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I might be mistaken about having Aspergers. Maybe I have 'The Knack'
See the video in the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplyCogv3to

Well I found it amusing as it described me quite well

Macazon
I think I have The Knack in the field of fine arts.

macazon Wrote:
I might be mistaken about having Aspergers. Maybe I have 'The Knack'
See the video in the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplyCogv3to

Well I found it amusing as it described me quite well

Macazon


Knack or no knack, that doesn't mean you do or don't have Asperger's.

Plenty of AS folks are in the art field.  I was *always* above my age level with both creativity and art.  But, it was also a very weird kind of creativity.  And highly perfectionistic.

I wasn't able to get things done unless they were *exactly* how I wanted them to be.  Occasionally I would let go, but then the output would suck.

I think we are quite likely to have a splinter skill in art.
Ok, I didn't realise any one would take my post seriously. I thought the video was pretty funny. May be it is more funny to me because I've always been employed as in Engineering.
I see the orginal link doesn't work any more so here's another

The Knack
Oh that's funny!
I *WISH* I had the knack. Electrical things discombobulate me.
Especially things that have to be programmed.

energeia Wrote:
Oh that's funny!
I *WISH* I had the knack. Electrical things discombobulate me.


I had a good chortle too! Thanks for that link, macazon.

I am mostly discombobulated.
Glad to see i'm not on my own.

I do write computer programs form time time to time, but i write them the wrong way i'm told. And i find it head wrenching. But i think i like the challenge.

I think i'm just a failed artist trying to create something.

Slowburn Wrote:

energeia Wrote:
Oh that's funny!
I *WISH* I had the knack. Electrical things discombobulate me.


I had a good chortle too! Thanks for that link, macazon.

I am mostly discombobulated.
Glad to see i'm not on my own.

I do write computer programs form time time to time, but i write them the wrong way i'm told. And i find it head wrenching. But i think i like the challenge.

I think i'm just a failed artist trying to create something.


Do you think the lesser-functioning Aspies out there deserve to be called "parasites" for not holding onto jobs, not functioning well socially, and that Asperger's is not a real disability...  it's just a case of immaturity and the person being a "parasite" for their family, the state, etc...?

Just curious.  I don't believe in the above, but it seems that some people do.

Batman 55, I don't believe in those ideas. Intolerant and ignorant people do. BTW, I thought The Knack was a pop group from the late 70's/early 80's.

batman55 Wrote:
Do you think the lesser-functioning Aspies out there deserve to be called "parasites" for not holding onto jobs, not functioning well socially, and that Asperger's is not a real disability...  it's just a case of immaturity and the person being a "parasite" for their family, the state, etc...?

Just curious.  I don't believe in the above, but it seems that some people do.


"lesser-functioning Aspies", "parasites" "jobs" and any of the rest of this, you are *not* quoting me; d'you just make this stuff up?

Read what I wrote again.

Slowburn Wrote:
I had a good chortle too! Thanks for that link, macazon.

I am mostly discombobulated.
Glad to see i'm not on my own.

I do write computer programs form time time to time, but i write them the wrong way i'm told. And i find it head wrenching. But i think i like the challenge.

I think i'm just a failed artist trying to create something.

If you're asking me a question, fine, but don't frame it as if you are  replying to something awful I wrote.

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