Aspies Not Generalizers? What?!

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what on earth is "ideation"?

I, on the other hand, have been known to create very original stories. I made a sort of interactive story on the message board of one of my brother's friends. I posed as an African-American "ghetto poet" from an impoverished inner city neighborhood. I started off using Ebonics but claimed to be learning proper grammar by reading some 19th century book on the subject. I then corrected someone else's grammar. It was all quite funny.

Bizarrely, my brother's friend didn't realize it was me for months--even after I dropped hints.

I've been thinking about this for a while. For some things, I'm typically the "big thinker" of the group. I tend to be the one who sees the global ramifications of specific actions.

At the same time, I am also an implementer, and can get hung up on crafting the perfect whatever, so I get bogged down and may not be able to finish the project. Fortunately, I was the boss and surrounded myself with lots of smart people, so I could get away with that. Come up with the big idea, spread the vision to my employees, and let them run with it. Though early on, I did tend to be very hands-on and wrote lots of code myself as well as went back and optimized other people's code (which didn't make people happy), which led to crafting great products.

On the other hand, for other types of generalization, I'm very bad. For example, I never understood the generalization called "prejudice". I tend to see all people as individuals and get offended when others say all X's are Y. Like when I was growing up, I never knew what a "Jew" looked like. Even though I lived in a mostly jewish neighborhood, I couldn't identify a Jewish person by name or by sight. I still have problems with this and other racial identification.

A lot of people would say that's a good thing.

I've mostly seen it as such. At times, I've felt like an idiot in conversations because I hadn't a clue what people were implying.

Most of the AS attributes that I had growing up I learned to love. I knew I was different, and, largely I felt superior to my peers. Often I thought that I was a robot or an alien - definitely not the same type of being as those around me. I think it was the only way to keep myself from crying all the time from feeling so alienated from the world.

So when I saw the title of this website, I had to smile. And the more I read, the more I realized that I wasn't totally alone. That's very comforting indeed!

oh, i was definitely a changeling - even my mother says i was brought by the fairies (!).

i still don't know what "ideation" is, though...

Last edited by vetivert on 07 Dec 2005, 4:21 am, edited 1 time in total.

Odd that you say that, vetivert...

I had a roommate (a psycho b**** roommate, I soon after realized) who told me she thought I was a fairy. She seemed a bit delusional (which I believe she was, and possibly bipolar), so I promptly told her that "No, I am not a fairy."

Had she asked me if I were a cat, however, she would have gotten a definite "Yes." >^..^<

it wasn't me, civet! honest! i have never shared a room with anyone, so i KNOW it couldn't have been me!

Whoops! I didn't mean to imply that it was you, at all, vetivert, I'm sorry!

I was just relating the story because what you said reminded me of that.

Edit: At this moment, we both have the exact same number of posts...

432

And it's sequential, too!

yay! we are obviously twins! but you've got better hair than me.

and it's okay - i didn't really think you thought it was me, but my joke was a bit crap, so don't worry.

i do have a photo of me as a fairy, however...

Ah, whoops, I didn't get your joke, sorry.

Can we see your photo of you as a fairy?