Let me say that I have not checked my email today and will not until
later today, perhaps this evening, but I have some things on my mind
from yesterday that I want to address, so I am using my send mail
function without opening my email program. First, as I was going through
my email yesterday I was coming across message after message informing
me that a post needed approval before it could be posted and the reason
was that it was coming from someone who was not subscribed to the list.
All of them originated with Miriam. I, of course, immediately approved
them. This leads me to think that if Miriam is not receiving list
messages it might be just because she has somehow come unsubscribed and
she should check on that and resubscribe if necessary. Despite being
repeatedly told that I am technical minded I do not think that I am in
the least, so this is largely speculation on my part and is just a
suggestion of something that could be looked into. I hope that by making
this suggestion that I am not accused of being condescending. And that
leads me to what was on my mind that caused me to write this email.
Again I have been accused of having some kind of arrogant and
condescending tone to my messages. I maintain that if anyone thinks that
then you are reading in things that are simply not there. When I have
something to say I just say it. I do not give a thought to adding a
tone. The reason I do not give a thought to adding a tone is that I have
no idea how to do it even if I wanted to and no matter how much I might
want to add a tone. I am supposing that by tone any of you who think I
have a tone must mean something like innuendo again. As I have said, an
innuendo is to me an Italian suppository. For the most part they go
completely over my head and not only do I not understand the innuendo, I
usually do not even know that one has been made. This is one reason that
I suspect that I may have some level of Asperger's syndrome, but whether
I have Asperger's or not I am still literal minded. I say what I mean
and I mean what I say. There are no hidden meanings. If you want to
understand me then you will do that best by just considering what I have
actually said without trying to read hidden meanings into it. If you do
think you are detecting hidden meanings then that is coming entirely
from your own mind. In other words, you are imagining it. When I offer
advice for a problem, whether it is something about using a computer or
some other aspect of life, it is because I suspect or see that the
person I am offering it to is missing something. It could be a missing
piece of knowledge or it might be a failure to think of all the options
that might be available. My advice might be wrong or it might be right,
but what it is not is an attempt to belittle or condescend to anyone.
And I am left baffled and perplexed when I am accused of that. Remember!
I! do! not! insert! innuendos! or! other! hidden! meanings! I am too
literal minded to know how to do that! And it is extremely frustrating
to me when I am trying to be helpful or to impart some kind of knowledge
that I am accused of such an attitude when it is about the furthest
thing from my mind that anything can be.
