How to tell the difference between a geek and Aspie ?

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.... or are most geeks aspies ?

ive always thought, theres no one quite like me. Although ive seen a lot of geeks - poor social skills, into computers and stuff ?

But are they likely to be people with AS or do they choose to stay way from a social life ? How do you tell the difference ?

I know AS is often called the Geek Syndrome, but is there a difference ? are all geeks Aspies ?

I dunno... I'm not a geek but definitly an aspie, I do a few geeky things like Play videogames and stuff.. but i'm not a geek.

Some geeks are aspies, but not all. There are more aspies in the geek population than in the normal population percentage-wise. The way you tell the difference between a geek and an aspie is by the symtoms. If the geek has aspie symptoms, they are an aspie most likely. If they don't, then they are just a geek.

Aspies are a tiny subsection of the geek subculture...

An aspie is a geek who is so geeky it is simultaneously a super-power and extreme disability...

Geekiness ranges from middle-managers who read Tolkein (my Dad) to skateboarders who play video games (my friend) to aspies who are so geeky they're almost X-men...

It's my theory...

Cool, then I can slice through walls with my admantium claws, or pick stuff up with my mind.

Hummm...... those answers are very....... NT like

Now i know that some geek are Aspie, and that some Aspie are Geek, and that there is more Aspie among geek than among other poeple..... i still don't know what the difference is ?

Ok then tell me, what are the symptoms that are Aspie exclusive ?


I've already asked this question and i just simply been ignored (whats new ?). Is that a sensible subject that we should avoid ? Isn't that an NT behaviour to ignore a subject just because the content is touchy or uneasy (or i don't know what else) ?

Heh, it reminds me of those questions on IQ tests where they ask things like: "If all snivels are snuffles, and some snuffles are truffles, are all truffles snivels?"

Coyote, for the record, I do not understand their answers either, but I do not think they are ignoring you. More likely, they just thought you'd understand what they said.

Hmmm, well....I have soem friends/aquaintances who are geeks. By the population at large I am probably considered to be a geek. By the aforementioned guys, I am nowhere close to being a geek, since I don't know any programming languages or anything more than HTML.

I suspect that at least two of those guys are aspie, however I also know that at least one of them is not, and he's a pretty serious geek.

He:

is not averse to sitting in a stadium full of people watching a ...what do you call the event where old beat up, armored cars race and crash into each other? The cars make a LOT of noise.

Says many polite things that he does not mean at all, simply to be polite.

Cares a great deal about his personal appearance, vehicle, status symbols, and actively nurtures these things.

Makes prolonged eye contact with people, even people that he is not close to.

Takes pains to attend to family duties, for example, visiting family he hasn't seen in years, becuse he wants to get to know them or because he thinks thye would like to see them.

Has very little comprehension of the sort of obstacles and hang ups that plague an aspie- phone calls, going into strange places, breaking out of a negative cycle, etc etc. He simply cannot understand why any of these things are an issue at all.
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I think those are some of the differences. The same question has occurred to me, by the way.

I don't think the definition of a geek has anything to do with sensory issues, impaired social understanding or imagination. The definition of a geek seems to be purely centered around the obsessive interests and maybe the tendency not to be bothered about fashion which many with AS share.



No, but I think you will find that 1 out of 10 are wuffles.

I do not know anything about ruffles or snivels, except that I sniffle when I have a cold. But I do know that all waffles are yummy, and that Klingons hate Tribbles.

I have a laminated periodic table pinned to my dining-area wall. I think that makes me a geek.

No, that makes you a nerd.

Geeks are people that are obsessed with computers and stuff like that and anime, I don't really think it has anything to do with AS at all...

Well, I own four computers, two of which I built myself...

I have a lot of friends who are geeks/nerds, and I see AS traits in them, but I don't think they are Aspies. I would say the biggest difference between Aspies and geeks is the same thing that makes Aspies different from the rest of the population: empathy.

My friends and I have had discussions about what is the makes a geek different from a nerd. I have come to the conclusion that the difference is interests. These are the definitions that I use:

Geek: a person with a huge interest/obsession in history, books, movies, art, music etc. and goes against social norms

Nerd: a person with a huge interest/obsession in computers, computer games, video games, technology etc. and goes against social norms

So by my own definition, I am a geek, but I'm not a nerd.

I thought geeks were people that like to socialise but are obsessed with computers and anime..

Nerds are always doing school work and are socially "inept".

Dorks are just well, me. I'm a total goof.

I'm more of a Nerd than a geek.. I love science and reading non fiction, and I don't care if I have to spend alot of time on my own.

I am simultaneously a nerd and a geek. Bow to me now.

Can slang word even have definitions when they're not synonymns for preexisting words?