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You know what, lets scrap the hospital idea and design an amusement park instead. That would be much more fun!
 
Vikki look into this book, it probably will help. I know I found it a fascinating read.

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wow, that's quite the front cover, very cool.

and P, how's she supposed to make 100/hr at an amusement park?
 
qtowngirl said:
how's she supposed to make 100/hr at an amusement park?
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Why we’ll charge outrageously high entry fees and then supplement her income. Plus she can help deal with any crazies we might run into. Amusement parks run rampant with them.

qtowngirl said:
that's me saying 'really, I derail YOU?'
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Alright let me rephrase it, you help me exploit my own derailment. Does that seem right? :)
 
P-Funk said:
Why we’ll charge outrageously high entry fees and then supplement her income. Plus she can help deal with any crazies we might run into. Amusement parks run rampant with them.
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how true! crazies everywhere, you interested froggy?
 
Yah is that something you can jump to or does the thought make you want to croak... Just like my terrible puns
 
I'm really good at badminton. Maybe because im so bad....(now that is a terrible pun)
but seriously im like a freak of nature at badminton. ;)
 
trying to get this... are you trying to say if you played badminton at our new amusement park we'd haul you off cuz you looked like a crazie?
 
Hey Froggie,

Welcome to the forums!! I have epilepsy, I'm a 3rd year psych student and I am familiar with the test, although I haven't taken it myself, just learnt about it at uni. I've been on computers all day so my eyes are going funny but let me know if I can help. Happy to talk about it =)

I'm supposedly a good writer, I have a great memory and I can think on my feet, but I can't hold numbers in my short term/working memory while I'm trying to add up. I'm useless at maths (I'm rote learning/winging my way through these statistic units!) and I ask really dumb questions, despite trying to think about it first.

I also have aphasia and some Brocas and Wernicke's symptoms before and after a seizure. I have left temporal lobe epilepsy.
 
Froggie -- I had a neuropsych test done about 3 years ago, including the WAIS-IV test, as well as WTAR, Attention Span tests (COWAT and TRAILS), WMS-IV Logical Memory, REY-O, CVLT-2, and a recognition memory test. Feel free to PM me if you want the results or have any other questions. I don't think there was anything particularly notable about them, though since I developed epilepsy in my thirties, I may have less of a need or ability to develop compensatory parts of the brain.
 
I took a WAIS when I was first diagnosed. Surprisingly my processing speed was below average... my memory of words was TERRIBLE (I forgot the words almost immediately), and I couldn't put the blocks together for the life of me. The neuropsychologist suspected it had to do with attention. I do tend to have a difficult time focusing when someone is speaking to me (though I learn well through reading).

However, my verbal skills were above average... which is weird to me. I also did really well with the numbers portion. Aside from the WAIS, I've always been a natural with music. I picked up singing and the flute quickly, and even before any training I was good at putting notes together and making music (my friend who had a keyboard used to joke I'd be the next Beethoven). And while my memory and listening skills might suck at times, I'm really good at putting concepts together, which lends itself well to writing (I was actually a psychology major and this helped me out a lot). So yeah, I guess music and writing are two things I have always excelled at.
 
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