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[Lord Shonus]

Don't be silly. I've never hallucinated before (and the ghosts before would have been impssoible for me to hallucinate anyway.)

[Cthulhu]

You know what the only thing worse than having abysmal luck (First two blocks were deaths, one apothecaried to gouged eye.  5/3 turns in the first half had 1s as the first roll.  More failed 1-opponent dodges into safe squares than successful ones as a wood elf team)?

Playing with abysmal luck against a guy who apparently thinks this is the world championship.  He scored three times in the first half.

Seriously, I don't know why he's so intent on turning this from a hideous loss to an unrecoverable one.

Wiggly has had a change of heart.  No more Wiggly's Hugglebuddies the wood elf team.  Wiggly's Murderbuddies the Dark Elf team.

EDIT:  This is fucking ridiculous.  I know skill is more important than luck and you can't rely on the dice, but fuck these guys haven't made a single bad roll the entire game.

[Bauglir]

My thoughts run to hax? I don't know how the game works, though, or if that's even possible with it.

[Cthulhu]

No, no...  When I'm mad I pretend that you don't make your own luck.  When I'm not mad anymore I remember that the reason I had bad luck and he had good luck was because he managed his luck well and I mismanaged mine.

[Vector]

Meh.

Vis-a-vis my wall-o'-post:

Thanks for your consolations, sympathies, and sigs.  Bauglir is basically correct, with the following twist: I don't actually know what is correct or incorrect, but I do know that, having had loads of people tell me what my neurological setup is without any true insight into my past or current behavior and experience, I'm a bit tired of it.

There's also the theory that certain amount of intelligence => different thought schemas and pattern, so I don't know.

The thing to me that seems strange is that I feel almost like I've learned social skills the same way I learn any other language, which usually ends up with more fluidity than most nonnative speakers and more focused analytical power than native speakers, but a certain tendency towards "jolting breakdowns" that leave me at capacity = 0 sometimes.

I can say I definitely learned quite a few social skills over the past years, and that my "initial history" had me rather disadvantaged compared to most people, with a gap that slowly increased; I never got into trouble because the "rules of engagement" were very clearly laid out for everyone.  It was things like "talk to other children" that caught me up.

So, what can I say?  It's like the diagnostic measures half-fit and half don't-fit, not in terms of elements, but in terms of time frame.  At this point I identify with the diagnosis because I have quite a bit of trouble relating to others still, with an obvious demarcation between "off" and "on" that takes a good amount of problematic time to boot up, and with "on" rather shitty in certain respects.

It's not really that important, but I'd like to be able to decide for myself, rather than being told what I am.  That's all.

[Tellemurius]

Vector its a very bad idea for anyone to self diagnose themselves even with the right training.

[iceball3]

Vector its a very bad idea for anyone to self diagnose themselves even with the right training.

I'm going to have to agree here.

[Karnewarrior]

I hate the sun.

I hate how it's so damn hot and too damn bright.

And today I'm doing yard work. In Florida.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

[JoshuaFH]

While I do have to agree with the previous two, it's certainly a step in the right direction to notice that something is not right, and getting the idea in your head of what it is.

I remember that I personally learned most of my social skills, not through testing and experimentation with other people, but through wild theorization and play acting thousands upon thousands of scenarios in my head. In my teenage years, my mom worried for me as she'd often walk in on me talking with myself as though I were two people. This has the distinct drawback in that while my personal speaking ability was much higher than your average person (from the repetitive practice), when confronted with an unexpected scenario, I'd whiplash secondguess my reasoning and simply not know what to say, leading to some rather awkward situations.

I also feel that my time here on Bay12 has helped me become a more fluent speaker (as far as context goes) and has improved my written communications in professional settings tremendously.

[Tellemurius]

Vector its a very bad idea for anyone to self diagnose themselves even with the right training.

I'm going to have to agree here.

As all of the physiologists do, you would be doing serious harm to your mental state.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Relax a bit more. It's not the end of the world and there's no point in bringing yourself any more stress and suffering.

I was going to do a long write up but fuck it, I'm kind of in an amicably joyful mood right now and I don't feel like delving into my own hilariously-twisted psyche at the moment. I promise I will start a thread later.

But just know that there are people who go through the same sort of experiences and struggle, even if they appear perfectly normal. In that way we're all certainly not alone.

[MaximumZero]

Ooh, if you're making a thread about twisted psyches, I'm in. Anyway, Vector, we love you how you present yourself to us. Granted, we only get what you put on our monitors, but that doesn't diminish the opinion of mine that you're one of the coolest around.

[Tellemurius]

I'm really gonna get my ph.d in psychology from this place >_>

[KaelGotDwarves]

I thought about going into psychology but I decided that field didn't need any more crazy people. 

So I changed from Mechanical Engineering to Sociology. Sociology always struck me as applied philosophy- cultures, groups, institutions, people, ideas...

[Angel Of Death]

Uristisdeadtome just got banned!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NOT URIST!