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I am here mainly because of an online test called "Aspie-quiz" and an accompanying on line theory called "The Neanderthal theory of autism, asperger, and ADHD. When I read that theory, my intuition lit up inside like a christmas tree, and practically told me that this explains something I experience and have been wondering for years what the link was. The experience is that a person will feel familiar when I first meet them, or the first time I read their words, or see their photograph, or even before I meet them, but only know about them. Its weird but fortunately, or unfortunately it doesn't happen real often. On the Aspie-quiz, I come out as both AS and NT. Oh well.

One hobby of mine is learning how it feels to live inside another person's head. I don't know if I really have the right to discuss myself with you because I probably share many attributes with people who are AS, but have enough NT attributes that I don't, or yet know what it's like to be you. I am here to learn and discover.

I am now reading "Animals in Translation" by Temple Grandin. She has made a few comments about how her mind works and I am curious if in fact they are universal. The first comment is that she thinks in Pictures and NT folks think in words. She describes in great detail what it's like to think in pictures, and how when she thinks verbally it she thinks out loud, and description describes my thinking perfectly, and then she calls that typical autism.

The next curious point she makes after, or at the same time, I forget now, as she speaks of her emotions being simple and one at a time, and how she can't imagine how ambivalence would feel, she claims she has no subconscious. Like I said before, evidently I don't share all Aspie attributes.

I expect I have bored you enough with my detail. I am looking forward to reading your discussions and learning how you think, and comparing it to my strangeness. It will be nice meeting you all. I am glad I found this place.

Will

Hiya

Welcome to WP!

Welcome greetings to the Wrong Planet community, fellow-traveler Will.

I'm glad you found this place, too.

Welcome.

I also liked Animals in Translation. I don't think the neanderthal theory holds water, however. The more you find out about the history of neanderthals, the less it seems to fit.

To WrongPlanet!! !

Hmmm. I wonder what my intuition is responding to then. I guess I need to do some research on Neanderthals. Now I am curious. Can the attributes that are listed as typical autistic in the document, be considered genuinely autistic?

Last edited by willmark on 05 Jun 2009, 8:49 am, edited 1 time in total.

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