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07 Oct 2010, 6:57 pm

Guitar_Girl wrote:
Do you ever feel like your the only one -even including out of all aspies- with a certain trait?
I doubt this, but does anyone else think this too?
Since I was really little, I have always found the letters of the alphabet either masculine (M), feminine (F), or neuter (N).
A: F
B: M
C: F
D: M
E: M
F: M
G: F
H: F
I: M
J: N
K: F
L: F
M: M
N: F
O: M
P: F
Q: F
R: M
S: F
T: M
U: M
V: F
W: F
X: N
Y: F
Z: N

Please share your stories of things you think your unique in!


That's basically a German reference...

Anyways, I have moderate synesthesia, which has nothing to do with the fact that I have Asperger's Syndrome.
Uhhh... I guess you'd have to see me in person and talk to me to point out any "unique traits" because I'm not too good at evaluating myself.



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07 Oct 2010, 7:00 pm

First declension nouns.

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07 Oct 2010, 7:01 pm

I have a unique ability to bring out the worst in others. Oh wait, thats common to most aspies.....

I have mostly non unique qualities



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07 Oct 2010, 7:14 pm

Guitar_Girl wrote:
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I have a synaesthesia that appears to be unusual (I've posted about it here before) in that while I have mild prosopagnosia, people's faces have smells to me (but only if the face is moving as in on video or in person. Not in photographs.) It doesn't seem to help me recognize faces any better because several faces can have the same smell so I still recognize people by hair, voice, clothing, being in the place I expect them to be, etc. But it can make some people difficult for me to look at or be around if the smell of their face is unpleasant to me.


I have something a little like that too. Peoples faces remind me of subtle smells....


Like cheddar cheese or earthworms?

Cool to meet someone with a quirk so resembling my own.


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07 Oct 2010, 7:23 pm

Sparrowrose wrote:
Guitar_Girl wrote:
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I have a synaesthesia that appears to be unusual (I've posted about it here before) in that while I have mild prosopagnosia, people's faces have smells to me (but only if the face is moving as in on video or in person. Not in photographs.) It doesn't seem to help me recognize faces any better because several faces can have the same smell so I still recognize people by hair, voice, clothing, being in the place I expect them to be, etc. But it can make some people difficult for me to look at or be around if the smell of their face is unpleasant to me.


I have something a little like that too. Peoples faces remind me of subtle smells....


Like cheddar cheese or earthworms?

Cool to meet someone with a quirk so resembling my own.


I cant really describe it. But the smell changes with the age of the person.



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07 Oct 2010, 7:30 pm

I have a large majority of the traits. I am still trying to think of anything that is unusual for an Aspie...

I do not eat very much.



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07 Oct 2010, 7:31 pm

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I have a large majority of the traits. I am still trying to think of anything that is unusual for an Aspie...

I do not eat very much.


Me either.



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07 Oct 2010, 7:32 pm

Ferdinando wrote:
jmnixon95 wrote:
I have a large majority of the traits. I am still trying to think of anything that is unusual for an Aspie...

I do not eat very much.


Me either.


Self-proclaimed Grammar Nazi says what?!



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07 Oct 2010, 7:33 pm

Grammar COP said me neither.



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07 Oct 2010, 7:34 pm

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Grammar COP said me neither.


You did forget some quotation marks. :P



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07 Oct 2010, 7:39 pm

Yeah? Your face.



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07 Oct 2010, 9:49 pm

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When I think of numbers 1-10 they each have their own color, mostly lighter shades or pastels, but 5 is always bright red. Once I get past 10 the numbers have similar coloring to their single-digit counterparts (ie 16 is close to 6 in color) but the colors get deeper and more vivid the higher they are. But 15, 25, 35, etc are always the same bright red.

For some reason, I've always thought of the number 5 as light orange, 7 as green, 1 as white, 8 as red, and 6 as a very dark purple. None of the other numbers remind me of colors, just those ones.



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08 Oct 2010, 4:10 am

Ya I have color synaesthesia, too. Although I don't think it has anything to do with autism. Every number, days of the week, months, seasons ...etc. have a color. Those colors are consistent and obvious to me. As far as I know both of my kids think numbers have colors, too, and one of them is color-blind. My husband found it amusing when we argue if 9 should be red or green.



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08 Oct 2010, 4:50 am

catherineconns wrote:
When I think of numbers 1-10 they each have their own color, mostly lighter shades or pastels, but 5 is always bright red. Once I get past 10 the numbers have similar coloring to their single-digit counterparts (ie 16 is close to 6 in color) but the colors get deeper and more vivid the higher they are. But 15, 25, 35, etc are always the same bright red.


That's weird, 5 has always been scarlet red for me too and it transfers its colour on some of the numbers which contain it - 15 and 25, but not 35, 45, 65, 75, 85 and 95 which I see as a composite of the corresponding colours of the first and second digit. That is, 3 - green, 4-light blue, 6- golden yellow, 7 - pink, 8 - violet and 9 - brown.



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09 Oct 2010, 5:51 am

Really? I do not have color synaethesia. It seems to be the most common.



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09 Oct 2010, 4:40 pm

I don't know if that's an aspie trait, but I have extremely sensitive hearing and as a result I'm good at lock picking. I can crack many kinds of combination locks by hearing what's going on inside.