30 Sep 2011, 9:06 pm
Fnord wrote:
Look for the big scarlet "A" sewn on to their clothing. I see a lot of them around Disneyland.
Ooh, that's a good one! My son always wears a big red baseball cap with a large letter A in the front.
( Although A is his initial.) You probably don't need that to spot him, though. Everybody in my family's pretty obvious.
01 Oct 2011, 2:57 am
01 Oct 2011, 4:15 am
swbluto wrote:
I think my obsession is verging on being aspie.
It could be all sorts of things including a personality disorder.
swbluto wrote:
But, being aspie is creepy, so I guess you could say that.
Most people aren't intentionally creepy, or if they are told then they are generally mortified and don't just shrug it off.
swbluto wrote:
Anyway, I hope to gain insight into the condition that I can't gain from the internet. Sure, it's fun reading everyone's posts and everything, but I lack "real life" experience that cannot be described by text alone. You know, the interpersonal dynamics, how they tend to react and/or respond, how they respond to certain introductions, etc.
I want to take an aspie and make them my lab project.
I want to take an aspie and make them my lab project.
The following is copies from the National Autistic Society website, specifically "What is Apserger Syndrome":
Asperger syndrome is mostly a 'hidden disability'. This means that you can't tell that someone has the condition from their outward appearance. People with the condition have difficulties in three main areas. They are:
social communication
social interaction
social imagination.
The fact that you want to meet these people and even care what the interpersonal dynamics are is rather telling.
01 Oct 2011, 4:17 am
swbluto wrote:
If I were to ask directly, I think I would ask something like... "Do you have something that starts with an... A?", but that requires a level of intelligence to answer that is not necessarily guaranteed by someone with autism/aspergers.
Yes, thanks, it's called an appendix.
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01 Oct 2011, 4:25 am
nemorosa wrote:
swbluto wrote:
I think my obsession is verging on being aspie.
It could be all sorts of things including a personality disorder.
swbluto wrote:
But, being aspie is creepy, so I guess you could say that.
Most people aren't intentionally creepy, or if they are told then they are generally mortified and don't just shrug it off.
swbluto wrote:
Anyway, I hope to gain insight into the condition that I can't gain from the internet. Sure, it's fun reading everyone's posts and everything, but I lack "real life" experience that cannot be described by text alone. You know, the interpersonal dynamics, how they tend to react and/or respond, how they respond to certain introductions, etc.
I want to take an aspie and make them my lab project.
I want to take an aspie and make them my lab project.
The following is copies from the National Autistic Society website, specifically "What is Apserger Syndrome":
Asperger syndrome is mostly a 'hidden disability'. This means that you can't tell that someone has the condition from their outward appearance. People with the condition have difficulties in three main areas. They are:
social communication
social interaction
social imagination.
The fact that you want to meet these people and even care what the interpersonal dynamics are is rather telling.
I hope that you realise that by stating the above that you have effectively broken the rules of this forum, as you are basically making a personal attack against swbluto; please refrain from this type of behaviour, or I shall inform a Moderator of your actions in due course.
You have been warned.
01 Oct 2011, 4:35 am
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01 Oct 2011, 6:07 am
nemorosa wrote:
TwistedReflection wrote:
I hope that you realise that by stating the above that you have effectively broken the rules of this forum, as you are basically making a personal attack against swbluto; please refrain from this type of behaviour, or I shall inform a Moderator of your actions in due course.
You have been warned.
You have been warned.
I don't think so. You have something of a "hair trigger". swbluto has thicker skin than that as I'm sure he'll agree.
Oh, you a-hole! Stop baselessly attacking me and stop polluting my threads with your vicious garbage!
Just kidding.
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It could be all sorts of things including a personality disorder.
Like the personality disorder known as 'nerd', lol.
Anyway, I read that those with autism tend to have an odd gait, so I'd think it wouldn't necessarily be "hidden" if one looked closely enough. Of course, I could be entirely wrong. So, help me people and please stop trying to hide your own kind out of protection with this "hidden disability" fluff! I was just kidding with the "I want to make them my lab project". I promise I won't conduct harmful experiments nor will I use needles. Promise!
01 Oct 2011, 7:38 am
swbluto wrote:
Anyway, I'm going to an ASD support meeting on Oct 25th so I can see the range of individuals that comprise the spectrum. It's going to be exciting for me to see what you guys are like in real life. 
Well, that's good.
But, my ToM says it wont stop here, sw, even if you went to a 1000 of such meetings. There will always be in the back of your mind, "wait, I noticed there is a wide variance with this, and I couldn't tell so and so over there was on the spectrum-- maybe I'm on the spectrum, afterall."
Or as a hypothetical, if say, you went to a psychologist and they said ,"no you don't," would it close the "thought?" After some time later: " Maybe he missed something."
?
It seems these obsessions will always feed on itself as there are no absolutes about anything-- it's a mad bottomless pit.
What one thing would it take to close it off either way? Nothing for the moment. You tell yourself: "just one more thing."
01 Oct 2011, 8:07 am
