Re: Asperger's Syndrome and French expressions in English

At 20:07 23/06/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>> I had this passion for pair numbers when I was a little boy. I remember
>>me
>>> counting the steps from my house to my elementary school. Yet I
>>remember i
>>> always had to put the right foot before the left one when i entered a
>>new
>>> hall.
>>
>I dislike symmetry, unless something has to have it. Formal gardens bore
>me, and patterns while nice dont really interest me. In fact, i dislike
>symmetry so much I tend to prefer to draw things that arent symmetrical,
>and have also designed my garden along the lines of naturalness. Numbers
>also tend to bore me....main reason i am no longer a science major :).
>>
I dislike symmetry too. But I dislike too much asymmetry too :) . A piano à
queue (do you use the French expression? :) ) is exactly the kind of
disymmetrical object I like.

>>> Ok, me too. So you don't make jokes and you look the most boring person
>>in
>>> the world. That's what i feel.
>>
>I tend to make subtle jokes that people dont realize i've made them for a
>while. I remember rcently, it took my politics class to get the joke i
>said one day: "Sport Utility Vehicles are for people who cant admit they
>need a minivan". I thought i had ruined the joke and sure enough, about 15
>seconds later they all started to laugh at it. I actually enjoy making
>jokes here and there. My humor tends to be on the sarcastic side, though.
>>
Just like mine. And when I manage to make a joke (very rare, don't forget
my esprit d'escalier), people first stare at me (is it so strange that I
make jokes?) and then laugh, pretty much like you I think :) .

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