2tups

Exactly my position Inglorious. I am high functioning and diagnosed recently although I've managed to live a reasonably 'normal' life up to now having a partner and kid who aren't on the spectrum. I find I have a tendency to think that whatever I think or say then i'm right and everyone else is wrong but i'm learning to accept that others have other opinions that are equally as valid. I also have a strong desire to see people who commit the most innocuous of 'crimes' such as parking in a disabled bay when they aren't disabled told about it and punished. It's just something that drives me. If it's wrong then it's wrong and often with the unfathomable behaviour of many other people, day to day life is tricky as i'm always getting annoyed at people who don't do the right thing and I've been in scuffles and arguments about this with strangers many times.
At times you do feel like you don't belong on earth and you are a complete different species and something that makes perfect sense to you doesn't seem so clear cut to others not on the spectrum and it is frustrating. I don't avoid human contact but I do prefer either people who pretty much think and act like me or people who basically just don't annoy me. I'm pretty judgemental which means I haven't really made as many close friends as I could have over my 20 years of working. If someone is into enough stuff that I find trivial then I cannot get past pleasantries. It's tough but learning all the time.
Chin up mate. Just gotta keep plodding along with it, managing and trying to push yourself as much as you can.

Thanks angieram. Fantastic photo and it's far better than my mates!
I did think of parachuting down from the top of the GG stand to take a Polaroid snap of it, but the health and safety element kicked into my brain, I thought do I really want to come tumbling down dragging the Derby County St George with me and then getting tangled up with 8 security men at the bottom before finishing off with a forward roll on to the pitch all as per Frank Spencer meets Norman Wisdom style at the IPro, so after umming and arrghing about it I opted to leave the parachute in it's bag.
2tups it was very quiet in The Flowerpot, 3 of us did manage to get in there at about 12:45pm ish and we enjoyed a few until 3pm and a quiet sing along to the jukebox, we then popped in The Silk Mill for one, then the Exeter for one and we walked to the ground just after 4:45pm ish, so I was in the ground just after 5pm ish to put the flag up etc I met friends back in The Brunswick after the game and we chatted to two Villa fans about the game before I left just after 9:30pm ish to catch the train back to Birmingham, avoiding a couple of young drunken thuggish villa boys in the same carriage, head down, headphones on, before killing the four hours in Birmingham before my 02:35am megabus back to Aberdeen. We'll catch up watching Burton/Newcastle games on Sky etc, I'll send an e-mail out to the troops etc and the flag is yours for the October game if you can be @rsed taking it etc.

I'm the bloke standing up on the stairway 4 steps up, to the right of the flag!......Up The Rams.

If you've left it in the Flowerpot, I'm down in October..

It'll be community payback. Have you seen the price of ankle tags ?

It'll be community payback. Have you seen the price of ankle tags ?

Can't beat home made.??????

Sandinista by The Clash and some Aphex Twin stuff.... 

Solpadeine on draft tomorrow ?

Concerned about the lack of harmmony surrounding Aberdeenshire's finest brewery (Brewdog). Just back from a lovely day at HQ. The guys are doing great missionary work sending hops to deprived places that otherwise would not understand them. Sad to say, on that basis, with Hartington, Jaipur and DBA on the doorstep; Derby has nae chance.

New long awaited Prefab Sprout album. Crimson/Red. Worth the wait.. Well I do declare its a cracker.

Doesn't look mardy enough

Mumford & sons BBC 3. Fantastic

T in the park.

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It was this or Barbados for us this year.

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