Hello from Brazil ^^

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My name is Taly, I am 21 years old. During my life I've been diagnosed ADHD, bipolar and hyperlexic.

The hyperlexia spectrum left lots of traces in my life that I still keep, counting words, numbers and teaching myself everything made people call me Taly Da Vinci, but at the same time they fooled me and tricked me all the time and teased me, that's no drama, I would hate to be who they are.

I've never had a boyfriend and I considered funny/goofy/silly/eccentric/indelicate but friendly but I tend to scare "friends" and sometimes they are ashamed of me.

I have problems in understanding people and some people say I am pedantic, selfish and egoloter, but I extremely care about people and am a very religious person. I just have a different way to care, and this different way scares people. I live in the world of the small things and love collecting pieces of things that are broken. Also love to watch tv channels in languages I don't speak but in all of a sudden alien things happen to me ^^.

Reading dictionaries in my childhood marked my life. As a latin, our languages are not as objective and specific as English is, one word can mean 4 or 8 different things and not getting the sense of them made me be teased a lot. Brazilians besides italians are the most expressive people, they gesticulate a lot and the meaning of a word has to do with the entonation of their speach.

So I am the kind of person who claps when nobody is clapping and sits when everybody is doing that. So yeah, I had to go to the dictionary and look for a good meaning in order to clap. I always feel like "What's going on here?" Understanding people's figures of speech took me to mithology, phillosophy, morphology and antropology, but I can handle other areas so well that people said "you can't be an asperger, aspergers are limited in this or that"

And also the fact that I believe in G-d and love reading the Bible and love reading and reading in different versions and languages pissed off brazilian aspies who attacked me a lot in a 10,000 people forum. I love numbers and words. So when someone says "love", I ask, "agapi, phillia, eros, charutas or storge?" and when people say "black" and I ask "do you mean Gris de Paine or 800thz?" It irritates people a lot. I love to investigate the sense behind everything which intrigues everyone.

So yeah, people always come with an ADHD diagnosis, but ADHD always get what's happening I think, which is not my case and I think they don't spine while walking on the street like nobody is noticing or repeat some movements they had since they were kids. Yeah, that's abstract, as G-d is, and the fact that I sculp and paint very realistic, excludes me from SA in Brazil and that I can make jokes is another mysterios, but I get furious when other people joke. I never know when a guy is hitting on me unless he declares his love for me which I coldly say "I am sorry I don't eros you". The way I move and speak is weird, and I have a plastic face as people say. Teachers and parents treat me like I should be a star, but I just want to be myself and the things I am interestead in doing are usually "stupidy". I have no ambition. I just want to be. I'd love to have a family, G-d of course, a guy who is a good listener OF COURSE and who always says "you're right" LOL that's utopic, collections of exotic stuff and yes kids.


So yeah, everybody here is not NT, so whatever I am, I feel good to know I am not alone.

Wow, you sound very interesting. I have sometimes been known for browsing dictionaries but I prefer encyclopaedias and thesauruses myself. But than again, I tend to focus on the context, application and, er, phonology of an particular word rather just the meaning.

Philosophy eh? Any particular field? I'm fairly interested in some branches of ethics and meta-ethics. I like philosophy that isn't wholly impractical so I'm not really into theories of perception, but I'm ok with epistomology.

I have compulsion in reading, writing and making-up equations that don't exist. So words and numbers are my FIELD and that's so abstract. And relating words with numbers with colours and tastes and shapes . I like to know why every word has "this meaning" and why this number is this number, like when we say thank you in my language "obrigado" it means we say "obligated" istead of "thank you". Then I didn't understand why. Everytime I wanted to say thank you I said "sorry" and people didn't understand. So I had to reserach why all latins say "for free" and we brazilians say "forced" and "obligated" when we receive a gift, then I had to research and found out the Portuguese(that sent settlers to my country) colonized the north of Japan and obrigado comes from the ancient word "arigatai" nowadays arigato (and it meant, it hurts me a lot). And then I say? Why can't people just give back something that hurts them a lot? So that's how I end up in other fields like antropology, philosophy, linguistics, etc. I give compliments like "You are so chocolat" but people are always telling me it's not okay to say that, I write well, but I speak badly.

Welcome, Taly, from the California corner of Wrong Planet to yours in the great country of Brazil. Now be sure to take great care of yourself, Taly, and keep those posts coming. Be well.

Welcome to WP!

¿hablas espanol?

Hello from rainy England. seriously it is so wet outside right now that I want to cry! I am OBSESSED with dictionaries and foreign TV/songs. It doesn't matter if I understand it or not but I get right overexcited if I see something like that on sale! I used to sleep with my dictionary instead of a bear!

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Hello from England!

Magliabechi.

hi Taly

Bienviendos al Wrong Planet!

You are a lot of fun.

I can sympathize with reading dictionaries - I used to do that as well.