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anathemaviolet
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Alex, I truly enjoyed hearing you and your girlfriend speak, not only for the speeches' own sake but also because I'm preparing to speak in front of a parents of autistic children support group that my grad school professor runs. I'm doing my master's in marriage and family therapy, and she has an autistic son. She finds me "so cool!" and asked that I do this.
My talk on Mar 25 is called:
"Finding Peace in Feeling Different: My Asperger Story"
Wish me luck! I'm definitely bringing some notes in case I get distracted by the crowd, but I'm generally quite good at public speaking and don't get nervous (unlike in unfamiliar social situations).
I hope you make more speeches and post them on this forum. I'm planning on audio recording mine, so perhaps I will post it. |
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Tetraquartz
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I thought Alex was quite Aspie, his voice inflections, the body language, and the hand gestures came across as such. I haven't met very many Aspies or observed them, so I'm interested in seeing how others behave in different situations.
Wow, Katie reminded me a lot of me in college! (I went to art school too) Her choice of clothing and the paintbrushes in her hair, the way she talked, and the hand gesturing, that's very familiar. 
You guys were great at talking to a group, you both seem happy and confident. I'm glad you started this website, Alex. Thanks very much!
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anathemaviolet
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Tetraquartz,
I just noticed that Katie does hand gestures in the same way I do (pretty much like normal people, despite other Aspie traits). I do it more when I'm anxious than any other time. I wonder if it's correct to assume that gesturing while speaking is less common in guy Aspies than girl ones. Isn't that how the general population is too? |
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gismo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Bravo! Bravo Alex! 
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Tetraquartz
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| anathemaviolet wrote: | Tetraquartz,
I just noticed that Katie does hand gestures in the same way I do (pretty much like normal people, despite other Aspie traits). I do it more when I'm anxious than any other time. I wonder if it's correct to assume that gesturing while speaking is less common in guy Aspies than girl ones. Isn't that how the general population is too? |
I don't know. I do know people used to poke fun at me for overuse of hand gestures. And other mannerisms that I couldn't tell the difference between normal and not. Yet they seemed to notice something.
In public speaking one learns to keep hand gestures to a minimum, but I kept forgetting and using hand gestures anyway. I took public speaking in high school, and enjoyed giving speeches to the point where I was elected as class representative, but still couldn't talk very well informally.
Nowadays, that's pretty difficult for me.
I'm not sure I answered your question... except that, I don't really know. 
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Gremlin
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| scumsuckingdouchebag wrote: | | I don't understand why these people in the audience are laughing. IMO, they're weirdos. |
In my experience, people on average will giggle or even cackle in reaction to anything...uncomfortable. Some things are funny [the bit about the theistic clubs having to go out and look for new members got me to smirk], so people laugh at them as expected; other things are perplexing, for whatever reason, so people laugh at them through lingering atavistic instinct: lower primates bear their teeth at threats; higher ones, like humans, have ameliorated to laughter.
Or, as Alex explained: they thought it was funny. Which I suppose is about the same as comparing I climbed the mountain because it was there to I climbed it because my extinct ancestors climbed things and I retain an unexplainable instinct to get to the top of trees and mountains and--look, it was there, okay? I don't know why I do these things. Lawl.
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Happyhelen
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| I know tow people with asperger syndrome who did a talk at the National Austitic Society I Exist Campaing, which was really brave of them as it can be quite nerve racking talking to a large group of people. |
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Alex,
Thank you for creating WP & your video was wonderful. |
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