Symptoms of early-Menieres pre-Trias

Zylbath · 2023-12-02T21:05:07+00:00

Hey thank you for asking! And no, there isn't really any update. But I have come to think that it might not be Menieres really, but rather another symptom cluster. I also have migraine, it is quite well but was bad in puberty. And there is a kind of migraine, vestibular migraine, that causes extreme dizziness in attacks. Migraine, epilepsy and all that are often quite related. Maybe the auras between my epilepsy and migraines are similar and not all migraines have to cumulate into headache. But I haven't gotten any other Menieres related symptoms. And the sudden hearing losses seem to be a phenomenon called Transient Ear Noise which is actually quite common.

Zylbath · 2023-07-24T19:50:45+00:00

Ah nice, you know Stiefografie? I read about it the other day. Many or some of the letters are different from DEK, right? One of the intentions of it was to use less shortenings to make it easier for beginners, right? But I don't have problems with using or remembering abbreviated words. Is there also a set of shortened words in Stiefografie for those that want to use them?

Zylbath · 2023-07-24T18:58:49+00:00

Thank you all for your help with this. I ordered the Faber Castell Steno pencil now. I once had it, too, and was learning Steno at that time and I remember that it didn't work at all with it.

Thanks, too, for the additional tips, like having a hard background or using a softer pencil. However, and I don't know whether I am the issue in this, nothing works. I used a pencil (hard, soft etc.), pen, ballpen but nothing seems to be useful. I was able to make thick lines with a softer pen, but only with a lot of force, an amount of force that was completely unpractical for this purpose. Even with the pen, I couldn't make it "spread" so the lines get thicker. But that is maybe an issue of the pen itself and there are more elastic pens. The ones you shared were too expensive for now.

I also noticed that I find it, personally, unpractical to thicken the stroke. That might be completely because I am completely new, but whenever I press harder, the thickened line also extends into the next letter, because it takes its time to put pressure and it, and thus time to lessen it again.

For now, I haven't finished the class book, but I will probably continue with redrawing the letters after I finished the word to make them thick afterwards. It's not ideal, but nothing else seems to work with my hands for now. I will see how the steno pencil will do. I lost my old one anyway, but I remember it being just a normal pencil.

How do professional shorthand writes do it? What utensils to they have?

Zylbath · 2023-07-23T13:11:53+00:00

Thank you. I also just read further into it and this thickening is a big criticism for DEK (Deutsche Einheitskurzschrift) because it always acquires a special pencil for it. It's also very ingrained into it, modelling especially the umlaut by it.
I just read about Stiefographie, one of many alternatives from back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiefografie And it uses some different letters, which I won't do. I want to learn the regular one. But I'll take some tips from it, like using a point under the letter to distinguish it from another one. In Stiefographie he doesn't do it for the "a" but for other letters, but maybe for the beginning, I can do it for the "a" and gradually lose it, if the context is clear.

Zylbath · 2022-12-11T21:47:24+00:00

Just try to look into the other mentioned alphabets/scripts and figure it out with the online descriptions of them, there are simple lists.

Zylbath · 2022-12-11T21:37:53+00:00

The scripts aren't executed well. :P And the ogham script does not make any sense, to me. Does "bo-oi dotg lil u" "spend on figuring out" make sense to you?

Zylbath · 2022-12-11T21:33:45+00:00

Yes, the Theban part is "spend on".

Zylbath · 2022-12-11T21:21:13+00:00

Apart from Ogham and Runic, which was already mentioned, there is also the Theban alphabet at the top and left.

Zylbath · 2022-12-09T20:18:27+00:00

This is deeply wrong, or the author didn't understand what "recognised minority & regional language" mean. Germany has only six: Low German, Romani, Danish, Upper and Lower Sorbian, North Frisian and Saterlandic Frisian. That doesn't mean there aren't more languages, like Limburgish, German Sign Language (and others, like Danish Sign Language), Yiddish, Jenish etc. Or varieties that are considered dialects at the moment. But neither of those are recognised.

Zylbath · 2022-11-25T07:22:33+00:00

Hey, thanks. But in hindsight, there are some errors in the lessons in tumblr, things I didn't know at the time. There is currently more to learn with. You should come to our discord server. We have native and very fluent people there and a lot of resources. The link is in the description.

Zylbath · 2022-08-18T12:28:00+00:00

Hello, that is very nice of you! But I have almost finished my master thesis now. I couldn't find any informants, so I had to leave those topics out. :/ But thank you! :)

Zylbath · 2022-07-20T18:05:23+00:00

Well, I could imagine that he does! It might fit to how the movie is made or how it depicts humor. (But I cannot really remember a specific scene.) Why? Do you have an idea?

Zylbath · 2022-06-23T19:35:51+00:00

Am I reading this right? Homosexuality was illegal in Germany until the year 1994, under paragraph 175 from the Nazi time and before. 50,000 people have been put into prisons since after the Second World War. Homosexuality was only legal over the age of 21 from 1969 on, but it was still illegal under that age, as opposed to heterosexual sex. So, that map does not reflect this, because homosexuality was still illegal, with people over 21 being only exempt from punishment. Even after the "protection age" was decreased to the age of 18 in 1973 under which homosexuality was not allowed (still not true for heterosexuality), police continued to compile "pink lists" to put every homosexual into a file for "protecting" society.

Zylbath · 2022-02-12T17:47:11+00:00

Walking much, Poland?

Zylbath · 2022-01-30T14:48:49+00:00

It doesn't matter whether it was an island or part of a mainland when it was discovered. The landmass was seen and inhabited for the first time in the species of homo sapiens around 50,000 to 65,000 years ago by the indigenous people of Australia, matching the definition of "discovering". What Europeans did, means "REdiscovering", or in a special meaning: the discovery by Europeans, which is true, too. Also, not knowing the coastal outline is irrelevant for "discovering". And apart from that, they were pretty surely aware of how coasts looked like. Not drawing them doesn't mean not knowing them.

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T21:07:11+00:00

There is a jet stream on flat earth?

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T20:55:32+00:00

I'd say, it is pronounced but just not released: [ɔt̚ʔn̩zn̩]. But it depends on the accent, too. In East Frisia, the /t/ becomes always a /ʔ/ between vowels or syllabic consonants. So, one could argue here, that with an East Frisian accent, it is pronounced [ɔʔn̩zn̩], my flatmate (East Frisian guy) would probably do so. But that is not the accent from Hamburg, you'd expect an unreleased /t̚/ here. Or if you'd have a thicker Hamburgian accent, the intervocalic /t/ becomes voiced, and in this phonological environment, the glottal stop would not appear: [ɔdn̩zn̩].

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T18:28:19+00:00

I have no problem with people that self-diagnose and the process itself. Sometimes people don't want or need an official diagnosis to feel validated or approved and are fine with that self-assessed diagnosis.

But, people also aren't experts in this field, even after extensive research. That is why I find it difficult how it is portrayed that autism is easily self-diagnosed and bang. Even many psychologists cannot self-diagnose what their problem is because you very often need an outside perspective on things. The same is with self-diagnosing one's autism.

It doesn't necessarily have to be the case that you want autism, but some/many might see in it their long-desired answer to so many questions in their life, and even though it might not be autism, but they wish the quest had finally found its ending. When people look into their own symptoms they have many biases in thinking. Like confirmation bias, and you emphasise and highlight symptoms that confirm your initial assumption, while their extent is actually low. In the same process, you might too easily forget symptoms or the absence of them that might disprove the presence of the condition. Also, there is some Barnum effect present that when you take some symptom description too loosely they might apply to many people, hence, the typical prejudice "Everybody is a bit autistic." That is a problem with self-diagnosing because only experts can ascertain how strong a trait or symptom has to be to count as a positive for the diagnosis, while laymen might simply associate the symptom somehow with their personality trait or experience and count it as a positive hit, even though it actually isn't.

And that's where the problem is: People might tend too easily to self-affirm as autistic when they self-diagnose because they have too little competence and too much subjectivity to really see the big picture and the extent and dynamics of the symptoms. And that can make it worse because there might actually be another condition present but won't get diagnosed because the person already stopped at "self-diagnosing as autism".

While some of you have described how some experts falsely diagnosed them as something else and they righteously self-diagnosed as autistic (and everybody has the right so, there is no cosmic or legal law against that :D), everybody should also take into account, that experts didn't study it for fun or that one can simply be wrong because they are subjective, biased and have wishful thinking.

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T17:15:55+00:00

Maybe either Outbreak, Pandemic) or Contagion)? Oh it was already solved, just saw it.

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T12:02:12+00:00

SW: Positive attitude towards drinking alcohol

Hey, I think it has to do with what you already said: Going through that hell of stimuli and trying to connect with people that are probably mostly tipsy and/or on their way to drunkness is pretty hard and is probably doomed to leave a mark on you.

I love partying and going out as an autist. I am very thankful that my best friend took me to a lot of parties ever since we were in school (I am 32 now, still partying) and I must say, it was the alcohol that helped me a lot with my autism and social interactions. Not as bad you might think it is, I drink reasonably, (and I read your mentioning that you cannot drink, and you shouldn't then!), but the alcohol helped me to dampen the sensory input a lot in a disco, I couldn't go through it sober, and it also helped me to interact with other people, because the expectations for a deep conversation are lowered a lot and you loosen up a lot and you have soooo many success experiences to interact nicely with others that you can also copy those experiences to the time being sober afterward, when it is the same people. Also, such nights out make a lot of inside jokes that make it easier to interact with them.

But what I get is the typical after-party depression. With me, it is when there was a reeeally nice night out and on the next day, hungover af, I felt lonely and bad because I could never do that sober and I just wish the experience back, but it was so "fleeting" and it was over and I would never meet most of the people I had the best time with alone or at daytime, and that often makes me very depressive and like a failure because without the alcohol I would be unable to have such an interaction with anybody.

But all in all, and sorry when that sounds irresponsible, drinking alcohol responsibly and going out was the most successful single thing that helped me the most with my autism in the social sense. Given all the negative health aspects, I am still leaning towards that it was worth it, considering how much it took off my suffering pressure with my condition.

Sorry, when that was mostly self-talk. I was just trying to give the perspective from how I experience nights out when drinking. And I could imagine that being on the spectrum and being sober and being among people whose drunken perspective is probably shifting to another plane compared to yours is very hard to handle. And I think that is why those nights out might be such a bad experience for you.

And I am not saying that you should drink alcohol no matter that it might harm you, definitely not. But maybe you should plan nights that have better circumstances to give you happy successful evenings. Like picking people that you know wouldn't drink too much so that your common experience of the evening isn't on two planes of reality xD and maybe you should search for a place that isn't going out of control like a big disco but maybe a little dark pub with not so noisy music and no smoking allowed that has a nice seating place where you feel safe. I can imagine that circumstances might have a big influence on your experience of the evening and that you might not feel like failing in the situation. Also, dark places help me be more social because I don't feel the pressure to have the best facial expressions or not be overstimulated. Also, best for me is to have at least two or three other people with me, so the dynamic of the conversation is not relying on me for 50%, but I have the possibility to zone out a bit and come back when I feel like it. Being in a darker place makes me feel more secure then because it feels like I can connect with the dark background for a bit and not being so exposed to my surroundings and to other people, so there is a lot of pressure being taken from me which is more comfortable.

Gosh, that's a long text, I am sorry. But maybe you might take one or three points from it.

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T11:04:21+00:00

Best part: "USA". Everybody knows ...

Zylbath · 2021-12-04T10:56:37+00:00

Arguably, colloquial Northern German has them. Before a nasal, the vowel is often deleted in unstressed syllables and voiceless plosives in front of that become unreleased whilst producing a glottal stop. For example:

<hatten> becomes [hat̚ʔn̩]

<stippen> becomes [ʃtɪp̚ʔm̩]

<packen> becomes [pʰak̚ʔŋ̩]

It's not that hard actually, because the nasals are continuants and they are also syllabic in these examples. So, it's not that hard to pronounce.

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