Re: Re: OT - apparently I'm famous...or infamous...

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In a message dated 2/25/02 8:58:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,

jvandekerk@... writes:

> Count me in for shorts during cold weather

Me too, Me too!!

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Don't you guys think this is weird????? I wonder if

we should do a poll? Sensory do you think?

Hmmmm.......

Tamara

--- " Janae E. van De Kerk " wrote:

> Count me in for shorts during cold weather. I'd go

> to work wearing shorts and t-shirt (I work outside,

> lots of walking, parttime in the mornings) and

> people would look at me as if I'm crazy. They'd

> always ask if I was cold. My response is always,

> " It's (the temp) above freezing (ok, so it's under

> 40 F) and I got shoes on. " I hate wearing shoes

> also.

>

> Janae

> , 9, ADD

> Jake, 6, autism

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Well, I am the opposite of all of you..I am always

cold..unless it's around 110..then I'm warm. ,

though, is always lolling around the house in a

bathing suit, shorts, tank tops..no matter how cold it

is..and she never wants to wear a coat!

Mimi

--- tamara laskowski wrote:

> Don't you guys think this is weird????? I wonder if

> we should do a poll? Sensory do you think?

> Hmmmm.......

> Tamara

>

> --- " Janae E. van De Kerk "

> wrote:

> > Count me in for shorts during cold weather. I'd

> go

> > to work wearing shorts and t-shirt (I work

> outside,

> > lots of walking, parttime in the mornings) and

> > people would look at me as if I'm crazy. They'd

> > always ask if I was cold. My response is always,

> > " It's (the temp) above freezing (ok, so it's under

> > 40 F) and I got shoes on. " I hate wearing shoes

> > also.

> >

> > Janae

> > , 9, ADD

> > Jake, 6, autism

> >

> >

> > [Non-text portions of this message have been

> > removed]

> >

> >

>

>

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> Don't you guys think this is weird????? I wonder if

> we should do a poll? Sensory do you think?

> Hmmmm.......

> Tamara

I'm amazed, too! And like everyone who responded, I, too, could live my life

without shoes. I have the most calloused feet in creation because I don't wear

shoes unless the snow is drifting around my ankles. On the FlyLady list, she

insists that you wear shoes every day in your house -- I CAN'T do it.

I wear the same thing every day at home -- my big comfy pajama bottoms and one

of three different comfy tops. I ONLY change to leave the house, and soon as I

get home I change back. I also eschew undergarments (!). Can't stand them;

they're too constricting. I will also don these to leave the house, and take em

off as soon as I get home.

According to my mom, I have always been like this. When I was little, as soon

as I'd get home from school I'd strip naked and run around.

I think this is DEFINITELY a sensory thing!

And I don't know if this is related, but every time I dress up to go out

somewhere nice, I invariably drop food all over myself and my nice,

constricting, uncomfortable clothing.

Hmmmm.

Jacquie

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> I'm amazed, too! And like everyone who responded, I, too, could live my life

without shoes. I have the most calloused feet in creation because I don't wear

shoes unless the snow is drifting around my ankles. On the FlyLady list, she

insists that you wear shoes every day in your house -- I CAN'T do it. <

i hear ya! i took a look a look at her site and i saw that and i thought YEAH

RIGHT!!!

love gina, another shoeless wonder

Autism is not the end of the World. . . . just the beginning of a new one. -

Sally Meyer

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> According to my mom, I have always been like this. When I was little, as

soon as I'd get home from school I'd strip naked and run around.

Hi, Madison!

So relieved you grew up to be such a well-adjusted, high functioning adult!

I barely recognized you, sweet child! ;o)

Whew!

Grace

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> Hi, Madison!

> So relieved you grew up to be such a well-adjusted, high functioning adult!

> I barely recognized you, sweet child! ;o)

>

> Whew!

>

> Grace

No problem, mom!

Don't forget, I:

-read precociously early (hyperlexia)

-stripped naked ALWAYS

-kicked strangers out of terror

-became physically violent when they skipped me a grade and put me into an

unfamiliar classroom

- " made friends " by grabbing other children by the hair and telling them they

were going to be my friend

-was incredibly hyper, scaling the filing cabinets of the doctor's office at

3yrs of age and grabbing the doctor's hair from above while he sat there and

told my mom I was normal

-had to be drugged to sleep every night for three years

-forced my mother to make meals just for me for the first 15 years of my life,

because my diet was so limited.

Sound like anyone you know?

The more I learn about my childhood, and the more I learn about how other people

(normal people) were, the more I know I'm NOT NT.

Jacquie

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> - " made friends " by grabbing other children by the hair and telling them

they were going to be my friend

LMAO!!!! ROTFL!!!!

> Sound like anyone you know?

>

Yep. But I think Madison is higher-functioning. She flirts and doesn't pull

hair to make friends LOL. And she likes most strangers. LOL (I'm joking)

> The more I learn about my childhood, and the more I learn about how other

people (normal people) were, the more I know I'm NOT NT.

>

The more I hear about it - the more I think will be a-ok.

Just fine.

Grace

> Jacquie

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> Sound like anyone you know?

>

Um, yes.

My mother made me special meals, by the way, because I ate so little and I

was so skinny that she was afraid people would think she was starving me.

But otherwise you do sound more like Enrique and Putter.

Salli

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> Sound like anyone you know?

>

Um, yes.

My mother made me special meals, by the way, because I ate so little and I

was so skinny that she was afraid people would think she was starving me.

But otherwise you do sound more like Enrique and Putter.

Salli