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millie
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31 May 2009, 5:38 am

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extrovert. ASD. hermit. :)


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31 May 2009, 6:00 am

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That's it. I can identify people I know and care about, but I won't recognize people I rarely talk to from their faces. I suspect my propagnosia would only be mild under other circumstances, but what's making matters worse is my total inability to read facial expressions. A face that's smiling looks totally different from the same face while frowning or making any other expression, so I have actually difficulties to recognize them as the same face/person. :/ I cope with paying attention to their style to identify people, but of course that's not very accurate, and a new hairstyle always takes some getting used to.

Interesting, i'm like this as well. Do you struggle with voices as well? If i've never heard someone while they were happy before, then i cannot identify the voice



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31 May 2009, 6:03 am

millie wrote:
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Me too. :)


me too.
extrovert. ASD. hermit. :)


You describe me so well, millie. ;)


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31 May 2009, 8:51 am

Michjo wrote:
Interesting, i'm like this as well. Do you struggle with voices as well? If i've never heard someone while they were happy before, then i cannot identify the voice


Yes, it's one of the reasons I can't use telephones. People constantly change the pitch and expression of their voice, and it confuses me to the point I can't follow the conversation anymore. It sounds like several people talking at once. (Needless to say, people consider MY voice monotonous. ^^)



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31 May 2009, 6:18 pm

I am a semi-extrovert Aspie with ADD


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01 Jun 2009, 5:02 am

I am an extrovert aspie with a short attention span at times. I dont find extroverts exhausting..

What I do like though is to go out with a bunch of people and be talking to them for a while and then after about half an hour, go outside and stand there by myself for a while. It is suddenly quiet and I get this feeling, like I am an observer and the world is going by and everything is ok. It is sort of like being in the eye of a storm.

Then I go and rejoin people again and I feel completely renewed. It is not really that I am tired of being with people but I like to intersperse being with people with being on my own. When I am with people I am always walking off on my own and then rejoining them...



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01 Jun 2009, 10:31 am

I used to believe that I was very introverted. As a youth, I definitely was more introverted than I am now. Now I consider myself to be an ambivert.


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