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makuranososhi
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01 Oct 2008, 3:36 pm

Silver_Meteor wrote:
Do you think someone can have a lot of friends on Facebook and still be on the Autism Spectrum?


The two are completely unrelated. On Facebook, I've encountered a lot of people from junior high and high school who sought me out, despite the fact that I felt completely detached from them and largely ostracized. Apparently, over the years they remember things differently. I've studied and taught at so many different schools, there are contacts and connections from each and everyone. Personally, I didn't choose the terminology of a friend list, but I've met almost everyone person on my Facebook at one time or another. As for MySpace... well, I've been there a long time (one of the first 100,000) and generally have more of my online-only connections on that list. I don't see where the two behaviors conflict; rather, given the tendency of those on the spectrum to have focused interests and almost obsessive traits, it makes a degree of sense for me that such events would occur.


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