Since this is the Misc. Interests forum, I guess I should ask here. I am aspie and also like to compete in Speech and debate tournamnets. I like to compete in Student Congress the most and after that LD, Parli, and panel in that area. I seem to be good at making speeches and thinking of logical arguements to debate others. In the past, I used the same technique to make it very hard not to take me to magic the Gathering tournaments. So far I have competed in two tournaments and gotten first in student congress, 3rd in panel, and honorable mention for LD. Are there any other Aspie debaters out there?
I was an individual debater in high school. I was pretty good, and I did enjoy it, although I found delivery of prepared speeches much less stressful than extemp. I always lost points for eye contact, though.
I have done one prepared speech so far and didnt like it. The one thing that I dont like is doing team debate like public forum or parliamentary deabte
I am often orally active in class and I have had some good thoughts shown when we discuss. I once said this in a school-debate:
-I've heard someone in this debate say that 'some evil guy' escaped his punishment. Well, punishment is meant to prevent someone to repeat something. 'Some evil guy' killed himself, I think that is a good enough punishment, he wont repeat himself.
I really like debates too, i consider a debate as an intellectual prize fight. I live in Sweden and unfortunately, we don't have debate contests ion our school. At my present school we debate, but the emphasis is on agreement more than antagonism. Boring, if you ask me.
my humanities 10 class is the source of more debate than I've seen in most of my school years- we've got me, another guy with similar opinions and means of voicing them, and a guy with views pretty much directly opposite ours. Not to mention that our teacher is more "politically correct" than most of us, and will sometimes join in when topic such as "moral imperialism" are mentioned...
great times, great times...
I've never had a problem with public speech or performance of any kind. Apparently, those neurons never connected for me.