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[belamyi]

Everybody and their brother claims to be on the spectrum these days. I think "look, I'm just really weird" is a better explanation.

If you just knew the truth...

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However, most people do not seem so ready to accept they are idiots

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[G-Lexington]

Everybody and their brother claims to be on the spectrum these days. I think "look, I'm just really weird" is a better explanation.

And probably more accurate. We can always go back to "annoying", too.

However, most people do not seem so ready to accept they are idiots

I'm the first one to admit this one. I even have the test results to back it up. (Just barely missed the "moron" category!) However, this the one that people are the least willing to accept about me.

Lex

 

[belamyi]

And probably more accurate. We can always go back to "annoying", too.



I'm the first one to admit this one. I even have the test results to back it up. (Just barely missed the "moron" category!) However, this the one that people are the least willing to accept about me.

Lex

 

[G-Lexington]

More like

Lex

 

[frankfrank]

somewhat autistic."


I don't feel any different. I don't feel like "I feel seen" or anything like that. Just that there's a much shorter and handier term to use than "look, I'm just really weird, OK?"

Lex

I don't FALSELY&& claim to be on the spectrum, because I most definitely am. Once a [now-deceased] friend pointed out attributes of Asperger's back around 1996 or thereabouts, and I quickly recognized HEY THAT'S ME!! (because he had recognized it already), it was greatly reassuring that there was finally a phrase/term that applied to me. Like my friend a day or two earlier, I zeroed-in on it entirely...and I embrace it.

&& ref. Alistair, post #4932 not quoted here

***FACE-BLINDNESS (where one cannot "assimilate" faces into their mind very well - such as in a movie with too many characters) is something I have at least moderately. It was more severe in my younger years, but it's enough that I can't "get" about 1/3 of movies because I lose the characters, for example. That is a common trait of Asperger's.

***BODY LANGUAGE is virtually unintelligible for me - and the corollary is that I may make expressions or facial positions (without trying) which don't speak properly to the situation at hand, such as smiling in situations that should elicit a much different emotion.

***EXTREME FOCUS on some very narrow interests (a couple of my hobbies are that way - not the hobby G-Lex knows about, but a couple much more arcane ones), and a tendency to zero-in on extreme minutiae. I am also very list-oriented.

***I am quite intelligent, my IQ has been measured in the middle 100s.

***(Not sure if this is a trait) I remember very, very few "events" until I was about 7 years old, but I have strong memories of a LOT of music from two and three years (and, in a few cases, four) before that. I don't remember AT ALL that there was a war at the time in Korea, but I have VERY vivid memories of songs going back to 1951 and 1952.

At least the first four are traits that Asperger's often displays. It took me until my late-teens and early adulthood (including an extremely beneficial 54 weeks in a psychiatric hospital, as I entered my teens, that I feel VERY fortunate about - probably saved my life) to be able to consider myself as high-functioning. Before then, I didn't even know how to be a friend or make friends. My social life has flourished in recent decades, starkly contrasting with my life before 30.

Hell, back in the days I was in Psychiatric care, even the general concept of "autism" was barely known - and I got a lot of my medical records from that period, with no mention whatsoever of the term "autism" to be found. I don't think Asperger's was named until the 1990s.

(Just barely missed the "moron" category!) However, this the one that people are the least willing to accept about me.

Lex

B-b-b-b-but...THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, man!

I never even picked up on even the most trivial hint of that when I've met you in Denver (and, at which JUB meet...was it Anaheim? San Antonio?). Things like that don't stop me from interacting and liking other people, never has, never will - but it's usually pretty obvious, and I've certainly known (and liked!) such people. Lex, we didn't talk much, but it was all good, man, and I hope our paths cross again.

 

[belamyi]

 

[G-Lexington]

B-b-b-b-but...THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE, man!

B-b-b-b-but WHY is that impossible? If the average IQ is set to 100, surely that means (roughly) half of the population is above it, and (roughly) half of the population is below it. I don’t mind being in the lower half. I’ve learned to accommodate around my rather sluggish brain’s actions for the most part, I found work that I can do well in, and I’ve surrounded myself with (mainly) smarter people who help nudge my intelligence up a tad. I certainly don’t find it anything to be ashamed of.

Lex

 

[belamyi]

B-b-b-b-but WHY is that impossible? If the average IQ is set to 100, surely that means (roughly) half of the population is above it, and (roughly) half of the population is below it. I don’t mind being in the lower half. I’ve learned to accommodate around my rather sluggish brain’s actions for the most part, I found work that I can do well in, and I’ve surrounded myself with (mainly) smarter people who help nudge my intelligence up a tad. I certainly don’t find it anything to be ashamed of.

Lex

 

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[ChristianGianni]

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[m1thousand]

Janet Jackson's 'If' and Britney Spear's 'Circus' combined (by me)

 

[ChristianGianni]

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[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ I know how he got the chancre.

 

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[Kyanimal]

How hot does it have to be before you resort to this?