[Magdalen] Everett @ the DMV.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Yep. Sounds like ADD to me.  Conflation is a wonderful thing.  I've done
(suffered thru) it many times.

ADD has the unintended consequence of much, much fewer memories, since by
nature of the dysfunction, you don't attend to things long enough to lay a
good memory down, hence the tendency toward stuff like conflation.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> He might have ADD or ADHD, but I think that rather than a false memory, he
> just didn't notice in the first place that the two registrations he needed
> to do for his eighteenth birthday were different things, and didn't pay
> enough attention to what he was doing to notice that what was said and what
> was on his piece of paper and what he was signing were not about voting.
> He remembered "registering".
>
>
>
> On 5/12/16 2:53 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> Sounds like that young man might have ADD.  Because that is the sort of
>> thing I would do, and the false memory can be so convincing.  I keep an
>> extra memory and bring it with me most places. It's called an
>> understanding
>> and patient wife.
>>
>>
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 5/9/16 11:36 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>>
>>> Selective Service:  I'll ask his teacher.  You'd think it would have been
>>>> mentioned by now.  Is Selective Service still a Thing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wonder whether you were in the room any of the times I told one of my
>>> favorite stories about voting, particularly relevant this election year,
>>> and forever relevant to the nature of teen boys.
>>>
>>> A few years ago I was working Election Boards when a local boy wandered
>>> in
>>> expecting to vote for the first time.  No question of ID or voter fraud,
>>> we
>>> all knew the kid.  But he wasn't on the voter registration list that came
>>> from the County Clerk's office.  He insisted that he had registered,
>>> remembered going into town to do it, brought back a "piece of paper" that
>>> said he was registered (which he didn't have with him). The head Judge
>>> there even phoned the County Clerk's Office, who said he wasn't
>>> registered.  He got all hot and bothered, said he was going to go home
>>> and
>>> find that paper, and take it into town and wave it in their faces.  A few
>>> hours later, his stepmother came by to vote after she got off work, so we
>>> asked her whether he'd gotten it straightened out.  She said, "Yeah.  He
>>> was registered.  For the draft."
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sibyl Smirl
>>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
>>> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>