\nAs you might have noticed, I haven’t been updating my journal recently.
\nWell, I’ve fallen off the wagon again. That’s right — I’m back to playing
\ncomputer games.\n<\/p>\n
\nI had been so<\/em> good for months — no TV, hardly any computer games (well, \nHonestly, it’s a good thing that I’m buried in this computer game, because I was really \nM’ris<\/a> But look — if Pat, Nancy, and Mike can quit and then come back to EQ, surely I<\/em> am allowed my small vices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nan occasional round of Titan<\/a>).
\nBut last week
\n3do<\/a> released Heroes of Might and Magic IV<\/a>. Let’s just say I haven’t been getting
\nmuch sleep this last week. I’m totally geeking out. But look — if
\nPat<\/a>, Nancy<\/a>,
\nand Mike<\/a> can quit and then come back to
\nEQ<\/a>, surely
\nI<\/em> am allowed my small vices? Remember kids:
\nEQ kills<\/a>…\n<\/p>\n
\nstarting to worry about my geek credentials. It started when Rachel called me a “jock”
\nback in Santa Barbara (indeed!<\/em>) Then my physics and mathematical knowledge
\nstarted fading away. And just the other day I stumbled across the old Wired Magazine
\narticle about the relationship between
\nAsperger’s Syndrome and mathematical aptitude<\/a>.
\nThe article included a
\ntest to see if you might have
\nAsperger’s<\/a>. Yes, I know, the test has about as much validity as an
\n“How hard do you crush?<\/a>” test in
\nSeventeen magazine<\/a>
\n(my score: “It’s Just…A Little Crush…”). But I took the stupid Wired test anyway.
\nI scored a 16. I’m perfectly “neurotypical”. What a disappointment.\n<\/p>\n
\ntook the test and got a 19. Like me, she answered with extremes — she likes math,
\nlikes focusing on problems, but she also<\/em> likes people and social chit-chat.
\nI suggested that maybe we were some kind of hybrid advanced super-nerds. Math
\nskills and<\/em> social skills. Like Blade!
\n“All
\nof the nerds’ advantages, none of their weaknesses<\/a>.” M’ris demurred, however,
\nsaying that after all, she had 20\/200 vision. And I have my computer game thing, of course.
\nAh well, another perfectly good theory spoiled by the facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"