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Kitty4670
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24 Dec 2017, 10:56 pm

I want to know this.



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24 Dec 2017, 11:04 pm

From my experience dogs are more like Aspies because dogs are consistent & predictable & know routines. Whereas cats are inconsistent, unpredictable & don't fallow routines well.


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24 Dec 2017, 11:57 pm

Also cats enjoy a lot of physical contact from just about any human.

Domestic cats that is. Feral cats pretty much act like any other wild predatory animal, as far as I know.



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26 Dec 2017, 1:03 am

That's like saying dogs have ADHD. Or sloths have chronic fatigue syndrome. Or owls have insomnia because they don't sleep at night. It's normal for them because that's how nature made them. Humans, however, are about as unnatural a species can get because the majority of them are NT, and don't what might not be normal to them may be normal for another.



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26 Dec 2017, 8:22 am


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wHs5c7qSg


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28 Dec 2017, 12:44 pm

Yes, and they also play Sonic video games and collect Pokemon cards all day.



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28 Dec 2017, 12:48 pm

If we are talking about non-otherkin, non-therian cats then I typically don't believe so. It doesn't even make sense to me why some people assume that non-human animals have Asperger's and other such stuff.

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That's like saying dogs have ADHD. Or sloths have chronic fatigue syndrome. Or owls have insomnia because they don't sleep at night. It's normal for them because that's how nature made them. Humans, however, are about as unnatural a species can get because the majority of them are NT, and don't what might not be normal to them may be normal for another.


^ This...this is probably one of the best posts I read all day. I completely agree with this.


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28 Dec 2017, 1:00 pm

I'd say no, as I have two cats that are quite social. They are usually in the same room. They play and fight with each other. When I'm home they usually follow me around.



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29 Dec 2017, 10:25 am

The normal behavior for cats might resemble aspie behavior in humans.

But that doesn't mean that all cats literally have aspergers.



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29 Dec 2017, 10:41 am

Part of the diagnostic criteria is that it has to significantly interfere with their ability to function.

My neighbor had a cat with severe anxiety and digestive problems, and needed special feeding routine and meds to survive at all... That one might have had Aspergers.



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01 Jan 2018, 6:25 pm

No, other animals brains work differently from human brains.


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01 Jan 2018, 7:43 pm

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01 Jan 2018, 7:57 pm

My one cat seems to have a sensory processing disorder regarding touch.


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07 Jan 2018, 9:53 pm

So dogs are the one that have Aspergers. My cat won’t listen to me alot, she stubborn like her mom.



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07 Jan 2018, 9:56 pm

Kitty4670 wrote:
So dogs are the one that have Aspergers. My cat won’t listen to me alot, she stubborn like her mom.


Dogs don't have Asperger's either. If either cats or dogs are able to display something analogous to Asperger's or ASD we have yet to name and recognize it.


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09 Jan 2018, 11:05 pm

People think cats have Aspergers.