Did autism help boy survive hours at sea without a life vest

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it looks evil or something, the shape disturbs and annoys....I remember being afraid of the Moon even though I knew it was a satellite orbiting Earth...the look scared me....especially when it was a crescent....same for the letter 7 and 9 when I was younger...well the word 'n' too....



so do 'grown men'...apparently this gangsta con who shot plenty of niggas in the hood got scared when he went to a mountain top in a thunderstorm.....apparently the native spirits scared him....

My daughter is afraid of the hand dryers in the bathroom....I always have a wet shirt front when out in public.

ive always felt that i would feel okay facing a loaded gun.. it would hurt if it went off though

My daughter is not under the spectrum but she has a terrible phobia of public bathrooms... and I have no idea what triggered it but at school she has to go to the bathroom in the kindergarten class with a teacher with her. As frustrating as this is, I try being patient with her because I have my own set of phobias and I know how bad it can be. But anyone, under the spectrum or not can have a specific phobia or multiple phobias...

I worked with a teacher who has a phobia of flying insects, including butterflies. If a butterfly so much as came near her when the kids were on the playground, we immediately had to go back inside.

Eh, I didn't know my missing fear of death was related to Aspergers.. If that's even true.

I wonder.... I have a fear of PAIN of sorts. I have NEVER actually feared death. If I KNEW that falling off a cliff would just cause me to die, I might jump off just to be done with things, and for the fun of the fall. Are you guys and gals the same?

They ved in the SEVENTIES that hand dryers PROMOTE bacteria, etc... They are silly anyway. Maybe you, or your daughter, should take a washcloth along.

I don't blame her. I used to NEVER use public restrooms! Even TODAY, I avoid some, and others I clean up a bit before use. It is not unusal for them to be CLEANER after I leave.

But we do lack fear in situations that ALL neurotypical people would have fear. I can't think of an example right now. Someone mentioned "anamilistic" fear. We do lack that.

What is meant by "animalistic fear?" Someone fill me in, please.

Well I'd assume he means by the adjective "animalistic" is "relating to irrational impulses and impetuses characterized by wild animal behavior".

Yes, it's still vague but that's the English language for you, no other language (and I know Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Russian and Spanish) has the amount of inflections and subtle meanings that characterize English.

Oh my god!! !! Did I just sound like an English professor?

Anyway, I think that's what he means. We tend to not be overly emotional to circumstances and try to rationally figure things out.

We however have fears about rational things like fear of acceptance, fear of being underappreciated, etc, but I can't imagine other NTs not having those fears, not to the same magnitude as us, "oppressed" aspies, at least in the NT context, which is hypocritical but that's a whole new topic

floating does great think

*sigh* another relating_everything_to_autism thread. The father doesn't have autism yet he survived , the kid has survived because he is a good swimmer and he is so fascinated by this activity , any non-swimmer autistic would be afraid to death in such situation.

There's a good chance you could die if it went off.

The kid is an excellent swimmer. Humans (ASD or NT) want to survive. The kid didn't express much fear, but we don't know if he felt great fear or not. I suspect he was very afraid and felt alone after he was separated from his dad in the dark, but he lacks the communication to express that.

The whole story is a miracle and it will stay with me for a long time.