ok, I think I've got the hang of it........hello !

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ok, hello everyone,
just discovered this forum ( properly that is, have hit apon it before but now finally registered etc )

I am pretty sure I am an aspie - certainly synaesthesic, which crosses over big time, anyway somewhat dubious about official diagnosis ( nhs in england would be the option - I gather it's pretty tricky being believed as an adult female aspie) but it's good to have found this place. Are there any aspies in the south of england region out there ???

ok, a bit about myself - I'm an artist - that means I have interests in almost everything, anyway I'm primarily an installation artist , 41 in human years.......somewhat confused about how my aspieness awareness is going to pan out - have been interested in 'brains' / neuroscience / neuropsychology for quite some years now - currently disturbingly amazed at how 'nt's seem to tick ( ok, always have been but it's getting harder and harder to 'compute' or to relate to). eerm......they seem so 'primitive' - that's not quite the right word - but the nearest i can get to if I put it in inverted commas.....

anyone out there?

salutations from 5th element

Welcome to WP! enjoy your stay, and remember the refreshments are at the top of your browser (the one that says ´refresh´ on it)

cheers - feel like I'm bungling around the site still, but I'll get used to it . btw you have the same birthday as my greyhound - well, what I mean is - that felt like friendly start to my posting! - brain all over the place at present -thus connections like that are 'soothing' - and i'm not too great with words today.......feeling 'ueber newbie' if you get my drift

Very understandable, I make connections like that all the time. Such as the fact that my uncle Rick´s birthday is Jan. 5, and my name is Nick and my birthday is Jan. 4
If you ever want to talk on AIM/MSN/Skype its in my profile

thanks again - i don't have skype as yet - but cheers for suggestion. the 'nick / rick' connection is funny for me - because of my synaesthesia - 'nick' should be after 'rick' ( birthdate wise) because of the colour associations with the letters - ie red should come before black . Anyway your birthday date is a blue day and your name is black so this makes me think of a bruise!!

Nice! When you say I was born on a blue day, that makes me think of Daniel Tammets book, ¨Born On a Blue Day¨
He to has synaesthesia and he describes how his birthday is blue to him.
I have a bit of synaesthesia too, such as I associate certain words with feelings, colors, smells, and tastes. And I can easily tell a prime number when I picture it in my head, I see the number, and if it turns red, it is composite, and if it turns blue, it is prime. But I really have to concentrate on it, it is too faint to picture it all usually.

Nice to meet you, 5thelement.

Hello.
Welcome to WrongPlanet.

hi - thanks for the warm welcome from you other folks - smiles -

Raven/ psmaster - yeah i thought that too, almost said 'hey' you were born on a blue day same as daniel' - but reckoned you'd already be there . great! you have 'synnievision' too - i read daniels book for the first time about a year ago - and it was yup, yup, yup, know exactly what he means - except one of my forte's is languages rather than maths........but primes fascinate me.......althoug I know very little about them other than they seem to have colour coded significance to me - but I'm totally rubbish at maths now - too many years of having to show my workings out via school methods when I just knew the answer has left me feeling totally incapable ( I couldn't explain how I arrived at answers) - I don't think I can get that ability back now. I keep trying to figure out whether my coloured numbers from one to ten have any realtion to primes - scuse my 'stupidity' but I've just lost total confidence in that area. I'm wondering if you can see any pattern in the following - whether prime related or not - ok, the first number to form a continuing code is 3 , as it is light red and then that doubles to a darker red when it becomes 6 , by the time it has tripled to 9 it has become blackish reddy purple - this all seems logical , however the same does not happen with 2 - which starts of as orange but when doubled becomes light blue (4) and then doubled again to eight which is mid to dark blue. Hope I'm not boring you! or anyone else for that matter - but it's bloody cool to be able to just come out with this stuff!
Do your numbers have textures?

My numbers used to have textures, when I was much younger.
And starting out with 2 being orange and then doubling to be blue, it may be because 2 is the only even prime digit (It is my favorite number for that reason) and that 2 shows its significance by being orange, but if you were to look 'behind' the orange you will see a lighter shade of blue. Just a thought

To WrongPlanet!! !

psmaster - interesting thought - thanks, it's like an 'orange two' can't be doubled/ tripled anyway as it only seems to work with prime colours. The most obvious connection I made after your suggestion to 'look behind' the two was that blue is the complementary colour to orange - I think there is something in that ...
cheers

hi there - fairly new to this whole thing myself but stick-around it becomes addictive

yes, I'm from south of England too

Hi!

Welcome to Wrongplanet!

I hope you enjoy posting here!

hi Jason and Drybones - thanks for the welcome,

Drybones - good to hear from you - whereabouts in south of england - pm me if you prefer to answer that in 'privy' . It's all so ultra 'newbiefying' in many respects - the forum and the aspie thing both. But sooo much does fit into place - with the aspie thing especially - although I suspected I could be 'autistic' when I overheard a documentary my parents were watching when I was about six - so I piped up ' you know, i think that's me' .....answer , no, no, you are artistic , not autistic.....quite funny in retrospect ....but the seed had been sown.
It all makes so much sense now - pennies dropping and so on - but completely freaked by how to deal with getting it through to people - if they could really accept it I think it would make life so much easier - at least i hope so. I've been in deep cover for a very long time!

how did your penny drop?

5th

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