Are autistic people wizards?

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13 Mar 2016, 11:15 am

Autistic people are neither wizards, otherkin, psychic beings, space-alien hybrids, fae creatures, Neanderthal throwbacks, nor the next stage in human evolution.

We're people - human beings; only this, and nothing more.

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13 Mar 2016, 2:29 pm

Fnord wrote:

Exactly

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13 Mar 2016, 2:58 pm

No, I prefer to think of myself as a Wizard/John McClane multi-class.

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13 Mar 2016, 7:14 pm

Autistic people were shamans during prehistoric days.

Of course, there's no proof....but I have little doubt that's this was so.

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13 Mar 2016, 7:39 pm

Decadeology wrote:

Do you think being autistic vs NT is sort of like being a wizard or a muggle? I think we *see* the world in different ways and even have a somewhat different essence of being.

Let me get this straight.

You think that you are a wizard.

Is this because, because, because,.... ....becaaaaaaause.... because of the wonderful things you've done?

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13 Mar 2016, 9:13 pm

I don't agree that we are wizards....but I do believe we have an alternative mode of thought which could prove beneficial even when conventional modes of thought don't provide the benefit.

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14 Mar 2016, 6:48 am

Sometimes when I see "NT's" mentioned, it seems like it is said the same way as "Muggles".

I am a wizard though. I have a magic staff and I can summon animal assistants out of thin air, when playing my online role-play video game that is.

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14 Mar 2016, 6:56 am

That metal in our blood could make telekenisis possible but other than that no.

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14 Mar 2016, 1:31 pm

Pieplup wrote:

That metal in our blood could make telekenisis possible but other than that no.

Which metal in our blood? How could it make telekinesis possible? What's your favorite science-fiction or fantasy story?

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14 Mar 2016, 1:39 pm

Wizards? Not really. More like aliens born as a human. :lol:

And what I mean by alien, I mean something-something 'foreign' and not necessarily had something to do with the extraterrestrials from a more or less advanced civilization. :twisted:

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14 Mar 2016, 2:30 pm

I have been called a wizard before but it is in relevance to being good at a certain topic or field. Many people have a stereotype that people on the spectrum have a certain set of skills or abilities that ordinary people do not have.

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14 Mar 2016, 2:37 pm

Seems like almost every time I get someone's PC up and running again, I'm called a "wizard." :wink:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", as Arthur C. Clarke famously said - so in the sense that I can apparently "tame" the incomprehensible (to the other person) innards of some computer code (magic spells), I must be a "magician" or "wizard" of sorts.

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14 Mar 2016, 2:49 pm

I've never been called a wizard.

Been called a w*ker more than a few times.

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14 Mar 2016, 3:05 pm

Trogluddite wrote:

Seems like almost every time I get someone's PC up and running again, I'm called a "wizard." :wink:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", as Arthur C. Clarke famously said - so in the sense that I can apparently "tame" the incomprehensible (to the other person) innards of some computer code (magic spells), I must be a "magician" or "wizard" of sorts.

Anyone with particular knowledge in regards to a STEM topic is a wizard to some, too bad it doesn't offer you the ability to conjure spells or dragons.

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14 Mar 2016, 3:19 pm

I am a wizard and the Arch Mage of the College of Winterhold, don't know if my autism effected this :wink:

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14 Mar 2016, 4:20 pm

Pieplup wrote:

That metal in our blood could make telekenisis possible but other than that no.

Metal?

Everyone has iron in their blood. NT, or otherwise.

Doesnt make anyone's fingertips magnetic.

But who knows? Maybe if you drink massive quantities of Geritol you get telekinetic powers!

Start eating lotsa liver too!

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