Y’all might wanna look up the definition of “savant” …
I know what savant means. So what? You’re going to have to spell out what you think the whooshing is, because so far your comment is the only one I don’t understand on this thread.
Adds a whole new level to “getting a little tail”.
I ask the Mods to change the title of this thread, and then close it.
I Pit myself: Confessions of an Obnoxious Autistic Hermit
Let’s step through the title word by word:
- Confessions. No, we won’t get into much detail which would inevitably become too personal. I make one specific confession:
My strange antipathy toward Bricker started with a decades-old slight for which he’s already apologized. That I can’t let go of that makes me the brainless cretin behaving like a tired old Pavlov’s Dog. I’ll assume he’d sign his name to this statement:
Karl Rove is a loathsome and despicable political operative. It was inappropriate for me to ignorantly state otherwise, especially in a thread with that topic as its title in which I’d not condescended to read OP.
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]signed, Bricker[/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
and I will replace my objection to his vote with
A Sincere Thank you, Mr. Bricker for voting for Hillary. Your vote is especially appreciated since it was hard for you to cast. If I somehow “knew” that a vote for Trump was best for America and the world, I still might not want to cast it. Kudos. Given your hatred — whatever its source — of the lovely Ms. Rodham, your swing-state vote is meritorious; indeed you’d be forgiven for clicking Abstain or whatever if you were in a non-swing state.
And I’m sure you are aware that my references to your “stupidity” are to your ideas, not your capacity for cognition. I think you’re probably among the twenty most intelligent Dopers who post on political matters, and perhaps the only one of the twenty who identifies with right-wing American politics. (It’s that right-wing alignment despite the intelligence which especially annoys me, not any alleged lack of raw intelligence.)[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]signed, Septimus[/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
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of an. This is best left alone.
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Obnoxious. I wonder if I have some variation of Tourette’s Syndrome. :smack: When I was young I had some sort of inferiority complex; at some point it metastasized into a superiority complex — I imagine they were two sides of the same coin all along. I’d apologize for this ugly and extremely rude behavior, except the apology would come off as insincere the first time that, like a tired old Pavlov’s Dog, I have another episode of Tourette’s-like obscenities.
There is a silver lining to being obnoxious on the 'Net. :o In middle age I was starting to utter nasty Tourettisms vocally, perhaps twice a year or more. Getting it out of my system here, I’m now hardly ever doing it in person. 
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Autistic. No, the only psychiatric diagnosis for me was anxiety neurosis. (I didn’t seek out diagnoses, this was at an SO’s insistence. IIRC that was shortly before DSM-III came out if it matters.) I did score 18 out of 18 on the Internet take-it-yourself Asperger’s Diagnosis.
I think of Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Men when I write “idiot savant,” but it’s quite hyperbolic in my case. I’ve never been an immediate threat to myself or others (though I might have eventually been institutionalized one way or the other if my singular skills didn’t provide financial independence). As for the ‘savant’ my memory is poor — I certainly can’t memorize a phone book — and I use paper just to multiply 2-digit numbers. -
Hermit. The designation isn’t particularly hyperbolic. :eek: Outside of immediate family, my most regular social contacts these days are certainly here at SDMB! Next would come the local 7-Eleven employees.
So close the thread please. If anyone wants to join me in Pitting my Confession, let them start their own thread.
I will start an Ask the guy who knows a little about rural Thailand thread in the Mundane Pointless forum.