Portofino, you can sort of pick the quadrant you want between the Cayman, f-type, Aston and Ferrari. That’s a long (very Propertarian series) way of saying that it’s nice that ferrari finally made a good choice, even if it took them longer than everyone else. No one gives a s–t about supercars-cum-racecars now. They are undrivable, and smell of nouveau riche underclasses. Our market instincts are running to cocoon sedans for the highway and bugout SUV’s. 😉 Keeping the unwashed masses from touching us.