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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 479361" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Is it that you do not understand the British word "sweets", Janet? Sweets means what you call candy. It is not the same as "sweet", which covers anything containing sugar. Do you not understand that I am talking about two occasions when he got sweets <strong>from someone other than me</strong>? </p><p>I said - and there is no confusion because it is simply the truth - that J gets like this after eating <strong>sweets</strong>. I responded saying it was not sugar because he eats that every day. In fact, the thread was helpful, clarifying for me that there is very possibly something in sweets or candy containing additives that is not helpful to him.</p><p>You have gone through all my posts picking out ones that seem to you not relevant or not clear. Hmmm.... I don't think many people's posts - dare I even suggest your own - would bear such scrutiny. </p><p>When one is uncertain about something - and there is so much uncertainty in all these behaviours and conditions, uncertainty of diagnosis, as we all know - it is a process of trying to reach clarity. Some things people say obviously fit, some things don't - that's just inevitable, and to be able to reject a possibility in the light of what someone says is in fact very helpful. I have done this a few times; you have extrapolated from that and now claim I do it <strong>all</strong> the time. That is simply not true...</p><p>There could be some form of cultural gap at play in the sense that European humour, particularly British, is perhaps more subtle, less easy to read, than some other forms of humour. So when I posted about dysgraphia, I was genuinely worried about that. My subsequent post, in response to someone saying that maybe I was worrying about nothing, was to agree in a kind of mock-serious way that I had indeed picked out another subject to get anxious about. It does not mean I literally did that. It is irony, humour, a kind of Woody Allenish self-deprecation (while obviously not as amusingly as him).</p><p>Several other people have assured me that they did not find what I said in this thread confusing or contradictory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 479361, member: 11227"] Is it that you do not understand the British word "sweets", Janet? Sweets means what you call candy. It is not the same as "sweet", which covers anything containing sugar. Do you not understand that I am talking about two occasions when he got sweets [B]from someone other than me[/B]? I said - and there is no confusion because it is simply the truth - that J gets like this after eating [B]sweets[/B]. I responded saying it was not sugar because he eats that every day. In fact, the thread was helpful, clarifying for me that there is very possibly something in sweets or candy containing additives that is not helpful to him. You have gone through all my posts picking out ones that seem to you not relevant or not clear. Hmmm.... I don't think many people's posts - dare I even suggest your own - would bear such scrutiny. When one is uncertain about something - and there is so much uncertainty in all these behaviours and conditions, uncertainty of diagnosis, as we all know - it is a process of trying to reach clarity. Some things people say obviously fit, some things don't - that's just inevitable, and to be able to reject a possibility in the light of what someone says is in fact very helpful. I have done this a few times; you have extrapolated from that and now claim I do it [B]all[/B] the time. That is simply not true... There could be some form of cultural gap at play in the sense that European humour, particularly British, is perhaps more subtle, less easy to read, than some other forms of humour. So when I posted about dysgraphia, I was genuinely worried about that. My subsequent post, in response to someone saying that maybe I was worrying about nothing, was to agree in a kind of mock-serious way that I had indeed picked out another subject to get anxious about. It does not mean I literally did that. It is irony, humour, a kind of Woody Allenish self-deprecation (while obviously not as amusingly as him). Several other people have assured me that they did not find what I said in this thread confusing or contradictory. [/QUOTE]
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