29 Jan 2007, 12:32 pm
matt271 wrote:
i know 1 other person in RL who has AS and when i hang out with him, he just talks and talks. he talks about history and stuff
That's how I am. That's how both of my Aspie friends are. I am most comfortable around other Aspies- well, other extroverted, rambling Aspies. It's nice because our awkwardness just cancels out. We understand each other's conversational deficits. I have absolutely no conception how to end a conversation, and neither do my Aspie friends, but we somehow get when to end when we're together. It's, like, an unspoken bond of sorts. And since we all interrupt each other, we don't have to worry about the awkward: "Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead." That's always what I have to do with NT's. But with the Aspies? We just run each other over, and we don't bother to apologize.
As my one Aspie friend said: "When we get together, it's like a competition- see who can say the most." When I'm with other Aspies, we have "potpourri conversations." We get off-track so incredibly easily and jump from topic-to-topic that it may literally take us hours to finish a story. One of us will start to say something, but the other will interrupt, and the interruption will get us on another topic- until the next interruption. And the lack of eye contact is also nice...
-OddDuckNash99-
30 Jan 2007, 3:35 am
