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Originally posted by Elok
Being aspie, I'm somewhat emotionally disconnected from the crowd,
Being aspie, I'm somewhat emotionally disconnected from the crowd,
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Is aspie code for arsehole?I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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On the off-chance you're not trolling, look up Asperger's Syndrome. I don't always entirely understand the feelings and motivations of normal folk.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Is aspie code for arsehole?Comment
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how are moving on and remembering in contradiction?
goyim
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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I figured it was ironic that his comment was very arseholish (though I picked up on what aspie meant).Originally posted by Elok
On the off-chance you're not trolling, look up Asperger's Syndrome. I don't always entirely understand the feelings and motivations of normal folk.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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I don't want to completely derail this topic but I did know the "disease" that Elok was refering to and really wasn't trolling.I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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So he wanted to know if he could call himself that? Sorry, DD, there's more to it than that.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I figured it was ironic that his comment was very arseholish (though I picked up on what aspie meant).Comment
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Of course. There's the geeky interests and the vague criteria of "odd speech."I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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DD,
I have a cousin who has Apsbergers. Being "geeky" is an oversimplified understatement. The kid made up his own language as a toddler b/c he couldn't grasp English (w/o special help), but he's a friggin savant at math. To say he is socially awkward would be a massive understatement. His brain does not work the same way as yours or mine.
It's real. It's not cancer, but it exists. There is a range of severity, of course.
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I have a friend with Asperger's who completely fails to grasp non-verbal communication.
Because he has violent tendencies, though, and because he used to train extensively in martial arts, if anyone ever approaches him directly his first instinct is to take up a defensive stance and prepare to fight.
It does not occur to him that a person might want to hug him, or they might just be turning to face him, or they might be about to walk past him.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Plus oversensitivity to the various senses, strong aversion to physical contact, inability to interpret nonverbal communication, dysgraphia, clumsiness, and varying savant abilities. Probably other symptoms too, I just can't think of 'em off the top of my head. You're talking through your rectum.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Of course. There's the geeky interests and the vague criteria of "odd speech."Comment
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There's a certain irony to that.Comment
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Is dysgraphia a symptom (or whatever)? I didnt know that.Originally posted by Elok
Plus oversensitivity to the various senses, strong aversion to physical contact, inability to interpret nonverbal communication, dysgraphia, clumsiness, and varying savant abilities. Probably other symptoms too, I just can't think of 'em off the top of my head. You're talking through your rectum.
Hmmm. *contemplates even MORE the spectrum disorder aspects of autism. *
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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It can be. It is in my case; I can only handwrite about a page before getting severe cramps, and it takes ~5 seconds for me to sign my name. If it weren't for computers I'd have no chance of becoming a writer.Comment
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Ok lets see.
Geekiness, check
Odd speech - no.
Plus oversensitivity to the various senses
Some.
, nostrong aversion to physical contact
inability to interpret nonverbal communication,
Uneven. Definitely strong ability, but less than Id like sometimes.
dysgraphia,
Check
clumsiness,
check.
Yup, spectrum disorder. Maybe. Though QOTM laughs when I suggest it."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Everyone has symptoms of everything, LOTM. Self-diagnosis never works. ****, the DSM-IV says I'm schizophrenic.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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