What kind of Autism/Asperger's do you have?

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25 Feb 2011, 7:34 am

Though it is to be expected to have some traits of the other selections, I believe I most closely fit #1 (intellectual but not robotic).

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25 Feb 2011, 8:29 am

I voted 1. I like thinking up ideas, I'm full of ideas and theories and so on. But I am also logical like a number 2.

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25 Feb 2011, 9:09 am

I'd like to think I'm a #1, but when it comes to new places/people I'm probably more #2. I like having my information before I get into the feel of things. To be honest, i think your selections are a bit short. Some of use are a bit more emotional/Intellectual, some are creative/emotional, creative/"robotic", etc.

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25 Feb 2011, 9:22 am

Can i have , as weird as this question is going to sound, a concrete example of what something "abstract" is?
(i'm getting a feeling that this board is starting to act as the mother i wish i had had, the one you can feel safe to ask any dumb question to instead of pretending you DO know, since everybody else seems to know...)

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25 Feb 2011, 9:29 am

I went with #1 because I am not really robotic (at least I don't think I am).

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25 Feb 2011, 11:05 am

Number two.

I am the robot Awesom-O.

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25 Feb 2011, 11:36 am

ediself wrote:

An abstraction is where you reduce a thing to a few important aspects and label and model it based on them. "Table" would be a very concrete abstraction, "intersectionality" rather more abstract. Because you call what my computer is sitting on a table, but you use the same word for what my OT had in her kitchen, even though this is here and wooden and oval and that was glass and round.

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25 Feb 2011, 12:02 pm

DandelionFireworks wrote:

If I had to pick someone to impersonate a Vulcan, it would be you. I can't think of anyone that I know is like this on WP.

My first girlfriend accused be of being a Vulcan, and I took it as a compliment. So yeah, we do exist here.

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25 Feb 2011, 2:31 pm

jackbus01 wrote:

anbuend wrote:

Obviously I still voted #3, it's hard not to vote yourself as part of a category someone has based on you.

I'm really surprised, all of your previous posts explain quite explicitly how misguided and incorrect the whole labeling thing is. It seems something you are passionate about. I would have thought you would refuse to vote and find this question offensive.

I didn't say I agreed with the categories as a whole, in fact one of the first things I did was challenge whether two of my traits even go together like that naturally. But when someone explicitly bases one on your particular traits it's quite hard to say it doesnt fit you. As for the first two categories I'm not even capable of comprehending what they mean and the last one only because he very explicitly said it was based around my traits.

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25 Feb 2011, 2:37 pm

I'm somewhere between 1 & 2

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25 Feb 2011, 4:54 pm

I repeat my routine every day. I behave and eat the same every day. I can't enjoy, be spontaneous, fall in love etc. I'm the last person you would like to see at your party. I'm this one to whom people say hello, bot! All my life I wish I was a machine. I consider myself Humanoid, not Human.
So I chose answer number two.

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25 Feb 2011, 5:42 pm

DandelionFireworks wrote:

Yet another poll! I'm doing a whole lot lately.

It seems like there's a great deal of diversity. So what's your style of autism?

They'd make really long poll options, so I'm listing them here with numbers. Pick the number that corresponds to the way you think.

1. Intelligent and intellectual. You enjoy working with theories and ideas. You're anything but unemotional, though, and probably have strong values and feelings. Your executive function could charitably be called awful. You may be asocial. I fit this category. I'm pretty sure Callista (chaoticidealism.livejournal.com) fits, too, though of course I should be careful saying something about someone else.

2. "Robotic" and not particularly interested in people or relationships. Not social, not socially skilled with anyone, autistic or not. Very logical. You aren't necessarily devoid of emotions, but if I had to pick someone to impersonate a Vulcan, it would be you. I can't think of anyone that I know is like this on WP.

3. You dislike anything as abstract as my post. You don't really "get" language, but may use it better than you understand it. You don't particularly like other symbols, either. You don't do very well at starting things off on your own, at least not compared to how well you do them in response to an external stimulus (triggered). anbuend (standard disclaimer about saying stuff about other people) fits this category. Her blog is at ballastexistenz.autistics.org and has more in-depth explanations of what I'm getting at.

Anyway, I'm SURE I've left some people out. Please speak up if I have! I want to hear from you. Please tell me if you dislike these categories for any reason. Also, please tell me if you have more information relating to these categories.

I don't fall into either. I do have emotions but my husband says I don't show them much and have a hard time expressing them. (Having anxiety or a meltdown doesn't count or crying?). I don't think my executive function is awful because I can do things. And I can be sociable but then it wears me out. I prefer to be alone and do my own thing.

I am not into having friends either or going to social gatherings but I wanted to have kids and I sure didn't want to be a single mom so I needed to find someone but he had to be the right person. I tend to be logical but I am not a robot but both my ex's felt I was.

So I am mixed with one and two but not all of it applies.

I have a hard time understanding what I am reading so I have to read it over and over to try and get it, does that count as not getting language?

I never liked categories because then it leaves people out and can make them feel bad like they are nothing.

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25 Feb 2011, 5:46 pm

Intellectual and outwardly robotic.

I obviously have feelings, but I appear 'robotic' on the outside due to the fact that I rarely express them.

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25 Feb 2011, 5:56 pm

I'm closest to number 1, but I'm not nearly as intellectual as I would like to be. I get impatient easily, and find it hard to focus on a piece of writing if it's too heavy. I can understand complex ideas, but I'm perhaps too lazy (that's not the right word exactly, more like lacking in the ability to stay focused) to pursue them in depth. This is something that has caused me a lot of frustration lately, as I would like to be able to focus better. I even want to write a book, but everything I try to write seems to come out trite and shallow compared to what's in my head.

I do have strong emotions and values, and my executive functioning is mixed at best. But I'm not robotic at all, and would like to have more social relationships.

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25 Feb 2011, 8:54 pm

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ediself wrote:

Thank you very much! So, basically, the idea of things, without any shape to them. I can't do that. I just can't not picture something, even things that are themselves abstract,and have no definite shape to them, like "something that smells like spring" will smell "like that spring when i was 12" to me, while for some people they will just "smell sort of flowery". I guess that's what number 3 means ? then that's me.

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