Advice and Relationships Again: A Hypester's Tale

[Dark Raven]

That's a bit forced isn't it?

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Wasn't forced at all. They were natural puns to make about archery.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Bingo!

I say he's about fifteen, virgin, living in Mom's basement. The girls in his stories are real, but he hasn't had any physical contact with them whatsoever. He would love to, though, and his stories are about how he thinks he would go about doing that.

... or he really is a nut.

No, it reminds me more of this guy I worked with. He basically went around telling everyone this girl was his 'girlfriend' when it was widely rumored she was a prostitute. Then one day basically someone at work was able to prove that and he shut up about it.

 

[Erzengel]

Or some slight asperger's syndrome.

 

[steintym]

That's a bit forced isn't it?


Yeh, we're gonna see when she's next free and do something then. I mean we have the same day off but she usually has driving lessons.

Nice, give us an update. Success stories are nice to hear around this place.

 

[Anita18]

Or some slight asperger's syndrome.

Please don't say that. I have a cousin who I highly suspect has Asperger's (mention cameras around him and it's immediately obvious) and it PAINS ME that I will have to deal with Dreadstar's kind of crap 20 years from now...

 

[Hound55]

And are you financially stable enough to afford the finer things in life for her?

How dare you, sir...

I mean do you have any idea about the cost of upkeep on a van in a metropolitan area? I mean, sure, he may have had to save up for a while to get that but he clearly has some coin to splash around.

Just look at how he's painted it, with not one but two different colours... The white to paint out the windows and the bright red to write "Free Candy!" and a big arrow to the back door.

How dare you, sir...

 

[Dark Raven]

Bingo!

I say he's about fifteen, virgin, living in Mom's basement. The girls in his stories are real, but he hasn't had any physical contact with them whatsoever. He would love to, though, and his stories are about how he thinks he would go about doing that.




... or he really is a nut.

In one episode of HIMYM, Ted Mosby had a "Murtaugh list" which consisted of everything he felt he would have to say "I'm too old for this stuff" a la Danny Glover's character in Lethal Weapon.


At 50, wouldn't you be thinking "I'm too old for this stuff"?

 

[Lily Adler]

I hope he makes you feel better about yourself, at least?

A little.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Please don't say that. I have a cousin who I highly suspect has Asperger's (mention cameras around him and it's immediately obvious) and it PAINS ME that I will have to deal with Dreadstar's kind of crap 20 years from now...

Asperger's goes undiagnosed a lot remember. Some people have it and don't even know it. I think a lot of them could turn out like this. See what I see a therapist for I think is mostly environment. My parents were a little hyper-corrective, not on purpose I don't think. That you can kind of think and process your way out of. I think truly crazy individuals I meet have a little of both. Predisposition to social anxiety disorders or Aspergers and a kind of f***ed up life where nothing gets treated.

I think mine is manic depression, because I experience states where I'm incredibly confident, cool, edgy and suave. Then others where I'm very stern, awkward, kind of annoying and just sort of down.

I think mania is pretty common though for Asperger's too, what with Dreadstar's "Mr Spectacular" to "oh woe is me, I can't be alone". Mine aren't as pronounced as that but definitely similar.

Mine are more, "acts like Ryan Reynolds in Waiting...then acts like Calvin".

I am much more or an a** when I don't have my therapy or talk about my problems with someone. Otherwise I tend to blurt it out. I think people, perhaps like Dreadstar, go untreated for decades. Can't even rationalize it themselves. They really lose their sh** and become majorly self centered. It seems defensive to me.

At my height I made up all kinds of lies. Even about sex. I can't remember how elaborate it was, but it may have been fairly elaborate at times.

Usually what I find gets exaggerated by liars is the emotional component. That's the disconnect. Like they can piece together a reasonable sequence of events, but they don't know when emotions are appropriate because they've never experienced it.

Like guys on here who get wildly ******** because they realized a girl has no desire to sleep with them. I think they happened to me like ten times this week. Usually I don't notice. In rare cases it takes a day. Big whoop.

For the most part when I realize it's not going where I want it to go at 28 I go "well, nice knowin' ya". Because who cares?!?

So to be doing that at 50. Weird. I think it's gotta be like that.

 

[terry78]

I remember when Asperger's used to be called just being a nerd.

But there have probably been a lot of undiagnosed cases over the years that we never even knew about.

 

[Dark Raven]

There was a criminal with Asperger's syndrome once in Law and Order Criminal Intent. That drove him to commit various crimes within a certain radius without even realising it.

Of course, there was also another episode of L&O:CI featuring Neil Patrick Harris as a shy and socially awkward man who was so lonely and deprived of relationships that he was driven to committing depraved, cannibalistic acts against women just to feel close to them because he so badly wanted a girlfriend. It was a pretty moving performance and a radical departure from Barney Stinson (it was actually before HIMYM).

 

[hopefuldreamer]

So I went to archery with that girl today. Just got back infact. That was the best day off I've had in ages! So much fun. She had lots of fun, she was all spazzy happy about archery and really wants to go back again.

It was totally a fun day. She's just awesome.

So it was a date then, yeah?

Glad to hear it went well

How did the goodbye go. Did you kiss? Did you arrange another date?

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I think mine is manic depression, because I experience states where I'm incredibly confident, cool, edgy and suave. Then others where I'm very stern, awkward, kind of annoying and just sort of down.

That's not really what manic depression is...

That's just called good moods and bad moods.

 

[Anita18]

Asperger's goes undiagnosed a lot remember. Some people have it and don't even know it. I think a lot of them could turn out like this. See what I see a therapist for I think is mostly environment. My parents were a little hyper-corrective, not on purpose I don't think. That you can kind of think and process your way out of. I think truly crazy individuals I meet have a little of both. Predisposition to social anxiety disorders or Aspergers and a kind of f***ed up life where nothing gets treated.

But see, Asperger's isn't just about social anxiety. It's an inability to read social cues. Hell, I'm nervous in various social situations, but I can still read people fairly well. My bf is very socially awkward but he can still read people. He usually overreacts with his interpretation (IMO, I'm more optimistic and less cynical than he is), but when someone starts to get antsy while he's talking, he knows it's time to skip out. People with Asperger's don't have that filter. They just keep going and going and going...

If anything, people like that probably don't get embarrassed easily. They just say whatever and don't care if other people are uncomfortable.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I'm not sure if this is where I ask this, but I figure some of you in here might be able to give me a few good ideas.
This girl I like is leaving on the 18th for Germany for a year. She's having a going away party, but I want to do something special, that being make her a nice dinner. Now, seeing as I've never done something like this and I want it to be special, I need some ideas of what to serve, atmosphere, what to say/do, etc. Normally I wouldn't stress over this, but I really do like this girl and I want to do something extraordinary before she leaves.

Just wondering something here, is this the first time you're doing something like a date with this girl? Are you hoping to start going out with her when she comes back? Just seems weird to do something romantic for a crush (which it sounds like this is) just before she's about to leave the country for a year. Truthfully I'd just go to the going away party, don't pursue anything romantic.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, don't bother making a move until she comes back knocked up with some big German dude named Hans' kid or something.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

That's not really what manic depression is...

That's just called good moods and bad moods.

Not when it seems to have no apparent trigger. Like it just happens. Abruptly.

 

[The Guard]

That's called a good and bad mood swing.

Manic depression tends to be more gradual, and means you actually have periods of mania. You can be wildly energetic, restless and almost obsessive about things with a serious lack of judgment and social boundaries and sometimes no grasp on reality, and then have gradual or immediate corresponding periods of extreme depression.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Not when it seems to have no apparent trigger. Like it just happens. Abruptly.

Yeah. Good moods and bad moods don't have to have triggers.

My god, sometimes I just start crying for no reason. My emotions go up and down all the time. I suddenly get full of energy, have to go outside, get uber confident and just chat to random strangers... and then another day I will not want to leave the house at all, and will just want to crawl into my bed and watch movies. But that's just the normal ups and downs of life. Everyone gets them to some degree.

My half sister had manic depression really bad. So bad she was hallucinating and had to be institutionalised. It's really not the same thing.

And it's certainly not the kind of thing you can just go around saying 'yeah I think i've got manic depression', cause it's a serious enough illness to not talk about until you're sure.

If you're really worried, get yourself checked out by a psychiatrist. Otherwise, I wouldn't just go musing about it.

 

[Erzengel]

Sometimes I cry when I do long division and I get a remainder.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

An advert for spreadable butter made me cry the other day

 

[knowsbleed]

Sometimes I cry when I do long division and I get a remainder.

What kind of Asian are you?!

 

[ComicChick]

Comic Chick? Isn't she a moderator here?

I also thought this but I don't think it's her. Just some crazy chick that loves to get naked and drunk at parties and enjoys older guys to grope her, but I think she's not real.

Heck no he aint talking about me. i would never!

 

[knowsbleed]

Never say never. He's probably just dropping subliminal hints.

 

[Speedball]

As ComicChicks personal bodyguard, I would not allow it to happen.