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When I was about 13 my Japanese tutor said I was 真面目な人.

He said, do you know what that means?

I said, oh yes, you think I am in earnest.

He said, what I mean is that you are not hasty and you do not change your mind about people.

He explained that Westerners might feel one way about someone they meet and then that view might go through numerous transformations over the course of months or years; for a Japanese person, he said, how you relate to somebody is something that takes shape in its own time, and then the outward form of the relationship might change but the inner substance ideally does not.

I don't know how he could have formed that impression when I was a spiky unpleasant 13 year old but I think it has been true for me. My feelings about people are resistant to change. I feel the same way about people I met 10, 15, 20, 25 years ago as I did when those feelings first formed.

The cultural difference as he perceived it is something I sometimes think about.

^ I tried to get in touch with him recently, because he and his wife were really so kind to me when I was a difficult teenager. I didn't fully appreciate at the time just how kind they were being. I am a bit sad that I seem no longer to have his contact details.

I won Diana Gabaldon's book - the sixth volume of "Outlander"

Irulan, you have some kind of magic

Is anyone else in your family lucky in this way? Where does it come from?

No one else in my family is into contests, so no When I was 21, I found some contest website and I instantly registered on it - now my cousins and my uncle, my dentist, my doctor, my psychologist as well as that lady working in my bank keep asking me all the time what I have just won Now I don't know what else I could wish for - I have basically everything I need. Sometimes I win really expensive things - a TV set, a game console, a voucher for buying pieces of furniture etc.

I like calico cats

I'm planning on making doll hats, balls and dishcloths in two more variegated colours.

I did a Norwegian "Matrix Reasoning-like" Mensa IQ test the day before yesterday and yesterday and my results were highly different - first time I got IQ 112 (79th percentile), second time I got IQ 128 (97th percentile) and second time I did the test 25 minutes, so I used the whole time for the test, there were 35 questions and 6 answers to choose in all the questions. Yesterday I achieved my new personal record in Matrix Reasoning-like tests - earlier was IQ 126 (about 96th percentile) from 16.12.2025 in Danish test with 39 questions and 8 answers for each of them and 40 minutes for doing the test. I do not know how I would perform in Matrix Reasoning in a Wechsler test or on Raven's Progressive Matrices test.

79 and 97 are both prime numbers and are a pair of mirror numbers.

I think that prime gaps are somewhat interesting. Prime gaps are differences between two neighboring prime numbers while the smaller of neighboring primes is subtracted from the larger of these two neighboring primes. First prime gap is one, second prime gap is two and fourth prime gap is four (3 - 2 = 1, 5 - 3 = 2, 11 - 7 = 4). The first prime gap is the only prime gap which is an odd number.

I think that NVLD is developmental visual-spatial disorder. Period. It can be comorbid with autism spectrum disorder. Not everyone with autism spectrum disorder has to have developmental visual-spatial disorder.

I think that poverty is unnecessary and that the phenomenon of poverty should disappear totally.

I heard in a film on YouTube that "mathematics is a science about zero, one and infinity" (Polish: "matematyka to nauka o zerze, jedynce i nieskończoności").

I would be interested how many people in the world population have at least one neurodevelopmental disorder.

I think that whiskers and tail of a cat add cuteness to this animal.

I hate autistic gatekeeping.

I can not talk with my sister...

I am notoriously angry because of the behaviors of my sister. Her behavior is very unpleasant and irritating for me. It occurs practically every day last months.

I might be angry because my sister has no disability pension (and she ever has no diagnosis of a pervasive developmental disorder)!

I have quite substantial support and disability pension, my sister has not. Her behavior looks stupid and nonsensical for me. It can be frustrating.

I want to deconstruct this person and how it's been acting for the last 30 years, and remade her into someone more aligned with myself.

Who wouldn't, tho?

Gained Number Post Count (1).
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Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

It was 10 years ago this month that I took off the Union Jack mask and started being myself, after putting on heirs for 30 years.

I read higher mathematics articles and proofs as if they are literature. Sentences to be read and which can be memorized somewhat easily, but never understood.

I tell myself that, after all, math is just layers upon layers of logical abstractions. Trying to "understand" math will just lead to one's burnout.

I won 131 things in contests in 2025

I might think that domestic cats are kitties and animals like lions and tigers are cats...

I would say that PDD/ASD was notoriously mislabelled as NVLD. VIQ much higher than PIQ does not have to mean NVLD without ASD. I suppose than a person can have VIQ significantly higher than PIQ and have ASD without NVLD.

I had extremely low, very low and possibly one only low average subscale in Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in 2016. One of subscales, Learning to learn, was below 1st percentile and at least one other subscale was between 1st and 2nd percentile and these results are extremely low, corresponding to Wechsler IQ below 70 (more than two standard deviations below 100, z-scores below -2). In WAIS-R test I had two subscales on extremely high range, corresponding to IQ 130+: Arithmetic (corresponding to IQ 141) and Information (scaled score 17 - it should correspond to IQ between 135 and 139). Certain WCST subscales were "in intellectual disability range" and certain WAIS-R subscales were in giftedness range when I did these test with the psychologists in 2016 on day hospital.