Counterstrike: do you have SOCIAL imagination
There was this poll about whether Aspies kids have imagination or not. I believe the question there was not specific enough. Inventing a light bulb can be seen as imagination as well as talking to your imaginary girlfriend inside your head. So lets differentiate here.
I propose that AS people do not have social imagination, or very limited social imagination, based on my own experience. By limited I dont mean they don't do it often. I mean that the subject/depth are very simple and shallow.
For me, i may talk to someone im my head (even very often). but actually it's all a monolog without ever trying to imagine what the other person would think, how he would react and what he would answer. I call that shallow.
What about you?
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Aspie score: 131 of 200
NT score: 34 of 200
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I do have social imagination....and I 'rehearse' social situations in my head but just like you I don't think of what other person is going to say....and I only practice of what I'M going to say when those specific social situations comes up (which is probably why when other people say things....I don't know what to say next, because I didn't expected them to say that and when I say my 'scripted monologue', I talk endless....)
I can spend hours (without realizing it) 'rehearsing' of what I'm going to say, like 3 to 4 hours while pacing/walking back and forth my room
I also have 'fantasy world' in some parts of my inner universe, but that's another subject (since your only talking about SOCIAL imagination)
I can spend hours (without realizing it) 'rehearsing' of what I'm going to say, like 3 to 4 hours while pacing/walking back and forth my room
I also have 'fantasy world' in some parts of my inner universe, but that's another subject (since your only talking about SOCIAL imagination)
What you describe is something I've read a lot of NTs on other forums describing, they also write they rehearse scenarios/social situations in their head.
I don't do this, and I wonder if having good social imagination is one defining difference between NTs and people with autism. Among others.
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I can spend hours (without realizing it) 'rehearsing' of what I'm going to say, like 3 to 4 hours while pacing/walking back and forth my room
I also have 'fantasy world' in some parts of my inner universe, but that's another subject (since your only talking about SOCIAL imagination)
Every world you said could be exactly from me. word for word (except from the fantasy world). really. also the pacing and walking. I think walking is also a sort of stimming.
I believe this sort of "rehearsing" is a very non-sophisicated way of social imagination.
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Aspie score: 131 of 200
NT score: 34 of 200
Possibly Aspie (diagnosed by an autism expert, doc moves abroad, forced to change docs and all say it's schizophrenia NOS or schizo-affective disorde or personality disorders. initial doc was a colleague of uncle Simon btw. you do the math.). (edit: by Uncle Simon I mean Simon Baron Cohen. Just to clear things up.)
whats a social Imagination?
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i think i do, i would roleplay in my head, for example,
Person: Emily, where do you go to school
Me: -insert school name here-
Person: oh, thats very good,
ect ect ect
i would think of possible topics another person would talk about and prepare an answer, this isnt a very effective tool but i guess it helped with some things.
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Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 severity without intellectual disability and without language impairment in 2015.
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Well I innitially thought I have read about it somewhere but now I think I may as well have made it up . But i described what I mean. Maybe I'm refering to another term I have forgotten or I'm wrongly translating some term I read in german.
but there is an article on wikipedia which is somewhat related to what i meant.
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Male
Aspie score: 131 of 200
NT score: 34 of 200
Possibly Aspie (diagnosed by an autism expert, doc moves abroad, forced to change docs and all say it's schizophrenia NOS or schizo-affective disorde or personality disorders. initial doc was a colleague of uncle Simon btw. you do the math.). (edit: by Uncle Simon I mean Simon Baron Cohen. Just to clear things up.)
Well I innitially thought I have read about it somewhere but now I think I may as well have made it up . But i described what I mean. Maybe I'm refering to another term I have forgotten or I'm wrongly translating some term I read in german.
but there is an article on wikipedia which is somewhat related to what i meant.
.......what?
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Obsessing over Sonic the Hedgehog since 2009
Diagnosed with Aspergers' syndrome in 2012.
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1 severity without intellectual disability and without language impairment in 2015.
DA: http://mephilesdark123.deviantart.com
I have fairly decent social imagination; I do often imagine how other people will react or what they will say (there is also the whole "intense inner fantasy word" going on).
The problem is that my social imagination often isn't very accurate; I tend to expect that people will react much more harshly or cruelly than they actually do (probably due to my low self esteem), which increases my social anxiety.
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I am not a textbook case of any particular disorder; I am an abstract, poetic portrayal of neurovariance with which much artistic license was taken.
I don't know that that tendency is a product of low self-esteem, so much as the result of previous experience - it only takes once or twice for someone to tear you apart, before you realize that in any preparation for a conversation, you must prepare for the ugliest confrontation that MIGHT occur.
But yes, I always go in expecting the worst. And I'm always a bit shocked and caught-off guard (but relieved) if it doesn't turn out as bad as I was afraid it would.
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