04-14-2007, 04:13 AM
04-14-2007, 04:32 AM
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I feel permanently ‘neutral’.
That describes me pretty well too.
04-14-2007, 07:59 AM
Lady Calypso, you sound Aspie to me. I hope you find this forum helpful; I certainly have. Remember, all the stuff you described that seems so odd - it's normal to us.
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Athie
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Athie
04-14-2007, 10:20 AM
Some of what you write is familiar to me, but mostly not.
I seem to be Aspie-like in a "different direction" than most, it might be because my intellect is unusually low for someone with Asperger's, so that "cold clinical neutral" aspect would be an incorrect representation of myself, so I don't often use it. Everyone tells me I'm too "impulsive, emotional, and moody" to be an Aspie.
The only thing I would say to such a person is that they're wrong, and also that nowhere in the DSM-IV does it say that "flattened affect" or "restricted expression" are requirements.
If it does then point it out to me, otherwise I'm in AFF for a reason.
I seem to be Aspie-like in a "different direction" than most, it might be because my intellect is unusually low for someone with Asperger's, so that "cold clinical neutral" aspect would be an incorrect representation of myself, so I don't often use it. Everyone tells me I'm too "impulsive, emotional, and moody" to be an Aspie.
The only thing I would say to such a person is that they're wrong, and also that nowhere in the DSM-IV does it say that "flattened affect" or "restricted expression" are requirements.
If it does then point it out to me, otherwise I'm in AFF for a reason.
rossco
04-14-2007, 01:18 PM
And mate none of us are saying you aren't in here for a reason or that you do not have a welcomed place amoungst us. No two autistic people are exactly the same.
Here is a thought. Try posting a thread on any autistic trait you have. You will probably find anywhere from one to fifteen people out of twenty relate to it. What does that tell you? I have done it. An example is something that I have is hypo-sensitivity in most of my senses. My most troubling is hypo-sensitivity to pain. It is something that due to my innate clumsiness has resulted in me being very embarrassed and self-conscious about this condition. I posted about this and learnt a lot from others responses. A lot of autistics/aspies on this forum are very hyper-sensitive which I am glad I don't endure and although there were a few like me in this regard, most weren't.
Other posts I have done have had overwhelming similarilties with others.
I am not the same as anyone here and nor are you. We all have similarities in culture if nothing else and this is where AFF derives its stregnth we can draw off.
Hope this makes sense?
Here is a thought. Try posting a thread on any autistic trait you have. You will probably find anywhere from one to fifteen people out of twenty relate to it. What does that tell you? I have done it. An example is something that I have is hypo-sensitivity in most of my senses. My most troubling is hypo-sensitivity to pain. It is something that due to my innate clumsiness has resulted in me being very embarrassed and self-conscious about this condition. I posted about this and learnt a lot from others responses. A lot of autistics/aspies on this forum are very hyper-sensitive which I am glad I don't endure and although there were a few like me in this regard, most weren't.
Other posts I have done have had overwhelming similarilties with others.
I am not the same as anyone here and nor are you. We all have similarities in culture if nothing else and this is where AFF derives its stregnth we can draw off.
Hope this makes sense?
04-14-2007, 01:30 PM
It could be smart to slack the "trying to fit in", that takes alot of energy apparently.
"Sometimes, I get so afraid that I hesitate to even bend down to pick up the things I dropped because when I move, people laugh at me. "
Remember that myself. I found that instead of bending myself I would just lower myself to the thing I wanted to pick up.
"Sometimes, I get so afraid that I hesitate to even bend down to pick up the things I dropped because when I move, people laugh at me. "
Remember that myself. I found that instead of bending myself I would just lower myself to the thing I wanted to pick up.
04-14-2007, 02:10 PM
Hi and welcome.
You sound Aspie to me too and I can relate to some things but not others, as a few people have already said.
Hope you find this forum as useful as the rest of us do, I've certainly learnt stuff I didn't know. And probably helped a person or two in return.
You sound Aspie to me too and I can relate to some things but not others, as a few people have already said.
Hope you find this forum as useful as the rest of us do, I've certainly learnt stuff I didn't know. And probably helped a person or two in return.
rossco
04-14-2007, 02:38 PM
G'day Mahler5. Welcome. Hope you too find friendship and information here.
04-14-2007, 03:10 PM
welcome 
04-14-2007, 03:34 PM
Welcome to you too Mahler5
04-15-2007, 05:40 AM
rossco Wrote:
And mate none of us are saying you aren't in here for a reason or that you do not have a welcomed place amoungst us. No two autistic people are exactly the same.
Here is a thought. Try posting a thread on any autistic trait you have. You will probably find anywhere from one to fifteen people out of twenty relate to it. What does that tell you? I have done it. An example is something that I have is hypo-sensitivity in most of my senses. My most troubling is hypo-sensitivity to pain. It is something that due to my innate clumsiness has resulted in me being very embarrassed and self-conscious about this condition. I posted about this and learnt a lot from others responses. A lot of autistics/aspies on this forum are very hyper-sensitive which I am glad I don't endure and although there were a few like me in this regard, most weren't.
Other posts I have done have had overwhelming similarilties with others.
I am not the same as anyone here and nor are you. We all have similarities in culture if nothing else and this is where AFF derives its stregnth we can draw off.
Hope this makes sense?
Here is a thought. Try posting a thread on any autistic trait you have. You will probably find anywhere from one to fifteen people out of twenty relate to it. What does that tell you? I have done it. An example is something that I have is hypo-sensitivity in most of my senses. My most troubling is hypo-sensitivity to pain. It is something that due to my innate clumsiness has resulted in me being very embarrassed and self-conscious about this condition. I posted about this and learnt a lot from others responses. A lot of autistics/aspies on this forum are very hyper-sensitive which I am glad I don't endure and although there were a few like me in this regard, most weren't.
Other posts I have done have had overwhelming similarilties with others.
I am not the same as anyone here and nor are you. We all have similarities in culture if nothing else and this is where AFF derives its stregnth we can draw off.
Hope this makes sense?
It does make sense.. thanks for the input.
I've witnessed a lot of similarities of traits among others here, that's for certain. And yet it appears the general consensus on AFF about me is based around my unusually impulsive, moody nature for someone who claims to be Aspie.
My brother is much more the "even, logical, neutral" Aspie (he is not DXed but he seems much more classically Aspie) but as for me, I'm a lot different. All I can say is that I don't fit the "classic Aspie" profile. So I'm asking those on AFF to look past your own version of Asperger's, and even more than that, to look past the "typical classic Aspie" and conceive that I could be a more expressive, imaginative one.
But certainly not imaginative within a social context, of course. I am very impaired in that area, and come off like a robot usually.
04-15-2007, 06:43 PM
Short answer, Yes.
04-15-2007, 06:50 PM
Welcome, Mahler5 and Lady Calypso von Kire.
In a way, I envy those of you who find out about AS while very young. I was 29 when I first heard of it, and then went throught the process of reading about it and thinking "that fits" to alot of the traits. It's good to know now in my thirties, but it would have been really useful when I was in my teens and twenties. It would have let me make better-informed decisions about what kind of jobs to apply for and what kinds of friends to seek.
In a way, I envy those of you who find out about AS while very young. I was 29 when I first heard of it, and then went throught the process of reading about it and thinking "that fits" to alot of the traits. It's good to know now in my thirties, but it would have been really useful when I was in my teens and twenties. It would have let me make better-informed decisions about what kind of jobs to apply for and what kinds of friends to seek.
04-15-2007, 10:21 PM
Now I'm just wondering how to tell my family...
04-15-2007, 10:26 PM
Yeah, it can be hard telling other people about Asperger's, especially since so many people don't understand it. For me, I've never really told anyone, except on the internet of course. I didn't even know about Asperger's until a couple of weeks ago. I thought I was just weird before that. I didn't know why I was the way I am, now at least there is an explanation.
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