Penelope

I don't know exactly what's going on nowadays, but people react in a slighted manner at things that to me don't seem like a big deal. One hour back, I asked someone on FB who comes from a certain country about a word in her language. She gave a general answer and when I asked for one more detail about that very word, she didn't provide an answer, but put some picture with quote on the FB wall, and it was clear to me what it meant. Probably looking up the picture and posting it took more of her time, than providing the actual answer. This is just one example of people getting irritated. This whole year, I have been receiving all kinds of slights from various unrelated people, whom I have never knowingly insulted or spoken to in a wrong fashion.

I am kind of fed up with it, and don't know what to do. I would like to know if there are others out there who are experiencing the same thing. I would like to know if it is 'in the air'.

Maybe people feel 'overfed' or 'overasked'. I don't know what it is, but welcome all kind of suggestions.

Thanks everyone!

I have now taken a time out from a guy that I have been seeing since July 2010. All the time throughout the relationship I noticed weird behaviour and remarks and at first I didn't know what to make of it and related it to this other religion and culture from another continent. But that couldn't be it, because in the meantime I made sure to build up a reference frame to see if indeed it might be culturally related. Some things were of course, but other things were not because of the measure in which things took place. Mostly he would exxagerate and amplify certain things and conceal other things. I couldn't put my finger on it. So like a week ago, I thought he might have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, but that didn't explain the odd behaviour related to objects. So yesterday evening I found an extensive wiki on Asperger's Syndrome and everything fell into place. Only one thing was different, namely that he is not a beta (exact science) type of person but alpha (social sciences).

So yesterday evening I texted him with the question if he had ever undergone a psychological test for Asperger's in the past. Do you know what he answered? This: I've read about it and as far as I can see, it has more advantages than disadvantages. I was absolutely flabbergasted! But shouldn't be, I guess...

Normally we say that you will know a tree by it's fruits. He has problems with literally everyone he knows. I have now concluded, that this is a dead end road, because I won't be able to handle it.

Is there a cure or at least a possibility of containment through medicine/farmaceuticals?

Frankly in the country where I live (small country in Europe) I don't see it as an issue yet. But I went through a book called Eurabia by Bat Ye'or and it seems it's more of an issue in France. How do you feel about it in Britain and what are the threats of islam conceived by you personally in the US?

Personally I feel that islam (religion, culture and political ideology) does not go very well with modernism and secularism. I wonder whether splitting it up such as I did is not too much of a Western thought. If people would stick to professing their religion in the privacy of their homes, it might not be such an issue. My concern is, it is too visible nowadays.

Are we heading towards a "Clash of Civilizations" as posited by Samuel Huntington?

Please don't expect this question to be rated too fast, let's give people the chance to answer. Maybe we can actually start a forum or something to debate this.

The question is why is it not believable. Maybe because the figure is too gruesome, or because people cannot imagine that a system can be devised to exterminate people on such a large scale. Other marginal groups were killed too, but they received very little recognition. Everyone who was considered inferior had to die. If you were to apply this principle to the world population and spare only those who are 100% white and who have blond hair and blue eyes, I wonder how many people would be left to keep this world going...

For those who still don't believe, I have a list of numbers here (you will see that in Poland alone 3 million jews were killed, that's 50%). The list is in French but has been extracted from an English source. Six major concentration or extermination camps were built in Poland, off which Aushwitz is the most well-known.

Selon "The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust" le nombre de victimes juives par pays est le suivant :

Autriche : 50 000, soit 27 % de la population juive en 1939. (Austria)

Allemagne : 141 500, soit 25% (Germany)

Belgique : 28 900, soit 44% (Belgium)

Bulgarie : 0 (Bulgaria)

Bohème/Moravie : 78 150, soit 66,1% (Bohemia/Moravia)

Danemark : 60 soit 0,7% (Denmark)

Estonie : 2000, soit 44,4% (Estonia)

Finlande : 7, soit 0,3% (Finland)

France : 77 320, soit 22,1%

Grèce : 67 000, soit 86,6% (Greece)

Hongrie : 569 000, soit 69% (Hungary)

Italie : 7680 soit 17,3%

Lettonie : 71 500, soit 78,1% (Latvia/Letland)

Lituanie : 143 000, soit 85,1% (Lithuania)

Luxembourg : 1950, soit 55,7%

Norvège : 762, soit 44,8% (Norway)

Pays-Bas : 100 000, soit 71,4% (Netherlands)

Pologne : 3 000 000, soit 90,9% (Poland)

Roumanie : 287 000, soit 47,1% (Rumania)

Slovaquie : 71 000, soit 79 ,8% (Slovakia)

URSS : 1 100 000, soit 36,4% (Former USSR)

Yougoslavie : 63 300, soit 81,2%

If you have philosophical, sociological or socio-psychological answers to the above question, feel free to provide some insights.

Hi all of you of the Y!A community! When you are busy answering questions you get all hyped up, wanting to assemble as many points as you can. Asking a question is like giving points away, so even though you'd like to ask questions, you kind of don't because it'll cost you.

So I've been feeling pretty depressed lately because I've had to chose to do something I didn't want to, but of which I know it's better for me. Sometimes life is like that, you need to end something to make room for something new. You know in your heart you have to, but it hurts anyway.

I sure need some cheering up ;-)

If you have a real funny, side-splitting joke or a really original, surprising story to tell, something exceptional that has happened to you, I'd love to hear it. Of course I will reward the best answer.

Thanks all!

I have this male friend who sometimes does weird things that have to do with some indirect way of communicating. I'll give one example. A month ago we had a difference of opinion on the colours light blue and yellow. I couldn't remember to which country they belonged and he said Sweden. This was during the European championships of Soccer. Then I said: "Okay you're right, it's Sweden". For me the matter was closed and it seemed trivial. Two weeks later, I was looking for a plastic bag in the kitchen cupboard and found a soccer t-shirt in the colours lightblue and yellow. And thought: "Wow,what's wrong with him?" I thought the matter had been settled. Who can give me professional advice on what kind of human behaviour this is? Does he have some personality disorder? There have been other occurences before. Thanks.