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05 Apr 2011, 4:18 pm

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05 Apr 2011, 8:16 pm

TTRSage wrote:
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Can you see it in the eyes of my avatar picture.


Absolutely. After all, it's not like aspies are known for having difficulty reading peoples' eyes, right? ;)


Do I detect a note of sarcasm here? Each Aspie is different and not all traits are absolute and set in stone. I know one Aspie who has a terrible time trying to read my non-verbal clues, but he expresses himself extremely well non-verbally. I have a terrible time trying to express myself non-verbally but I can read him like a book and detect those subtle clues very well. As one excellent web page puts it, "it is not a good idea to stereotype Aspies because each one is unique".


Difficulty detecting sarcasm is apparently not one of your aspie traits, haha. I was just kidding, of course. I just found it rather amusing, asking about seeing something in someone's eyes in a forum for people with a condition that is known for making that unlikely. :) Personally, I actually could not see it in the eyes of your avatar, even though reading eyes is something I happen to be fairly good at. However, it is a drawing, so I'll give myself a pass on that one!



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05 Apr 2011, 8:19 pm

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05 Apr 2011, 11:17 pm

stargazing wrote:
TTRSage wrote:
stargazing wrote:
TTRSage wrote:
Can you see it in the eyes of my avatar picture.


Absolutely. After all, it's not like aspies are known for having difficulty reading peoples' eyes, right? ;)


Do I detect a note of sarcasm here?


Difficulty detecting sarcasm is apparently not one of your aspie traits, haha. I was just kidding, of course. I just found it rather amusing, asking about seeing something in someone's eyes in a forum for people with a condition that is known for making that unlikely. :)...


I thought you might be kidding. Actually this illustrates the point I made about Aspie diversity. In my case I am profoundly affected in the social isolation, obsessions and routines areas but almost not affected at all in the communications areas (at least much less so now than when I was younger). I believe that the inability to read non-verbal cues and mindblindedness traits fall under the communications categories, which is why you noticed my NT side when the rest of me falls strongly on the Aspie side of the fence. This caused me a lot of difficulty when I was taking the various Aspie tests because I kept running into these questions about being unable to read facial expressions and similar stuff. It was not until I fully figured out where I was in the spectrum and where the various Aspie traits fell category-wise (social, communications, obsessions) that all the pieces fell together and it all began to make a lot of sense. A link to the web page I mentioned that said it was not good to stereotype Aspies follows. This is one of the best pages I have found when it comes to understanding the Aspie personality and helped me enormously during my own awakening a year ago. This link usually gets killed as clickable link due to that apostrophe, so you may need to copy and paste into your browser.

http://www.wikihow.com/Relate-to-Someon ... s-Syndrome

Here are two more links to threads here along the same lines. I just love the response from quaker in the first one below in which he says, "the spectrum is soooooooooo wide, deep and diverse". To me that sums it up pretty well.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt138461.html

Here is a similar post that I just found that seems to be saying the same thing in many more words (which I have not had time to read yet).

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt145133.html