Do you have an aspie-dar?

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Kinda, I've been wrong before. Im not ready to brand people as aspie because I realize only one out of several hundred people are aspie so were not. I knew this guy at my school was aspie. I also suspect this guy at my workplace is aspie too.

There have been a few aspies who I met in RL and then they end up in an aspie social skills group. I didnt know they were aspie. One guy in my HS, who didnt come across as aspie to me, he's very surfer like, but I did notice, he didnt really have friends. Another guy in my summer school class. That same summer, he was in a social skills group. A guy in my college who later dropped out ended up in my social skills group and then I got to know him. If he would have never dropped out, I think we woulda been friends.

There were these twin sisters from HS who I thought in retrospect were aspie. So yeah, I've met a good handful of aspies in real life.

That made me laugh rather a lot.

My neighbor out here at lake once gave me a sage bit of advice: "never look inside people."

And the more I think about it, the more I'd say that "gleaning another's private life is fraught with pitfalls," regardless of how exotic or prosaic the gleaner's mind may be. Perhaps we have uncovered the root of all evil here.

notice i said "non-sensitive" - a "sensitive" being the old-fashioned term for a psychically talented person. i have known bona-fide psychics who would read me like an open book, with malice aforethought. i've known some scary evil people in the military who somehow could always tell just what i was thinking.