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Scottish bagpipes are wonderful but what about...

Uilleann pipes



(The playing starts around 2:58.)

When I lived in the country there was a young lad who I think was probably on the spectrum who used to wander the town new year's and christmas, late into the evening, playing the pipes. It was lovely.

First, Uilleann pipes, ^^^, I am going to listen to that later because right now the Formula 1 pre-race is on (LIVE).
However, I started looking up information about them.

What brought me to this thread.
My computer desk areas are a messy cluttered disaster, covered with papers and stuff. The keyboards, mice, and monitor have a bit of room. Only the mouse cares about room.
First step, gather all the papers, align them into a nice little stack. It's amazing how much that improves things.
I just need to go through the three stacks and pull out the paper that is to get read, recycled, or shredded.

I like this article: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12489661/ (Profiles in Nonverbal Learning Disability, Academic Skills, and Psychiatric Diagnoses in Children), especially Figure 1. Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD) Louvain Community Detection Profiles and Table 2. Nonverbal Learning Disability Parameters by Profile.

The race sounds exciting, pcgoblin!

The race is over and it sets up next week's race, the last race of the season. That is where the F1 championship will be settled.

Also, I watched/listened to the Uilleann pipes and the dance. I enjoyed them.

I would write more, but my sons want to continue our game of Civilization 7. I will lose spectacularly. Yesterday, I sent older son that younger son would not like what I was about to do. Created a new settlement on a little island, and then when it game time to expand that harmless island settlement, I did it in such a way that it reached the nearby island younger son was going to settle on. I was right. He declared war on me. LOL I seriously laughed so hard when he did that. Wait, this belongs in the what made you laugh thread.

I just won a Netflix voucher - so veeeery unexpectedly And I had just asked my mom for one as a gift on the occassion of the upcoming Saint Nicholas Day Yes, Babybird was indeed right, telling me recently I save a small fortune by winning all that stuff online, lol

I think that it often describes some autistic profiles: "Nonverbal Learning Disability describes a well-defined profile that includes strengths in verbal abilities contrasted with deficits in visual-spatial abilities. Individuals with NVLD often have trouble with some of the following: organization, attention, executive functioning, nonverbal communication, and motor skills" (from https://nvld.org/non-verbal-learning-disability/) and then it is autism in the first place and nonverbal learning disability in the second place (and not nonverbal learning disability without autism!).

pcgoblin I am grateful for what you have written. I think a lot of other people here will relate to it very strongly.

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People respond to intent above everything else I think. I believe that most people perceive and trust good intentions, and that this tends to shape their overall impression.

The one time I ever spoke with someone about my own anxieties, he stared at me blankly, said, 'for feck's sake, you're social *enough*', burst into laughter and walked away. It turned out he'd noticed... awkwardness, abrupt departures, periodic reclusiveness, but they weren't a prominent part of his perception of me because he thought my intentions were good.

I think that's probably the way it usually goes

(I had been worried that people in a new community wouldn't know I liked them because I was awkward and inconsistently sociable. But when I *was* engaging people could see I was sincere. So it was all fine. The awkwardness was more perceptible to me than to anyone else. I was told it's everyone's right to close the door and be 'not at home' to visitors, and I took that both metaphorically and literally.)

You are a kind and trustworthy person, pcgoblin, and you know many interesting things, and you tell a great story. That's the bulk of what most people will perceive, I think, because it is a lot.

My feeling is - hide when you want, mate. I know I do. Engage on your own terms. It's all fine.

I think most of us on the spectrum grow up with the experience of having the rug sporadically pulled from beneath our feet as we miss things, misinterpret things, fail to respond to cues or send the right signals... I think the anxiety of that often lingers with us. And it can happen to us as adults and it is not really any less painful so I do not mean to dismiss that sense of panic. But approaching kindly and in good faith will mean more than anything else to most people, I truly believe.

The Uillean pipes sound beautiful.

I'm hoping for a white Christmas this year.

I would have loved to have been around in the 50s and 60s when songs sounded similar to polka songs.

I've been going through my old posts, just in case I'm repeating myself. I know I am, but I'm curious what 2013 me said about things.

I found one thread called What Gender Is Your Brain?
I thought I'll take the test again, but the base site, http://www.blogthings.com/, but the host no longer works.

Another site was list at the end. It is a BBC site, and it opens, but the test requirements are -

One day I'd like to have Yorkshire puddings with squirty cream and fruit and syrup

Mmmmm yeah that does get me going