Damn..talking of voices, your making me think of laura, another girl from my first secondary school. Looks like she hasn't aged a year, lucky so and so, her voice hasn't changed either, used to be dead high pitched in a fast-paced delivered almost squeaky kind of way, I know it doesn't SOUND from that like she would be one of the girls in the place, one of two, the other being kate, that I was absolutely nuts for. I still am about laura, have seen her since leaving the place, although haven't in too long and want badly to get back in touch, because I find myself always thinking of her. Not usual for me to miss someone, but laura, I do, I really do.
She's still tiny petite and thin enough I could easily wrap one arm around three, perhaps four of her. Still looks like she would be going back to school the next day, as little as I miss the place for the most part, but a few years older than me. Not many, but damn, she really has kept her looks. I've been dying to ask her out for quite some time. I'd love to do a genetic analysis on a few of her cells as well, if I could gain access to cell lines from more kanner's autie males and females and compare those who age normally, with those who do so much, much less, as fully expressed as the trait goes because if one could bottle the way laura ages, jesus, she and I would be rolling in it. What woman wouldn't want to be able to look 10 at 12. 12 at 14-15. 15-16 at 19-early 20s and then just...shit, thinking about it shes probably about 33-34 now, and she really hasn't aged a minute. Its actually kinda uncanny. I'd love to be able to look ahead of time at a time-lapse, at first set in years, until maybe 25, then in 2 or three and 5 year increments until say, 50-60yo. My expectation is that she certainly will have reached maximum height, as her growth plates will have fused already some years ago, and that at 50 I'd be surprised if she looked 19 or 20. Not the only case I've known personally of it. And it really does provoke my curiosity.
Anyone here look far younger than they are, and/or seem to age slowly? I'd be interested to know how common it is, and what the gender divide is, as well as match for autism phenotype (classic, aspie, rett's, PDD or whatever the fuck they are calling it these days when they haven't the faintest idea), so far though I've only really observed this in 'lfa' (ew ew ew i hate that term) auties and close on the spectrum, for the most part at least. And despite at least rumour has it, that autism is more common in males than females (my money is on it being more of a harder to spot, as well as manifesting differently in anything other than full or noear full phenotypic expression. Which isn't to say that penetrance is the same. But if many genes in what aooears to have a large swathe of altered genes responsible for the phenotype in MOST cases are X-linked, then being female will make a dramatic difference in expression, or, as in the monogenetic Rett's syndrome, the causative mutation (in a protein called MECP2,) a knockdown of function mutation, MECP2 knockout, complete loss of function is lethal in utero, whilst knokdown, or partial loss of function or expression is survivable and leads in females to Rett syndrome whilst it kills males at the foetus stage, since MECP2 is X-linked, and girls, having two X chromosomes, have a backup, and its variable what dose of altered gene the female gets, as only one of the two X chromosomes is active in any one cell, the other sex chromosome being inactivated at random by a process called lyonization, after which it forms a Barr body, the leftovers basically. But males, unless they have some other co-occuring mutation like an XXY karyotype don't survive pregnancy, or if they do its not lfor long, and you thus do not see guys with Rett syndrome, aside from a tiny, tiny handful of cases where it must, by chance, occur rogether.
Been reading an interesting article on autism genetics, instead of posting something else elsewhere on another forum. Oops..autie hyperfocus, I see what you did there...at least I do now several hours after the fact
And a game I've been playing on the pc, forgot that, luckily its turn based, old school isometric tactical combat/world management squad based game from the X-com series of the early-mid '90s
Looks like I have a post to write, a bug hunt to finish, since something is pissing me off, hiding, probably crapping itself in a corner after all of its fellows have been shot, blown up, shocked or stun grenaded unconscious or cut to pieces with vibroblades. So the last of the little buggers probably is hiding somewhere, whilst the entire damn squad plus a drone tank loaded with a torpedo launcher is out looking for the little shit. Already had to expend some ammunition I'd rather have kept back for other missions for a captured enemy hand-held guided weapon that serves as pretty effective heavy artillery that can easily outmatch the tank, or for that matter reduce it to scrap metal. Its what gets called for when there are snipers. Sod going in and flushing them out. Just level the building to the ground. Something behind the door? what door? what walls, ceiling and rather large surrounding area. And anything in cover getting grenade happy, or anything dangerous enough not to want to get anywhere near, the thing launches something like a guided, pinpoint accurate sonic pulse-based warhead with a yield resembling a portable tactical micronuke. Only for the strongest agents or those that can dig in into cover, drop it, pick it up after and have an assistant to load and fire if possible. But just perfect for where you know WHERE the enemy is but they aren't sneaking around, but keeping squads pinned down..one round from this thing and the building generally isn't there anymore, and neither is a large area around it. Makes it great for those nasty sub-sea missions in the dark, where things can start unloading shots at your teams the moment the point troops move out or even
to allow sniper fire. Guys at the front get one of these each, fire off into the unexplored area, lots of screams of things dying, silence. No more fire at the troop transport:)
