... autism, but autistic people.
... what causes autism, but what encourages passion in autistic people.
I'm definitely not interested in those discussions about religion that have gone on for days now at AFF lately, it has happened many times before and I don't think anyone has any use of them.
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Anyway, 'autistic people' is alot more definite obsession of mine, than 'autism' which has alot more abstract meaning.
"I'm not obsessed with being autistic, I rather have a big interest in other autistic people"
... was something I said to my dad when he expressed fear of me wondering too much on 'being autistic'.
I wonder how it is possible to encourage passion in autistic individuals. Gifted children with traits of autism are known to have a constant obsession with just about everything, while I see that many autistics might shy away from anything they have no understanding of.
I think that I myself find it encouraging to learn about new things as long as I can put these new things into a contex. What I mean by context is previous understanding of things related to the new thing I am learning about.
I can imagine that many autistic individuals meet alot of things they do not feel they can put into any contex, while the things they can easily put into contex is alot more rewarding to learn about.
Just my theory of how autistic obsessions work.
Trying to figure things out from one of common big aspie obsessions out of the stereotype:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/
... exactly why do many aspies like to learn about Star Trek? There is taekwon-do which I've got the impression of is very popular among aspies lately, someone said it is because it is straight-forward. I guess you can say it is rather easy to get interest in computer games, it might just be stereotypical thinking but I think aspies will often play alot more than others. So what do the computer games do to fetch attention?
I'd say in terms of human nature Starwars is much more realistic compared to Startrek ;p
Are they really realistic at all,then...?
I just don't believe humanity is capable of universal peace and love ;p
My special interest as a child was vehicles. I could name every car on the road by the time I was two. I met my husband when we were both volunteer motorcycle instructors.
My husband's special interest (besides cooking and sport!) was the air force. He was a decorated air cadet. Sadly, just before he was due to join, his eyesight suddenly deteriorated so he followed his second interest, maths, into an actuarial career in pensions management and then into systems management.
We were lucky to find out that my eldest son's special interest was music - I bought him a small keyboard when he was a toddler and he was reading music by the time he was four and a half. He is now a concert pianist.
Son number two was very keen on both cooking and martial arts. I used to encourage him in the kitchen. He tried being a trainee chef but the pressure was too great. He now manages his own WingTsun school.
My daughter loved horses with a passion and volunteered at a riding school for the disabled. She also loved history and languages.
One of my twins has a passion for sport, the other for animal welfare, especially marine, both adore computer games, as do I. Had they been around when I was growing up I might have had a very different upbringing!
I personally like the control and predictability of computer games. So much better than real life!
My special interest as a child was vehicles. I could name every car on the road by the time I was two. I met my husband when we were both volunteer motorcycle instructors.
My husband's special interest (besides cooking and sport!) was the air force. He was a decorated air cadet. Sadly, just before he was due to join, his eyesight suddenly deteriorated so he followed his second interest, maths, into an actuarial career in pensions management and then into systems management.
We were lucky to find out that my eldest son's special interest was music - I bought him a small keyboard when he was a toddler and he was reading music by the time he was four and a half. He is now a concert pianist.
Son number two was very keen on both cooking and martial arts. I used to encourage him in the kitchen. He tried being a trainee chef but the pressure was too great. He now manages his own WingTsun school.
My daughter loved horses with a passion and volunteered at a riding school for the disabled. She also loved history and languages.
One of my twins has a passion for sport, the other for animal welfare, especially marine, both adore computer games, as do I. Had they been around when I was growing up I might have had a very different upbringing!
I personally like the control and predictability of computer games. So much better than real life!
You do realize you have the "Academic Aspie" strain running in your family... and that some Aspies are not like this, and don't have typical interests either... you know that right?
My father's side has the Academic type... my mother's side does not.. in fact, quite the contrary! I figure I got my lack of academic ability from my mother's side, but I'm still left with Asperger's.
Not the best combination 
Oh, Batman, why do you say that?
None of our boys are in the least academic; of the older two, one went to agricultural college and the other to catering college; our daughter is the first member of either family to go to university. It was pure good fortune that we found careers to suit our personalities.
I think anyone will eventually find something that they are good at, even if it takes a lot of trying different things first.
In my family we do tend to be a bit idiosyncratic!
I'm learning HTML and website stuff at
http://www.w3schools.com .
It might be frustrating along the way but I figured I should just start trying it out.
... exactly why do many aspies like to learn about Star Trek? There is taekwon-do which I've got the impression of is very popular among aspies lately, someone said it is because it is straight-forward.
or maybe it's just to kick NT a@!
personally though i really can't understand star trek or why aspies like to learn about it but if they like it beam them up scotty!
Heh, love star trek here, hehe Jadzia Dax off DS9
I guess Odo's some kind of aspie alien ;p
makes my spine turn to jelly i'm sure..