Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "Dave's Garage"
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@Darxide23 Yeah, I can see that, but reading up on all that is considered for Autism, there is a lot to it and they all share some of the traits, that is especially true for the brain and how it has more neurons than most neurotypicals tend to have.
That said, very high functioning, and I mean, what would be considered borderline Asperger types may not need to mask nearly as much in daily life as others on the spectrum, thus may not get diagnosed as readily, which was more likely for older folk now in their 40's and up, but still struggle mightily in many ways to this day, which can affect how we get/keep work for starters.
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@GaisaSanktejo I think that USED to be the case for the large part. Just don't go for the less expensive SSD drives, like the 120GB models, go with a 500GB version (or larger), they can be had for $50-ish bucks on sale from some good, name brand models, however, the Samsung EVO series will be a bit more but still a reasonable $70 for the same capacity on sale. That's about what I paid for the $500GB EVO 870 SSD that's in my old Dell Optiplex 9020.
Longevity is I think improved as well and MOST spinners will last you on average, 3-5 years. I had a Western Digital 500GB spinner that began dropping sectors at 10 years and it was corrupting the OS and it got to where I could not go a proper boot partition as disc part was corrupted.
I bring this up as the Patriot Burst 120GB SSD that came with the PC (picked up refurbished with Windows 10 Pro) got to 70% and began to slow the PC down to the point that it was unusable. Most drives now aren't as bad, with new features to reduce the slow downs for SSD's, but Spinners will not make up the access speeds of a good SSD (internal, direct SATA or MVME, with MVME being faster still).
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Glad of this as I'm another autistic adult, diagnosed late. Got my assessment back in Sept through the Dept of vocational Rehab and a psychologist who specializes in assessing adults. My best buddy and my oldest sister both suspected I might be about 18 years ago and finally last year, began to suspect I may well be after some research.
It's not helped that I also am a congenital Rubella baby (CRS) as well, and I have a total sight loss in my right eye, total hearing loss in my right ear, partial hearing loss in my left, and was suspected to being "retarded" back in the 60's. Yes, my mother contracted Rubella during the 4th week of the pregnancy (so first trimester) and to add to that, I have heart issues. Add to that I have a rule out for ADHD and was confirmed to have intellectual disability (formerly retardation).
I'm now working on picking up the pieces that began with Covid, but in some ways, began in 2017 when the job I'd had for 10 years ran its course through no fault of my own. 3rd party contractor for Ricoh, site I was at was closing due to not renewing contract to decide to go alone again, only to consolidate at another office in another state and was not picked up there, nor at another site within Ricoh. PT work at a local 2 year college, with the hope it'll go FT/perm, FT yes, but still temporary, then Covid hit, job ends in June of '20, with the thought I would get back on that August, but that never happened, found another PT/temp job at the same school, and when it ended, that was that.
So I have one long time friend that I've had for 50 years, and he was one that suspected I might be autistic. I still don't know enough about myself to know what I want to do "when I grow up", have anxiety etc.
On top of all that, am gay and have never had a long term partner. Was diagnosed ASD, level 1 (high functioning). Hearing from others is good as I learn about myself and am well aware that many autistic folks likely have stereotypes about neurotypicals and I also see them often not meeting us halfway, even if we try to meet them halfway.
Yes, been bullied, but also have had to be scrappy to defend myself when it comes to it, so I feel that if a woman is going to be a bully, she should get what's coming, even if a good slug to the face is what ends up happening, she deserves it as much as the guy who does the same thing. I've had to slug one classmate who tried to bully me once in band back in 6th grade, he ran off crying. Band teacher new saw it, nor realized it all had taken place.
Anyway, this is all good and informative, even to a "newly" autistic man.
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I know this is 3 months back, but I am hoping to get diagnosed this year, at 57. There are plenty that got diagnosed even older than that, but it does help out more than you may realize, for those of us still in our working years, it can help us to make it to retirement, even if just by the skin of our teeth, but in the end, you will know for certain why you do what you do, and why you've struggled your whole life, and can better survive for the long haul, and often just knowing helps too. Also, I have CRS, congenital Rubella Syndrome, which stems from having had Prenatal Rubella (German Measles) during the epidemic of 1964-65 while in Utero, which becomes CRS once born. I didn't know the second part until a few weeks ago when a sister discovered it online and brought it to my attention and our other sister. CRS does come with comorbidities, and one of them is Autism, or to put it more succinctly, it raises the likelihood of having Autism too, and while some things may improve over time, some get worse as one ages, like developing Diabetes type 2, heart disease, among them.
One aspect of CRS is that my body may age faster than my biological age and many of us may die younger than we'd otherwise might due to the comorbidities being likely as some get worse, some better over time. There was a long term study of a bunch of Australians that were born during the epidemic of 1940-41, and several over time have died due to heart failure, diabetes and other factors, still others are still living, now in their early 80's. I don't think we are quite there yet with Autism, but we do know many die young due to suicide as it's often due to the struggles they incur during their lifetimes and the sometimes frequent meltdowns can cause depression and that can cause some to take their own lives.
Anyway, hope this helps you to decide to get diagnosed, especially if you suspect you are on the spectrum.
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Agree with Dave, I got my assessment this past fall and it did confirm what was suspected as far back as 18 years ago, I'm diagnosed as ASD level 1 (formerly Asperger's) as it's been deprecated since the DSM-V, but also since then, the ICD-11. That said, I got mine through the state and its dept of vocational rehab and they paid for a 4 hour assessment with someone that can assess adults, which is critical as we adults have been masking for a long time but unlike children, can respond to questions and such, which in some ways, makes it easier, but in others more difficult.
I also have an intellectual disability which was spotted back in the 60's at 3 or so but back then, it was known as "retarded". Today I do not function to the same level as my same age peers. I was assessed at 57 and am now trying to work through all the issues and financial issues and the fallout of Covid, no job etc.
Just getting that assessment will help you in ways you may not know at this time and in the end, it may make your life easier to navigate. At the very least, it'll answer some questions you may have.
Good luck!
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@Dragonfire511 If I recall, didn't loose much as I had most of the files saved to the diskettes, but I think some minor things like a few photos from the My Photos folder may have been lost, but that's about it. I think I lost more when I left behind the diskettes after I moved to a brand new PC in 2009 that didn't have a diskette, and by then, I was barely using the one in the old PC.
The PC ended up being replaced, actually as by then, I had an Asus A7V motherboard with an Athlon 800 CPU and 512MB of ram, which was the schniz in 2001 when I bought them gently used from a friend and proceeded to build a new PC around it and come to think about it, the drive I bought to replace the Deskstar was a WD Caviar Blue (refurbed 17.2GB) to put in the AST and it was read by Windows 95 at 17MB, so when I replaced the AST with the built unit, I eventually had to move up to Win 98 to see the disc's full capacity.
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@aminorityofone I did similar too, switched to Verizon 5G wireless internet (using a 5G gateway as modem), it has WiFi capability but the ability to turn it off and has a pass through for the LAN so a separate router can be used, in my case, a wireless router from TP Link that gets the direct connection from the gateway, my desktop gets a wired connection, phone, only other wireless device for now takes up WiFi.
The TP Link router replaces the now 5+ year old netgear router that lost the desktop IP address and I could not get it to reconnect/reestablish that primary IP address so hence the replacement router.
The new router is better than the old one as one, its coverage is wider so now the back of the house gets a stronger signal (I live in a small house) and has NUMUU (?) so it does not bog down as much when more wireless devices are in use, of which the old router did not have. Works great and I get up wards of 2Gbps+ speeds down, upwards of 20Mbps up fairly consistent now with some upgrades to the network in my neighborhood.
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Good suggestions and I've done many of them, including blowing out the 'puter every so often when I think about it.
The last was back in January and that's when it all went wrong, I had temporarily removed the HD cage to my Dell Optiplex to ensure the entire inside was free of dust as much as possible and when I got it all back together and reconnected back up, hit the power button and BSOD, yup. No matter how I tried, BSOD and a major issue notification was displayed. SO, grabbed my old SSD (a lowly 120GB Patriot Burst SSD) and connected it to the spare drive's SATA connector and power and used Macrium Reflect to do either a clone or an image, image I think and it worked, or so it seemed, nope, nada, zilch. BSOD, same message displayed. SO, I then moved the Patriot to the main SATA (0) to act as boot, same thing, it was corrupted so the clone failed and took with it, the image that was on the old drive (it was used to clone the new Samsung SSD and did so successfully I might add) last summer even. SO,had to get a fresh install via USB retail and got myself back up and running. It's been fine since then.
I've done defrag many times in the past, I've even modified the swap file size a few times, cleaned out the drives, the puter, and added memory (in the current box, it went from the 8G it came with to 16GB), cleaned out the cache, and a time or two, had to take out crap in the form of bloart ware if possible, try to figure out why the damn HD is overly active at times, and upped the drive size when the Patriot to 70% and started slowing the puter way down to the point it was barely usable. That's when I bought a new Samsung EVO 870 SSD with 500GB capacity for $70-ish bucks to replace Patriot with. Mind you, this Dell is 8 years old now but it soldiers on with an equally as old, nearly discrete NVIDIA graphics card that I put in it as I was NOT going to use the built in Intel graphics and the Display Ports.
Another potential speed increase is to move away from the built in graphics card, either on the board or CPU for a discrete one as back in the day when 286's, 386's and 486's minus the DX math compressor really benefited from a graphics accelerator card (when they were still called that many moons ago).
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First off, didn't even notice the image was soft in any way, though I did detect at least once the focus shift, like when you leaned back for a moment. Then again, I was watching your lips (yes, I read them) and yes, autistic, and have CRS with hearing deficits and was taught during speech therapy in the late 60's how to read lips.
I don't rock, but do other aspects of stimming though.
I only got into DSL in 2001 when still with US West (before they got bought out by Centrylink several years later), now I run 5G via Verizon Wireless. 50Mbs down, around 20Mbs up. fine for my needs, though they do promise up to 2G down and I do reach somewhere near that some of the time.
BTW, your "harsh" edits are way better than most as it's not an actual jump cut.
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Interesting story. I ran into an issue with an install of Windows 7 two years ago where I had to upgrade from Vista that had just gone off support in 2018 and was running an older version of Firefox and some sites like MSN's Outlook no longer worked right so through the help of a friend, I found an image of Win 7 to install. It all appeared fine, I installed and registered it, all was fine for several months until the end of 2018, then the original 10 YO HD on my old Dell began to fail and I don't recall all that happened, but ultimately, I had to reimage the drive from the same source, only that source now no longer worked and became fishy and what I had was apparently belong slowly shut down by MS as it discovered it was not a legit install. Apparently, I may have downloaded what was an OEM image of 7, not a retail version, even had the key and all. Anyway, by this point, I was forced to reinstall (or try anyway) my old Vista OS but the drive failing, was losing sectors left and right and I tried to get a fresh drive, only to not being able to install a boot partition as disk part was corrupt - so ended up with a refurbished Dell Optiplex with Windows 10 Pro, an OEM image with product key sold to used PC retailers and the like other than upping the memory from 8 to 16G, I had to a week ago replace the 120G SSD that this machine came fitted with for a 500G version and I cloned the drive, all partitions and so far, so good. I still need to extend the C partition as Macrium would not let me extend the partition since I was going to a larger drive for some reason.
So at least Windows 7, on they can get you if you try to cheat with the OS. Oh, MS did the same with my OEM copy of Office 2007 that I bought with the old Dell so now use Libra Office instead.
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