"Dry" Personality

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The vast majority applies to me, Its funny you meansion the weird humor, i always thought I had bizzar humor tho I did not think it has to do with HFA.

of course we do! this is the very definition of aspiehood.

I've been told:

That I think too much
I'm too *heavy*
at one job that *You're not being paid to think*
I'm too serious
that I should: *lighten up*


And to all those who I forgot to mention: a hearty: *I'm still doing it!*

Do people often describe you as having a dry, or overly serious, personality? Sometimes. More so when I was younger.

Are you said to be task oriented, routine following, humorless, aloof, introverted, quiet, reserved, productive, efficient, methodical, almost mechanical or robotic, and distant? Quiet, introverted, aloof and distant, yes. The rest, not so much. I don't like fllowing routines very much at all. I do like things being teh way I expect them to be, but my beahvior overall is hardly routine.

Are you slow to warm up to people? Definitely.

Are you tense and uncomfortable with the unfamiliar? Depends. If it's something I'm curious or intellectually stimulated by, no. I'm very curious and I like to explore. Mainly just certian kinds of unfamiliar social situations make me tense.

Do you have little change in expression on your face or intonation in your voice? Depends. I can be very expressive, but not always.

Do you often come across as apathetic, melancholic, or even just plain bored? Yes, unfortuantely.

Does the average person consider you to be a boring or nerdy person? I don't know. Many people have said I'm fascinating or strange in a good way, but a few have said I'm boring.

Do you prefer highly technical or academic subjects over popular culture, watching sports, celebrity gossip, and television? I used to, but perhaps nt as much now. I definitely need to self-study in a topic that's pretty intense and "high brow" like Shakespeare and poetry, but I do enjoy TV and pop culture, even celebrity watching, a bit more than I used to.

When you are relaxed and joking around, is your sense of humor a bit strange to most people, relying on absurdity, ridiculous exaggeration, irony, satire, and the occasional sarcasm? Yeah. People think my humor is vry wry and abstract.

Are you somewhat literal and not particularly imaginative most of the time? No. I'm very intuitive and imaginative, just not the way NTs are. I'm usually very literal and "on edge" in general social interactions, but I'm more relaxed, flexiable and agile in interactions with people I know and are comforable around. The more comfortable I am aroudn someone, the less tense I am mentally around them.

Do you have trouble feeling emotionally attached to other people? Yep

Does the internal world of your mind seem more real and pressing than the external world of work, education, commute, necessities, and the mysterious "others"? More real, no, even though sometimes I wish my cognitive rehearsing was reality. LOL. More pressing, not always. More meaningful, often. More coherent, yes. Safer, yes. I'm more myself in my inner world, and it's where I retreat to to reaffirm my own sense of self that I feel get attacked and beaten down certain things in the external world. Not everything in th external world I find hostile, and not as much of those things i still find as hostile now as I did when I was younger. I still have issues with social conformity and pressure to fit social expectations, and the stress frrom that does make me retreat into my inner world for time to time.

"If so, you may be an Aspie." ???

This definitely describes me, for the most part. Someone once called me boring to my face, which I was found so insulting. Now that I've been looking into AS, I realize that may be how I'm perceived just because I don't express myself the way others do.

The therapist said, "Aren't you over-thinking this?" and I said, "Hell, I over-think everything!"

I was called Stoic a lot. My sense of humor tends to be very dry. Lack of outward emotion.

Well if I am a stoic, I'm a poor one, the emotions do rage just below the surface and stoic probably doesn't fit me at this later age.
But yeah, I guess I was earlier. It was just one of the many masks.

Most people always tell me, "I'm just kidding." A lot of the time, I have to tell them that I'm kidding, too.

Well yes, but my grandfather was Dutch, schooled in England, and the dry wit carried.

We buried him, dead you know.

I used to be more serious, but I've been developing a sense of humor off of some of my teachers. However, it may involve satire or sarcasm. I'm actually not very organized, so I don't consider myself task oriented, but I do follow routines, or try to. But other people may see me as aloof because I'm insensitive, but I concede to being introverted, quiet and robotic unless you get me going on a topic I have interest in. I'm also not a people-person, so I sometimes take awhile to warm up to certain people, and most people think I'm a nerd, not that it bothered me. I used to prefer academic subjects a lot over pop culture, watching sports, celebrities or TV. It's not much different now, but I have more interest in music and certain TV shows. However, I'm still largely uninterested in pop culture, gossip and watching sports. I try to have imagination because it helps with my artwork, but I can be literal and miss jokes sometimes, and am horribly dettached from the way other people feel, and cannot sense their emotions (do to my insensitiveness). At times, my internal world does manifest itself, so I try to find a career that matches the interests of my internal world. Namely, teaching mathematics.

Fits me to a "t". And I thought it was just me......

Same for meself.

Mainly (Mostly) yes. U hacked my MedRec?

yes to everything so far.



not really. i rarely joke with other people, not because i don't have a sense of humour but because i can't think of what to say.



probably.



I try not to become emotionally attached to other people. if anythoing, i become emotionally attached too easily. There's no point in it for me.



yes.

Yes to every question except the one about imagination. I'm very imaginative.

That's something I've noticed too. I have a very vivid imagination. I find NTs very unimaginative. Maybe I just go to the other extreme on that one.