dus it mattur if sum peepul spel the od wurd rong NO
You know, if the world was full of perfect people ..wouldnt it be boring?
Full of people with the same education, same up bringing, same tastes , same principles etc etc...
What one has to recognise is that we each are individuals , with the rights to say what we want , how we want, when we want.. Who gives anyone the right to say that someone is spelling wrong and that it makes a difference in the forum?
Theres no fun out of humiliating people wether it be directly or indirectly in these forums,its a shame that we members have got feelings and get hurt from words on a screen..It does seem tense in the forums some times,wether it is intended or not.
Thats life... just get on with it,theres more to worry about than a few misspelt words.... surely?
This wasnt aimed at anyone in particular either...just the site as a whole, after all without all types of members paying or none paying members there would be no site, so where could you post your views then?.....
firstly I wish to thank sgt bilko for reopening this thread! I always loved watching you on telly and will buy your next dvd
secondly to winchwench your comment did not offend as I believe that I can always be understood if ppl listen or read what I have to say! I seem to be sadly mistaken there and will change my ways as I do not like confrontations!
thirdly to westerross thank you for the pm I am sorry that I was so sharp that you felt the need to mail me and it is not taken as a personal insult even it I may seem to do so at times. however this first started 4 or 5 threads ago and has increased in vitriol over a period ending with 2 other ppl attempting to tag team me and I don't respond well to that!
this was after I had responded to a personal attack by pointing out that I was dyslexic and bi polar ect and that in these forums I treat them as tho I am talking to equals in the pub not writing political speeches to state a position and as such I do not use spellcheckers or proof read what I write. I do believe that you did not post any comments on the last thread therefore all I can assume is that you have either been setup to elicit a negative response or did not know the context of your comments and I must apologise most deeply to you for my uncalled for attack
finally unc I read your post with great interest about my post and would like to speak to you about your comments and observations I am more than happy to do this here in the forum and I will accept any comments so long as ppl accept that the don't believe you any excuse type comments are going to receive very short shrift from me so I don't know if it is appropriate I would like to hear yours and anyoneelses comments before I hijack this thread
thanks again to sgt bilko
Will,
firstly, :thumbup: for responding in a calm, measured manner.
I genuinely didn't know if what you said was aimed at me, or Tune. I merely wanted to check that you had read my entire post. Not just the bit Tune quoted- but particularly what I said about my Dyslexic/ lousy spelling friends, and more importantly, their I.Q's.
I really don't have a clue about most of the other stuff you mention. However, I do stand by what I said about making an effort to be understood in the forums. Take your pub example. If you we're trying to get your point across to your equals, I'm assuming that you would be as articulate as you could be. You wouldn't sit there using a series of "grunts" or saying "Yer, but no, but" would you?
That's all I was trying to say, that if we wish to be understood, we should use all the tools available to us to be so. I'm not saying we should all aim to be word perfect, spell check everything & have it proofread by Will Shakespear. And for the record, I can mostly understand what you are trying to get across. There have been some forum posters in the past who have literally left me completely unable to make sense of what they said.
W
speak up, not shut up!!!!
lp
Ok so where do I start? I suppose at the beginning is a good place!
I suffer from bi polar disorder. i am a manic depressive I can be high and low at the same time! I am dyslexic, I suffer from migraines, I believe that I may be borderline asperser's.
Hay there is a good start.
I am very intelligent! you will have to judge the accuracy of that statement but I will endeavour to justify it!
I don't know how long I have been like this but I believe I was born this way!
I am 51 years old.
You may wonder what my age has to do with this, but as a child going to school in the sixties, the way children with learning disabilities were dealt with was not nice! and I have spent a lot of my life hiding my disabilities so that I did not get labelled!!
Twice I have looked for medical help, on one occasion I was told ,I was "bad not mad" ,on the second occasion the ppl wanted to section me as a schizophphrenic! I am not a schizophrenic!!
If you will excuse me, I will deal with this later, firstly I will deal with the dyslexia as that is maybe the most important thing, to you the readers of my posts, and your excuse to ignore any point I make that you have no argument against and do not wish to accnolodage as it places you in a light that you do not like!! However they are all linked and that will make some of this seem very disjointed, so I will try to do this in little bits, lots of middling length posts, if I tried to do it in one post I would delete the post and shut up and I don't believe that is a good thing,
as a dyslexic the most obvious thing is my inability to spell the same word the same way twice in a row and difficulty in reading!
this does not mean I cannot read it means words and letters disappear or rearrange themselves!!
Bs become Ds Os Qs and via ser versa also small words in's, at's, on's, no's disappear completely sometimes whole lines can do so too!
This means for me to be sure that I have read a text properly I need to read it at least twice!! and preferably with a gap between readings!
Other thing's that it means are i have difficulty with balance and rhythm!!! these I can cover quite easily by not dancing and being very careful in my movements, also my coordination is not as good as it should be but again it can be covered most of the time and most ppl never link being clumsy with dyslexia and if I am very careful it is not apparent!
The stutter that also goes with my dyslexia is easy to hide most of the time! no one stutters when they sing! so when i speak it is with a singsong voice that some think is camp! and have bullied me for in the past but I can live with that it is the lesser of two evils!!
The only time that my stutter becomes apparent is when I loose my temper and then the ppl who have wound me up to the point of loosing all control think its funny that I cant get my words out!!
they generally stop thinking it is so funny when they find me beating the living crap out of them!
By the way I served in HM Armed Forces for 5years 207days and have seen active service in NI and the Falklands so when I snap it is not pretty! and I hate violence so when forced to use it I really go over the top!(I believe that this may be as a result of the bipolar disorder but I do not use that as an excuse for inexcusable behaviour
Ive recently discovered that my inability to type is down to charcot marie shark disorder.
How about that for a mouthful.
Wyrd biæð ful aræd!
now for the bipolar bit!! god this is the real killer!!most of the time I am on the highest high tat you can imagine! and I would not change it for the world! but it does have certain drawbacks, I tend to open my mouth and let ppl no what I think before i consider their feelings this leads to hostility, the hostility is felt by me!(it is one of the lesser known bits of being bipolar,that is that you are extra sensitive to your surroundings) this can (does) lead to paranoid feelings, this then leads to depressed feelings and........then the pit! and at the bottom of the pit is a very ANGRY individual that you would not want to meet! (I think this is why so many bipolar sufferers are wrongly diagnosed as schizoid) I have no proof of this only my logic.
One thing is for sure tho and that is that most bipolar individuals spend their life under the radar and as a result of this the condition is not understood by either the sufferers or the medical profession
When you add to this the fact that most bipolar individuals when tested are found to be in the top 10% in cardrill IQ tests and the top 2% in non written IQ tests it is no wonder that we hide under the radar as it seems to us that the only time anyone takes notice of us other than to dismiss us for our lack social graces is to lock us up as dangers to society!
Will u will find a lot of friendly faces here.
now for the kickers! and god they take some dealing with.
Comorbidity is the rule, not the exception, in bipolar disorder. The most common mental disorders that co-occur with bipolar disorder are anxiety, substance use, and conduct disorders. Disorders of eating, sexual behaviour, attention-deficit/hyperactivity, and impulse control, as well as autism spectrum disorders and Tourette's disorder, co-occur with bipolar disorder. The most common general medical comorbidities are migraine, thyroid illness, obesity, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Associated Mental Disorders
Bipolar I Disorder is often associated with: alcoholism, drug addiction, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Social Phobia.
excuse the cut and paste but these are the links from one to another in my problems. It has taken me the last 51 years to get to where I am now! I like my sexual behaviour I like my mania I don't like my loss of control at times I don't like the black pit I enter every now and then but if loosing the pit means loss of all the plusses I'll live with the pit!!!!
as for my posts I do not use word cut and past ect because if I did I would censor myself to the point of silence and I have read some very well put together posts here that have no foresight and if their views are left unchallenged we will end up living in orwell's 1984
and to those ppl and they know who they are!!
I WOULD WILLINGLY DIE FOR YOUR RIGHT TO HOLD AND EXPRESS THOSE VIEWS EVEN THO I FIND THEM REPUGNANT IN THE EXTREME!!!!
COULD YOU SAY THE SAME ABOUT YOURSELF AND SAY MY VIEWS!!!
I apologies for using the caps lock but some things need to be shouted!!
I speak as I find when I find it or I stay silent to me there is no middle road is that social phobia I am on the hyperactive side of the spectrum in thought and action so any hints to make me a nicer person shud i realy use word and then censor myself!
And if any of you think this is some type of whinging moaning diatribe go (sorry Bilko) FUCK YOURSELVES!
because I have NEVER BEFORE in my life gone to this length to try and make ppl understand!!!!
dont think I have anything else to say
any and all comments please thanks sarge and cherrytree
unc have I answered your questions and have you any advice or comments
hi fanny dont know if its any help but in my late teens I discovered rock climbing this may seem a silly thing for some one who is clumsy but it is safe the moves are slow and it takes total concentration and focous on the next move it may help your child and their condition
It will give them a sence of achievment and a sport where they will not be the one that is last to be picked and have to endure the "awe sir/miss do we have to have them!"
and it is fun!!