There are so many contradictory AS stereotypes.

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12 Feb 2007, 4:46 pm

Aspie_Chav wrote:

One view I had from a professional that most of the time, aspies are incapable of discovering that they have AS by themselves.

Most of the time, yes. He/she shouldn't have made such a blanket statement though. A lot of aspies I know figured it out themselves and then just went for a dx [I'm one of these people].

It's not too hard to see that you're different from other people though.

Well, it just goes to show that we don't come from some kind of "Aspie cookie-cutter". LOL..I can just imagine a machine making little aspie-people cookies. an interesting image to be sure....;^)

We also need to remember that most psychs are NT....although I did have the pleasure of speaking at length with an aspie psych...he was a very interesting man.

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13 Feb 2007, 12:56 am

Dart wrote:

There's the stereotype that we have low self-esteem and think our lives are worse than everyone else's, and then there's the stereotype that we're snobs who think we're too good for everyone else.
There's the stereotype that we respond to questions with a terse "yes" or "no" answer, and then there's the stereotype that we give unnecessarily lengthy answers to everything.
There's the stereotype that we're completely emotionless, and then there's the stereotype that we're all just a bunch of whiners.
There's the stereotype that we're usually apathetic, and then there's the stereotype that we get annoyed over every little thing.
There's the stereotype that we don't try hard enough to make others like us, and then there's the stereotype that we try too hard to make others like us.
There's the stereotype that all we're good at is rote memorization, and then there's the stereotype that we're highly creative thinkers.

Here's my list:

1) I'm neither, although I have been down in the dumps several times and I tend to get obnoxious about my story. This former applies to thinking about what's been happening to us, and the latter can happen because we're good at our obsessions.

2) Neither, with a hint of droning on. The former applies to nearly any question, but the latter can happen if it's a question on obsessions:

"What do you think this rock looks like?"
"I think it looks like a plus sign. Rocks can come in many shapes because of the way they are carved by the water, although the rate of it's dissolving process depends on what the rock is made of, and also how acidic the water is. Some rocks are also poisonous, like Lead, so I wouldn't advise you to suck on pencils, okay?"
"..."
"What?"

3) I've been known to be very expressive! This can happen only because we can't pick up the signs, and also our 'emotion tubes' are a bit clogged up, making less emotion come out. The whining happens in situations when we feel life sucks.

4) I'm the latter. It's the same situation as above, we only get pissed off because we express anger more loudly than others (to compensate for other emotions being clogged up as explained earlier).

5) I have no idea where the grounds for this one comes from! I'm neither.

6) We only memorize stuff that we're interested in, leading to the Rock Scene above. The highly creative part comes from thinking out of the box. It's no surprise, really, because we think outside of the box because we were born outside the box, and happened to venture into it! I'm both.

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13 Feb 2007, 1:15 am

KBABZ wrote:

"What do you think this rock looks like?"
"I think it looks like a plus sign. Rocks can come in many shapes because of the way they are carved by the water, although the rate of it's dissolving process depends on what the rock is made of, and also how acidic the water is. Some rocks are also poisonous, like Lead, so I wouldn't advise you to suck on pencils, okay?"
"..."
"What?"

But lead pencils are made of graphite!

Is there a stereotype about always correcting people? :wink:

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13 Feb 2007, 1:22 am

Saepius wrote:

KBABZ wrote:

But lead pencils are made of graphite!

Is there a stereotype about always correcting people? :wink:

Probably! I do that a lot sometimes. It's still actually called lead in the business.

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13 Feb 2007, 9:20 am

Saepius wrote:

KBABZ wrote:

But lead pencils are made of graphite!

Is there a stereotype about always correcting people? :wink:

Indeed that is a stereotype....once again we are proving that people in the spectrum are just as unique as those outside it. ;^)

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