coolies
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 Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:31 am Post subject: How do you think the world sees you? |
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I get told a lot that I walk around expressionless and I often look bored or not interested, no matter what I'm doing. Does this have something to do with lack of eye contact?
I'm wondering who else hears this or similar things on a regular basis? |
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poppyfields
Deinonychus
Joined: Jul 24, 2010
Posts: 328
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think the world sees me at all. I feel so invisible I wonder if I'm just a figment of someone's imagination sometimes |
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MindWithoutWalls
Aspie-Dyke
Joined: Oct 26, 2011
Posts: 1377
Location: In the Workshop, with the Toolbox
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:18 am Post subject: |
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I'm a Fig Newton of my own imagination.
I think different people see me in different ways, depending on how they've gotten to know me. I sometimes get surprised by how they feel, in both good and bad ways. But I can't always make sense of why. I've found asking probably makes them feel weird if it's a good feeling and makes them have too much room to attack me more if they feel negatively, so I've learned not to do that with most people.
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b9
whatever..
Joined: Aug 15, 2008
Posts: 8369
Location: australia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:20 am Post subject: |
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| i can not see through the "eyes of the world". |
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PTSmorrow
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 14, 2011
Age: 54
Posts: 719
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| I have no idea how the world or a person sees me unless they would tell me in clear and unambiguous words. This is part of my ASD -- i simply don't get the cues NT's use to give each other feedback. For instance, a smile can have countless meanings, so how can i know whether it's meant as agreement, niceness, cynical, or anything else? No way. |
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b9
whatever..
Joined: Aug 15, 2008
Posts: 8369
Location: australia
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| i wish that there was a type of telephone that had only a mouthpiece and no earpiece. |
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Lucywlf
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Joined: Jun 23, 2011
Posts: 372
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| I really couldn't tell you, and I don't see that as a particularly bad thing. Worrying about it used to drive me crazy. Now I just do what I think is right and let it go from there. |
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1000Knives
It's not difficult if you know how.
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Age: 22
Posts: 4607
Location: CT, USA
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One of my friends after telling him about the Aspergers diagnosis said "Yeah, I always thought you were from Mars, but hey, I don't think there's anything wrong with you."
But basically, people think I'm weird. And smart. And talented. But mostly weird. I don't know, I can say what individual people think, but as far as on a whole, no idea.
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Joe90
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Joined: Feb 24, 2010
Posts: 8252
Location: Great Britain
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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The world sees me as a normal person but with a brightly-coloured aura around me that catches their eye and makes them stare at me without them knowing why. This aura quickly fades once somebody has gotten to know me or has become familiar with my face, and then they completely forget about the aura eerily quickly. Even if one is not facing towards me, if I am coming towards them they can sense the aura and it makes them turn round to look at me.
God knows what's going to happen when I die, if something eerie about me can be noticed when I'm alive......
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Uprising
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Joined: Jan 10, 2012
Posts: 2920
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A combination of this:
this:
this:
and this:
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outofplace
Geometrophile
Joined: Jun 11, 2012
Age: 39
Posts: 1771
Location: In A State of Quantum Flux
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People who don't know me probably see me as a combination of: on drugs, retarded, poor, homeless, eccentric, depressed (this one may actually be true), or autistic (if they know what to look for). If they actually get a conversation going with me they usually see me as highly intelligent and educated-despite not even having finished an associates degree. In all cases though, they see me as odd.
The funny thing is though that once you get to know me I seem more normal than first impressions would let on. I was sitting with a friend last night and he told me that if I could just be like I am around him with everyone I meet that I would be fine. That's the problem though: I can't. If I haven't learned someone then I don't know how to respond to them.
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redrobin62
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Joined: Apr 03, 2012
Age: 50
Posts: 3843
Location: Seattle, WA
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I think people think I'm intense, a little scatterbrained, focused, not as talented as I think I am, arrogant, a little hard to get along with...
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TalksToCats
Toucan
Joined: Jun 02, 2012
Posts: 255
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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I really can't tell.
On the occasions they tell me I'm frequently surpised.
I do think I often come across as more confident than I feel, or at least there have been occasions when I've explained I didn't feel that confident, and people have said they can't tell.
When I was younger I was convinced people found me weird, but I'm no longer sure if even this was true.
I try not be rude or offensive but otherwise I've given up trying to tell how others perceive me. |
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Blownmind
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Joined: Feb 19, 2012
Age: 33
Posts: 823
Location: Norway
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"I guess he must be working at a place where they get free promotional t-shirts, 'cause he sure use those two t-shirts alot." (I do not btw, I just own 10 of one type, and.. 25 of another type)
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AspieOtaku
Leader of the Otaku Legion
Joined: Feb 18, 2012
Age: 30
Posts: 5899
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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The world sees me as a freak who is random hyper and able to speak foreign languages proficiently. When I explain things in scientific terminology, they avoid me completely.
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