***~**space rocks**~***[asthma & allergies]

as always, great job done: Marina

Talking to my daughter, a college student, she siad the related orgin of the football [huddle] was from some deaf football team somewhere out East.

I just know that you know and now I want to know.

Love ya,

Gary

“How can you possibly know what I think?” I’m just going by your post – in which you said that you felt that I had assumed you to be “by default, stupid, or, at least, less intelligent. It can make you look foolish.” And you also said, that I was “pompous and patronising. Ergo, I [you] am [were] offended.” And the general character of your posts were clear to me that you had taken offense to me. If you haven’t taken offense, then that’s good. If you have, then I regret that.

You now say this, “This suggests maybe you do subconsiously believe you control, or can read, people’s perceptions and thoughts.” Sir, you accused me of “assuming’ you were stupid. Therefore, is it not you who asserted knowledge of my thoughts, not vice versa? You PLAINLY STATED you were “offended” – your words, not mine. I was trying to correct your misapprehension that I claimed you were stupid, which appeared to me to be the source of your “offense.” I don’t claim to know what you think – I only read your posts.

You loathe being patronized, you say – however, you are quite good at it – it’s all you’ve done. You say you don’t speak of an “attack”, which is the sense I got from your post, but as I said – you did speak directly about being “offended” by me. For me to offend you I must have written something that you perceived as offensive to you. If you’re saying that’s not an “attack” then that’s settled then.

You said, “Again you appear to be telling me what I am thinking. Maybe I should have been more blunt: yes, I dislike you and, yes, I intend to belittle you by pointing out that you referred to a “false clam”. I should have thought that was fairly obvious.” You’re right, I interpreted the tenor of your post and pointing out my spelling error as a disingenuous attempt to belittle me. And then you tell me that my interpretation was dead-on correct! Think about it – I’m not telling you what you are thinking, your posts are very clear on that.

You then make the absurd claim that I “keep” repeating the details. I never STATED the details in the first place, other than to say one can google it, and in my first post I said three letter name of the source. If I wanted to state the details, I’d have copy and pasted the link.

You close your post, again, with direct attacks against me, which were completely unprovoked. I have displayed no lack of empathy – just the opposite actually, along with the patience of Job. My thought process is far from linear, and linear thinking, by the way, is not a symptom of autism. If I had autism, it wouldn’t be anything to be ashamed of. It’s serious health condition, and not one that can be diagnosed by you based on a few posts on a website.

You accused me several times of telling you what you think, etc. Yet, isn’t that what you’ve claimed to know about me? You ascribed to me disingenuous-ness and made assumptions about what I think, accused me of lacking empathy. You even went so far as to evaluate my thinking process! You seemed to take extreme umbrage when you said that you thought I had made assumptions about what you think, yet you wasted no time at all doing exactly what you accused me of doing (and worse).

I’ll leave this on a positive note. You seem like a nice person who misinterpreted what I intended as a very benign contribution. I have tried in every one of my responses to you to make it clear that I don’t dislike you (I can’t like or dislike you, since I don’t know you, and don’t judge you personally based on your posts here), don’t think you are stupid, and don’t think you have a mental disability.

I NEVER MEANT TO OFFEND YOU. For my part, I’ll forgive you the vile statements you’ve made to me, and wish you all the best in life. Cheers!