Maybe it's some sort of appendage?  Like a fluffy cotton tentacle arm or some sort of covert periscope eye?  Or maybe Peggy just fails at physics?

Dude, that's either a very soft mattress or an alien life form disguised as a mattress eating your sim.

Not until you mentioned it. 

I've had that problem in a different manner.  Convincing people I have an LD is damned near impossible.  I've had disabled students' advocates that tell others I don't have any disorder and I'm just lazy or bratty.  I think it's because even when I was younger, I knew I was attractive, so I put a lot of effort into the first impression I made, including hair, clothing, and makeup.  Now it seems I can put on a dog and pony show for a while, but it always fizzles.

I've also been extremely lucky with the doctors and therapists I have worked with.  Or maybe that's just because the few times I encountered someone I didn't like, I promptly told them so.  (My psychiatrist has a nurse I particularly loathe.  Whenever they try to schedule me with him, I go off on how I refuse to see that fey little hobgoblin.  Poof!  Spot on doctor's calendar opens.)

I have no idea what T children are.  I was just going with it for the sake of making the argument.

That 'label' has done a world of good and bad for me, I suppose.  It let me forgive myself for 10+ years of mistakes I'd made academically.  However, it also wildly altered my self-image.

Correction: stigmatize proper, left-thinking T children.  The left brain is, after all, where the seat of logic resides.

I would argue, as someone who is extremely gifted logically but less developed emotionally, that if the other six billion people on the planet are guided by degrees of emotion, I must at least understand the phenomena and be able to interact in that manner.  My mother and sister, not nearly as logical as I am but in possession of high social intelligence, are both master manipulators in social situations.  That's power, Pescado, whether or not it follows the dictates of reason.


Out of curiosity, calalily, do you ask your son why he thinks you attacked him?  Maybe that's already something you're doing, but analyzing my emotional responses has often given me a foundation on which I can understand my own emotions, which is a first step to understanding others'.  Self-awareness, for me, has been a huge part of growing socially.  Until I understood myself, for example, I couldn't properly make and maintain eye contact.  And speaking out loud is nice because it forces a noisy mind to sort through everything and focus.  Again, that's been my experience, but even if I'm on the spectrum I don't have Asperger's.

Could a separate domain name be used to post coconut's story on the server?  That way, the connection between the two doesn't have to scream in the reader's face.  It wouldn't be immediately obvious that it was part of PMDB, which is enough for average sheeple, and any anti-free hardliners aren't going to put stock in it.

The important thing here is to maximize butthurt, and the more people who give coconut a read, the more TSR's butt, well, hurts.

How old is your sister?  Because if she's anything like my little sister, I've gotten the impression she hates how much time and attention my parents have used on me.

Oddly enough, I was borderline for Asperger's as a child.  I even had the fascination with disasters - when I was in preschool, I'd read the paper and rattle off death counts to my teachers.  They actually questioned my parents about it, who then explained I read it myself.  But it's a struggle no matter where you fall on the scale - I know compared to many others with NLD or people on the autism spectrum I'm extremely high-functioning, but it's still hard when everyone expects you to be smarter and more successful than your peers, only to find out you're missing critical components to reach those goals.  Just a different set of issues, I guess.

It sounds like there are a lot of good parents on this thread.  Personally, I was diagnosed with NLD (which is kind of a distant cousin to the autism spectrum) in conjunction with some serious ADHD, when I was 16, and let me tell you, it was a bitch finding that out so late.  Although in many ways I'm fortunate, I have all sorts of terrible habits to  break now and it's rough feeling like you're trapped inside your head.

There's a special place in Hell for paysite owners who use their monies to buy used jockstraps, and an even special-er place for paysite owners who use their monies to buy used jockstraps, have the incredible social retardation to post this in public, and then wonder why no one likes them.  I don't even know what the penance for that would be.  Maybe hanging out in the Lake of Fire with dialup and stacks of clean men's underwear?

DOT makes me want to punch babies, if it makes you feel any better.  Actually, the whole post turns my stomach.

OMG Dot is batshit crazy.  I don't know why I feel the need to repeat what others have said.  Really, I don't, but I just read everything she says and my brain physically hurts because it's like she's spewing this tidal wave of Kool-Aid chugging stupid.  Seriously, in what universe does NOT demanding money for your creations make you less of an artist?  If that were true, what would indie kids have to complain about when their favorite bands "sell out"?

From everything I read, and LDG or anyone who knows her well, please swoop in and correct me if I'm wrong, it sounded to me like LDG accepted the FA status because she wanted to feel connected to the community.  She talked about picking people's brains - although I wouldn't pick half those twits' brains without a radioactive protection suit and very long sticks, there are certainly some great creators who were or are at TSR.  The part that kills me is had the staff made a real effort to connect to her on a genuine level, as something other than a potential cash machine, she probably never would've left.  And now that they're all scratching their heads and shrieking "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!?!?!" all I can do is 'stare into the abyss and let them stare back and it's fucking stupid.'

If you're reading this, LDG, you're a fantastic creator and I'm very sorry that something you enjoyed has become so sticky.  Take all the time you need; God knows I would.

I wish she didn't take so damn long to do so each time.  My God, that woman must have a herd of teal deer in her brain.

Yeah, I figured the virus was a bad accident.  The mug (if it's true) is kinda weird though...seriously, with today's shipping costs, who'd bother?  Whatevs.

I thought people like Windkeeper made 5K/month?  The $300/month sounds a lot more accurate.  And she did say she personally only made $120/month.  But those are still pretty big numbers when you add up the fact there are 60 FAs (not including Windkeeper, since she's unofficially retired).  Even if you lowball it and assume they all get $100/month, that's 72K each year for featured artists.  Holy fucking shit that's a lot of money.

*puts on tinfoil hat*

I think Thomas hacked her!  He realized she could still be useful to the TSR cause by being a victim of cruel and senseless hacking.  Her reaction is much more honest if he doesn't tell her, of course.  Because frankly, I don't see anyone here caring enough to bother.  Atwat's always provided a steady stream of stupid and drama without anyone having to exert effort; even Coconut's reasons for coming forward were less about her and more about the privacy violations going on behind the scenes.

Once she figures it out, I'm sure she'll take this as a sign of his affection.

ETA: I found this fascinating - it explains who "Jan Isacsson" is on the Paypal subscription form and WTF he does with his time.  Also OMG there's two of him.

EA would be crazy to come down against the pirates.  They know that custom content is what makes the game sell like hotcakes, and if they decided that paysites could enforce their "copyright," a lot of loyal customers would deflect.  (I know I would.)  I figured someone higher-up than the Maxoids (someone on the marketing end) heard about the changes and whacked the lot of them upside the head.

Oops, sorry about that!  For some reason I saw that and read Hecubus.  I guess at that time of night after 10 hours at work at 3 hours mocking the Presidential debate my eyes play tricks on me.  On the plus side, you got to visit New York.