I didn't project anything. Rather, I cautioned against projecting because we don't have the context for the photo.

Maybe it's all the focus on the rings that she is over. Maybe she is not a happiness grinch, but this photo is all set up so that all the girls are pointing to the rings...not the girls in happy relationships.

I got that you don't know her. My commented was about how you are assuming that this women is like these people that you know. I thought that was clear, clearly I was wrong. Mea Culpa.

You said it, but you still managed to project an entire type on her in the photograph. "I know a lot like her" is a simple rhetorical move that sets up a comparison.

Wow, you need new friends.

Is that she's grumpy because of the wedding industrial complex or is it that she's grumpy in the picture because she's not engaged and/or being invited to a party that celebrates engagements might be annoying because she wasn't? The answer of course is that we don't 100% know. I would just be careful to project…

You are assuming a lot aren't you? Maybe she just wasn't in the mood for all the OMG's!

You kid, but Club Sesso in Portland has a fantastic dinner, New Horizons in Seattle has a great buffet and Club Eden in Vancouver has an awesome desert selection.

"Where on Earth do you live that orgies are advertised in the local paper?"

Right?!

Asperger's is significantly underdiagnosed in women. So is ADHD for that matter, mostly due to the relevant diagnostic manuals mainly focusing on describing what's typical of boys/men with the condition(s).

I am skeptical and sarcastic about your diagnosis, as per your instructions.

I dunno...I was pretty tickled to get a diagnosis of fibromyalgia after years of doctors thinking I was a hypochondriac and my contemplating all the worst case scenarios, and then finding out the worst was just what I was already living with...it felt great. I think if you had been told for years that you were dumb…

I would also think you'd want to keep the selection quite light, because who wants to have sex after eating five brownies (of course, the beauty of the orgy/buffet paradigm is that you can have sex whilst eating five brownies, which is a totally different ballgame)? I'm thinking that ideally it would feature a lot of…

Protip: When concern-trolling, it helps not to use ableist terms for the people you claim to be doing it on behalf of.

"My nonspecific, unsubstantiated statement about overdiagnoses, on the other hand, should be accepted without question."

How nice a buffet are we talking here? This is an important consideration.

Seriously, I am tickled that a woman who devoted her life to her ailing mother but was told not to bother with schooling, that she was "slow", was just informed to the contrary. I can't imagine what it would feel like to be told that as a matter of fact, I was not stupid, that it turns out that sneaking suspicion I…

Riiiiiight, because Doug Barry knows so much about Asperger's/ASD/psychiatry, he's just being informed and reasonably skeptical.

God, I hate themed orgy parties. The last one I went to had a Golden Age Hollywood theme, so why were they all so upset when I turned up as Lassie?