Young girls wore toga's, grown women didn't.
Speculation is that one did not wear underwear under a toga.

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sorry to confuse you but yes they are. only ignorant people ask how you are without meaning it.

as for ASD my son's just been diagnosed (after 5 years of tests and undecidedness) but at the very high-end (mild form). but after this I've been questioning myself and my idiosyncracies and wondering whether I'm the same or not. My most recent case was I realised yesterday I can't use/have an aversion to cutlery with ceramic handles or with patterns on the handles - but I think that was just a bad memory from the past

Perhaps it's a local custom, but people use it a lot here as a greeting. I once had a placement interview at the Anxiety Disorders Unit, and when I was met my the doctor, she greeted me with "how are you." I spent about 20 seconds trying to determine whether she was asking how I was in general, or if she was asking in a clinical capacity. She finally clicked to what the problem was and told me she just meant hello.

Heh, everymorning my boss walks by my desk to her desk and says: 'hi, how's it going?' I still don't know if she means me, or the system. So I just say 'good morning' and ignore the rest. I suppose it's okay because it's been going on that way since we last rearranged desk about a year ago.

edit; here 'how's it going' can be a greeting as well.

not really as there are no set rules and the symtoms can't be taken individually, like my cutlery disorder

it took about 6 specialists in different areas and 5 years to decide that they couldn't decide for my son and instead waited another year, after which decided to put him on the spectrum based on a physical (poor fine/gross motor skills, balance) and emotional (immaturity), social (hard to interact with peers), poor short term memory, lack of understanding of idioms.

Oh well.. Just wondered.

Anti-social much?

In the way that being psychotic is extreme weirdness maybe.

Well, according to superheroes, overwear is under-rated.

Bear in mind that back then, most ground outside was just bare earth, and paved ground was extremely rare. And of course, society did not have such a squeamishness about personal hygene, although modesty was still desired.

When I went to the Mongolian steppes, I was introduced to a delightful piece of attire known as a 'toilet-coat'. This is a coat with a very spacious bottom-half that goes all the way to the ground. Mongolian Gers do not have an indoor toilet, and the steppe landscape is featureless and does not have any trees to hide behind. To solve the problem of modesty, the residents would take it in turns to borrow the toilet-coat and walk 10 minutes to the nearest hill that blocks the view, and while still wearing the coat, would just let loose (there's enough room in the coat to squat, men could go this way too, and even #2 was possible as well). Not only did it give you modesty, but during the winter (where temperatures can go as low as -50c), it would also keep your parts warm.

I just tried to look up the bit about dresses in Wikipedia to see if that was why they were invented. The article on dresses did not have any useful information, but I did find this little gem instead.

Do you mean this?

So basically, underwear is just one glorified sanity-pad holder.

AE.

I don't believe the line between having a mental disorder and a personality trait is black and white. I think it's a matter of degree..

I believe the correct answer is: "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing."