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I have two twin nephews and they are completely different in personality. One is more literal, hands on, and practical. And the other is a bit more figurative, creative and imaginative. Anyway, I have a minor blemish that requires a band-aid on my neck. Our family met their family for dinner the other night and one of my nephews asks what happened to my neck. And I say zombie bite. My literal nephew says No, really. What happened? My more imaginative nephew asks Can I see the zombie bite?
July 20th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
How old are they? Because I have seen both phases in my eight-year old and now she gets it when daddy is being a smart-aleck. Sometimes she teases back, sometimes she tells me I’m full of sugar.
July 20th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
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July 20th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
The return of Reginald!
July 20th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
So, I guess all that Zombie prepartion was for nothing?
“Carry your f-ing (Zombie) guns people!”
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=12769.0
July 20th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Identical or fraternal?
July 20th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
fraternal
July 20th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
I have two nephews (brothers) and one is a cerebral egghead and the other is a Neanderthal. The egghead is good kid but he gets a little annoying. The Neanderthal doesn’t say much but the kid can shoot, sling arrows, gun a football and run like the wind. I seem to like spending time with the little meat-head more so than his brother.
July 20th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Don’t get on there bad side, I’ll bet they make one hell of a team when they have to.
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Jerry
July 20th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
How long before the transformation is complete? Can I have your guns when you join the legion of the undead?
July 20th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I think you have it backwards, Unc. A literal-minded concrete thinker would say, “Can I see the zombie bite?” and an imaginative guy would say, “No, really, what happened?”
Theory of Mind, and all that. I write as someone who considers himself to have at least a touch of the Autitude.
July 20th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Hmmmm, autitude. As is, say, with or without autism? I didn’t see that in the post. I’m sure he loves them both, they are his nephews, but that word seems to give me some, umm, trepidation. Autism is there, we can see it. We do not know what cause’s it. Mr. Carrey’s ex-wife aside, I don’t think that anyone else do, ‘needer. I think we should try, and find, the root of this problem. Should it come, before, all the other things that seem to kill all of us? I guess that depends, on, exactly what is. Let’s transmogrify back a few years. Sept. 11, without the year, because we all remember. Right? GDub is reading an upside-down book to small children. I waz not reading anything. I was watching the news. I was suprized. shit, losst myself, It caught me (off-guard).
July 20th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
Jerry, it’s not, necessarily, a problem. I regularly correspond with lots of seriously autistic folks on the ‘net, and without exception, every one of them makes more sense than you do.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:11 am
Justthisguy, that’s pretty encouraging for me, the grandfather of two Asperger’s Syndrome boys.
Makes me think there’s a possibility for a normal life for them.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:28 am
Nah, rick, maybe better than “normal.” Normal is a town in Illinois.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:37 am
Rick, if they can type, sign’ em up at WrongPlanet.net. It’s a huge forum for Aspies and Auties. For general information on autism and Asperger’s, I recomment autism-hub.co.uk. There are enough blogs and links there to get you started.
I hope and trust that you’ll teach ’em to shoot, too. Aspies make, if not the best gun nuts, the most earnest ones. As a guy at The High Road says, “How can you tell if you have an Aspie gun nut? He doesn’t have a range bag, he has a range _trailer_!”
July 21st, 2010 at 8:05 am
rickn8or, read ‘Look Me in the Eye’ by John Elder Robinson. In case you haven’t already. Great book.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:38 am
I have got to get me a breathalyzer for this thing.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:56 am
This guy says he has a “mild form of Aspergers Syndrome”. He seems to have a pretty “normal” life (actually, from where I’m sitting, he seems to have a better than normal life).
July 21st, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Yup, bob, I would say having a magazine full of high explosives is “better than normal.” Oh, and that’s John Elder Robison, not “Robinson.” He keeps a blog, too. I believe it’s jerobison.blogspot.com