User:Promsan

[edit] Why are you reading my user page? De atha thu a' leughadh mo duilleagan cleachdadair'?

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Sorry if it looks a mess - I'm still working on it! I am also on the:

• Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia
• Japanese Wikipedia
• Mandarin Wikipedia
• Thai Wikipedia

I have a long-standing fascination with language and communication going back to my earliest memories; this is related to a consistent and major difficulty I have:

[edit] I am frequently misunderstood.

I have two conflicting disabilities:

1. Asperger's syndrome

2. Asfedia

The first, though mild, still means that I have difficulty understanding meaning. This can be written meaning, or spoken meaning. Ironically, I am a modern language graduate: BA Japanese & East Asian Studies [Including Mandarin and Thai]. It also means I have a strong preference or need for precision in text. This includes what may appear to be grammatical and orthographical pedantry. I apologise if it is annoying; it makes me feel comfortable. People with Autistic-spectrum conditions tend to have a need for regularity and do not cope as well with change.

The second, means I have difficulty reading; though not dyslexia; it is ameliorated through using coloured filters. It means that despite the I make mistakes, and my text can appear somewhat "diffracted" for want of a better term. This is clearly at odds with my other disability. I find text exhausting, but despite whatever mistakes I make, I don't lost hope; I will not be disparaged.

Needless to say, I don't "talk" how I write; and I doubt any reader would associate the "written me" with the "spoken me".

It's not uncommon for people with disabilities such as mine to be regarded as: stupid; sociopaths; weird; trolls; ideal targets for bullying; etc... It's difficult to combat this without wearing a t-shirt with one's life history on it. Hence I write it here, in case I have been misunderstood.

I do fall out with people, because I lack: sympathy; empathy; awareness of ettiquette within my own society (though ironically, I am aware of the ettiquette of countries in the Far East that I studied). Of course I care about the negative effects this can have on my life, but it doesn't appear to affect me in the same way as it does others; I don't appear to "understand"; my wife says I'm a robot.

Interesting as I'm now a student in the Electronics dept. of a UK university. I also work for a large News corporation, and a small IT support firm. (I've also got a HNC in "Multimedia Technology" and a few poxy certificates in one or two languages). I haven't got any A-levels - I was expelled from half a dozen schools.

Why do things that involve typing with such barriers? Well, I couldn't stand old people as a teenager (grew up in a nursing home... don't ask!), yet I wiped blood, piss, and shit off the soulless torsos of demented wrinklies for over a year; I think I just like taking on my bete noirs.