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    I don't know where to start with this, because its effects are so pervasive. For example, I love languages, and although I can read, write and speak a language well, I struggle immensely with listening and understanding it. So, for one French mock GCSE exam when I was a kid, I literally got A+ for a writing test, and an E for the listening one.

     

    I find it very hard to follow oral directions, particularly spatial directions, because I don't have much of a sense of direction, anyway. In a shop, though, I can tend to appear 'not with it' in situations where the assistant is directing me how to order something, or some other such process. All's well if things are written down, or I can write it down. Otherwise I annoy people with my slowness.

     

    Mum used to get frustrated with me when she told me to do such and such, because I wouldn't respond immediately, but I was still processing the message! She still gets miffed when she asks me something, because in the time it takes me to process the question, she's already saying, 'answer me!'. I think the problem there is that my processing slows further if I feel pressured.

     

    Even if my children start crying because they've hurt themselves, there is a delay between hearing and responding. I don't think it's a delay which will hurt them psychologically through my non-response, but it does illustrate the point.

     

    I'll leave it there, but I bet I'll find other things to add as the day progresses.

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    I always found it hard to see the point of intermediary steps at school. I found it hard to be bothered about doing some homework if I didn't see the direct relevance of it. I'm like it now. I've just completed a degree with the OU, and for the 16 or so hours weekly that are supposed to be devoted to it, I would tend to do between 2 and 8, because I generally have a very clear vision of what actually needs to be done with academic stuff, and leave the rest. In some ways this could be seen as lazy, but maybe it's efficient :) . I'm inclined to do everything at the very last minute, which is something I've overcome to some extent in adulthood.

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    My husband and I prepped a lot for bird flu (before swine flu - it would have been about five or six years ago. I still wonder if bird flu is yet to hit). We filled the larder we had at the time with cans, and as we used them for a few months we always restocked to maintain the same number of cans. We also stocked up on anti-bac wipes, various flu-specific medicines and huge bottles of water. We installed an outside letter box, so that the post wouldn't bring infection into the house. I'm fairly sure there's some other stuff we did, too but I can't remember right now. But my husband took the whole thing very seriously.

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    This is another early memory and today my mum said it had to have been before I was 18 months old. Mum cycled to my granny and grandad's house and I rode on the seat at the back. It was a high-backed red seat with a sort of embossed pattern on it, and it had armrests. We arrived at granny's and I remember granny giving me raw cabbage to play with in the kitchen, and I remember the open fire in the living room. Mum and I stayed in the room right at the top via what seemed like an unending amount of stairs. When we were settled, granny came in and said, "Goodnight, God bless".

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    By the same token, then, is there not some way you could cause a permanent diversion in the traffic which could potentially be relatively innocent? It would probably involve an explosion of some kind, and the creation of craters. Are there two substances which you could be carrying around innocently, but which, when mixed together cause an extreme reaction? Then you'd need a way to 'accidentally' hurl them towards the road. Actually, I'm in danger of getting the thread closed if I carry on with this, aren't I? Sleep would be more constructive.

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    I believe there was also some experimentation into that regards sirens on emergency vehicles in that those to the side of the siren don't need to now of the urgency only those in front. It was also we were told at one time some emergency vehicles had such a system in place where I can attest, it didn't work as at night emergency vehicles that used to scream past my house the sirens always woke us up

     

    That would have been so cool if it had worked, but how do you restrict sound through unrestricted space?

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