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6 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Hyber-Verbal Autistic ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I know one hyper-verbal person very well, and know there was no particular trauma - it's just always poured out very fast. But the information was coherent for listeners - if almost too fast to listen to.

Whether stress is involved - other than us goodnaturedly pointing out it was coming very fast - I don't know, but I think this person would love to slow things down a bit. Extremely intelligent, voracious reader from the age of 3.

6 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Stop Claiming Autistic... · 0 replies · +1 points

Rapists are responsible for their own choices. To say anything else is to call them non-human.

Many people have the same experiences in childhood that the rapists do, and in adulthood, and do not choose to turn to rape.

Same with anything else: own what you do, and work toward improving it - or suffer the consequences. I know the consequences in our society are ridiculously exaggerated in many cases, but giving someone a pass for 'not knowing what they did is wrong' is true in extremely limited numbers of cases of severely damaged people. And someone capable of functioning at a reasonable level doesn't get that pass. Period.

6 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Hyber-Verbal Autistic ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Tricky. Thanks for the explanation. I'm assuming it is also something with differences in degree - one autistic person's hyper communication is much faster and more disconnected to the listener than some other autistic person's hyper communication.

Must be very frustrating to not be able to moderate thoughts and words as they come out. I hope it is something at least partly learnable.

I always credited it to intelligence, to having so many ideas because the speed of thought was huge, that it made expressing them hard.

9 years ago @ http://www.bert-bloggi... - The Wisdom Series · 0 replies · +1 points

Travis McGee is not pulp fiction. It is literature. A bit older and dustier around the corners, and dated in places. But McDonald transcended pulp. Like many of the greats.

10 years ago @ http://www.bert-bloggi... - Take It · 0 replies · +1 points

Some people spend their entire lives like that, being dragged along by 'Fate' at every possible turn, kicking and screaming. Decisions are tough - but not deciding IS a decision, too.

Good post.

10 years ago @ Tuesday Serial - Serializing "Quantum D... · 0 replies · +1 points

Two questions:

Have you gotten much feedback?

And have you asked for it directly?

I have a small but loyal number of wonderful people who read Pride's Children every week, as I put up a new scene every Tuesday. But I give them my absolutely most polished work, and, while I get comments, Likes!, and some occasional emails, I never get much in the way of feedback, and only once or twice in a year and a half of episodes have I even gotten a plot suggestion.

What I do is not a true serial, like a soap opera, which can pivot quickly if the star dies; instead, I'm serializing a novel, by putting it out there one piece at a time.

I'm curious how other people work.

Alicia

11 years ago @ http://www.bert-bloggi... - Meeting In Vicksburg · 0 replies · +1 points

What a treat! I'm envious - and couldn't do it, but wish I could.

Alicia

11 years ago @ http://www.bert-bloggi... - The High Road - Chapte... · 1 reply · +1 points

Like your live traffic feed, Bert - nice to see the visitors from all over.

Alicia

11 years ago @ http://www.bert-bloggi... - Goodness Without A Motive · 0 replies · +1 points

Sweet - they wouldn't have made it without help. That's why people need to close trash bins securely.

11 years ago @ http://www.bert-bloggi... - On Perfection · 1 reply · +1 points

I know, I know. Sometimes when I change a word or a phrase, the key that I'm done is that either version would have been fine - and it is as good as it's going to get today.

Stories need to have certain standards - which vary per person - to be readable. But after that, there is a point where it is better to toss it out into the cold and do another, than to keep polishing it.

Where did I read 'the perfect is the enemy of the good'?

This morning I blocked everything else, including my niggling thoughts on improvement, and just wrote. I need to do that until I reach the end of Book 1 - and then polish the last quarter. It is hard - it isn't my usual way. But I think sometimes you need to do things different ways - to break out of a mold.

We'll see how it goes - Life is looming for a while.

On the good side, on Monday I get my new hi-tech walking aids - and I am looking forward to walking. That alone will put me in a good mood (assuming I'm not expecting too much). A trip to Mexico to see my parents will be good, also, no matter how dire things are.

I will look for the perfect flowers.

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