Avatars and autism

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i'm not sure to me alot of nts tend to have offensive avatars, are you talking about just here or anywhere. or just non sex related\offensive\stupid avatars that most people tend to have. i honestly amazed at what i find every day online.

as for my avatar i have alot of varibles, could be a character i like. right now i need to make one of cullen, harkness is still a fav right under xemnas. but mostly i like to have my avatar represent how i'm feeling. i have give or take 20+ avatars of xemnas all with i unique expression for just about every emotion or overall feeling. i have one of him laughing as a happy\playful mood avatar, several of him glaring as the angry\annoyed avatar, a few of him with a sad look as the sad\hurt avatar.

i want to do the same with harkness, cullen, anders, and others that i can't think of at the moment. the xemnas ones i found on photobucket.

the others except anders are going to be tough, it's hard to get alot of expressions from a character, that has a straight face 24\7 [harkness] or hardly gets any screen time [cullen, i'll have to pull from da2 as well here but he is more or less like harkness in that game] anders has more then enough expressions to pull from.

so yeah my avatar needs are complicated.

i haven't gotten around to it yet because there is a terribly long process to just get one.

Willow Rhiannon is an amazing name. Xander's not too bad, I think, but there are definitely better.

I used to have avatars that related to my obsessions. They were Kit avatars from A League of Their Own and then Dottie avatars. Before that, they were Benny & Joon avatars. Now I am using my baby. I will probably go back to Dottie or Kit real soon. When I first joined here, I used a Calico cat avatar which kept disappearing because I had a Calico cat. Then for a while I had no avatar until 2007 and it was a Benny & Joon one.

To answer your OP's question, no. Avatars are just avatars and they don't mean anything regarding NT or AS.

Same with me. That's why my "Mad Hatter in the Tardis" avatar is my favorite, because two of my major special interests are Alice in Wonderland and Doctor Who. I have other interests besides those, and I may make avatars combining them as well.



I did the exact same thing using avatars of the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp version) all throughout last year.

I use cat avatars because people keep telling me they like my cat avatars


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cool, i would keep it up with harkness but i have 4 avatars with the same expression, i need to record the game and just be really nasty\nice\etc in the game to get him to come out of his *dead to the world* look which is handy that i have him as a modded companion.

cullen is a modded companion as well but the dialoge parts are unanimated and unvoiced. it's still a beta mod.

wow, I always thought you looked like your previous avatar. If it wasn't you, then who was she?

Emma Caulfield, playing "Anya" from Buffy, and she was holding a sword. It was from the series finale.

What an awesome name!!


Topic: I use avatars that are connected to my interests. I love turtles and I like TMNT, hence my WP avatar.

Thank you both!

Yesterday at the pool, a little girl kept trying to call her 'Will' and she very politely corrected her. "Willow. My name is Willow. I'm not a boy..."

I guess we'll have to work on the concept of nicknames...

My avatar isn't an animal today.

My avatar is Väinämöinen, who was an odd Finn...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4in%C3%A4m%C3%B6inen

I stumbled upon this very epic sad face yesterday, so I drew my own, modified it etc.

it would be difficult to find an appropriate icon depicting my most prominent special interest, which is alternative medicine and psychology practices. So I chose my second most prominent special interest, Anime. The character on my icon is one who I have a massive crush on: Naruto's Sabaku no Gaara, translated Gaara of the sand waterfall. Most neurotypical acquaintances have labeled me as childish and "geeky" for having a crush on him, though i am 20, but most of the aspies i have met are not surprised, some actually have an anime love interest of their own!

My avatar is my 2 or 3 yo self. I admit I'm selfish and have a touch of narcissism, and I'm still a kid to some degree inside. I don't have a long history using avatars, so I still have to think about it.

I've never noticed this as an overarching phenomenon. In fact, it seems to me that avatars tend to follow the subject of the board as much if not more than anything else.

This thread is from a board focused on science-fiction novels and movies:

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/53 ... ories.html

This thread is from a board that specializes in politics:

http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/view ... 2&t=132068

I think they may have a rule in place that requires avatars be only of current or past political figures, so maybe that's not quite a fair example...but nobody seems all that upset about it, either.

I'll bet most people could figure out purely from avatars which board is which. And there seems to me a certain uniformity on both sites, though I'd be hard pressed to say exactly what it was on the SF board.

Besides, how can you determine who's NT and who's on the spectrum from reading a few posts? Never mind how you would separate both groups from folks with a disorder like major depression, ADHD, etc. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I don't see how it could be.