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01 Mar 2013, 12:33 am

I seem to notice that we cant necessarily read NT's and its vice versa. So I think those of us on the spectrum are normal and NTs are spectrumites. Does anyone else think like this? (I struggle to understand theory of mind just like many spectrumites do, and I also notice NT's dont always get our own theory of mind/how we feel?)


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01 Mar 2013, 1:48 am

No, they are normal per the definition of normal.
I have noticed that the difficulty in "reading" each other seems to go both ways, though.


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01 Mar 2013, 4:40 am

I think it's that often, our nonverbal cues would indicate something different coming from a NT. As I got better at interacting with NTs, I also started misinterpreting things other Aspies did more of the time, if I hadn't yet noticed that they weren't NT. It's like trying to understand what someone's saying without first knowing what language they're speaking.



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06 Mar 2013, 1:50 am

Cei wrote:
I think it's that often, our nonverbal cues would indicate something different coming from a NT. As I got better at interacting with NTs, I also started misinterpreting things other Aspies did more of the time, if I hadn't yet noticed that they weren't NT. It's like trying to understand what someone's saying without first knowing what language they're speaking.

So sort of like being a foreigner who knows nothing about the nation theyre living in?


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06 Mar 2013, 2:43 am

I think the key difference is that they can at least read each other while, from what I've seen, someone on the spectrum cannot read someone else on the spectrum any better than they can an NT.



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06 Mar 2013, 3:31 am

Keniichi wrote:
Cei wrote:
I think it's that often, our nonverbal cues would indicate something different coming from a NT. As I got better at interacting with NTs, I also started misinterpreting things other Aspies did more of the time, if I hadn't yet noticed that they weren't NT. It's like trying to understand what someone's saying without first knowing what language they're speaking.

So sort of like being a foreigner who knows nothing about the nation theyre living in?


Yeah, something like that. Or like, for example, if somebody used the word "fag" and you weren't sure if it was English slang and they were referring to a cigarette, or if it was American slang and they were referring to a homosexual.