How autistic are you?

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What do you mean market research? Marketing what?

The ability to perceive truth where everybody else ignores the Pink Elephant, refuses to see that The Emperor Wears No Clothes, etc., are NOT «Delusions» just because it goes against Conformist-Beliefs.

I want you to imagine this. Imagine someone close to you is crying and in complete tears. How would you feel then?

These are the questions which have to be asked.

I don't think a sum on a linear scale gives much of a definition of an ASD case. Each of the possible symptoms seems to arise independently, not in a consistent pattern, and each is best described on a different chart. For a quick introduction, I say "You've heard of people 'having a screw loose', havn't you? Well, imagine that there's a set of dozens of screws that control Autism. If most of them are loose, you can barely talk or function, just sit and rock. If only a few are loose, your brain can work around them, but you still have to deal with the various benefits and handicaps that the eccentric circuitry produces."
Of course, given an inborn non-conformity, a person then has a wide variety of reactions from others, many of them abusive even if well intentioned. These produce a further set of symptoms from psychological distress even in the normal tissue.

I have no idea. I may just be a social oddball.

If you want my tips on marketing, they are very simple. Make the best product, without hurting your employees or their environment, and chase all the money boys out of Google, so that I can find You. OTOH, if I see an ad, I won't trust you.
When I was trying to sell a superior product, I couldn't attract the best salesmen, because what they feared most of all was hearing their peers sneer "Well, Anyone could sell That!"

I do this too. Using repeated formal phrases is a way to be clear, and I actually appreciate people who speak in this style because I can immediately understand what your intentions are. I have observed most people speak in this way to some degree - just using idiosyncratic turns of phrase. So you shouldn't be embarrassed - everyone does this in their manner of speech to some extent and you never know, someone like me may actually appreciate the cliffnote.

Same here. I've been told this is due to the inconsistency of autism. I have been told I have a high IQ, but a very low functional ability. Which means I can understand perfectly well and it seems ridiculously simple, but once I go to try and do whatever it is, my brain cannot process. Which is extremely frustrating. Whatever I'm trying to do may be incredibly simple to understand, but impossible to actually do.

Yes exactly. Its like my mom could ask me to walk to the nearby convenience store to get a quart of milk. I could even write a detailed story about doing this. But in actuality I would most likely get lost and or step out into traffic and get run over or whatever, it wouldn't go right at all. And this sort of thing is enormously frustrating.

I too have had pdocs say I have high intelligence. Applying it in real life,practical,situations is another matter.

You are autistic... or you are not. While it is a spectrum, and this spectrum functions, it is a measure of the effects of autistic spectrum disorders. And even someone who is profoundly effected by an autistic spectrum disorder may not be "very autistic" at all...

In a scale of 1-10, I'd say that I'm a 3. I celebrate that 3 in every way that I can find to do so.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I am a 3.1416.

A little less autistic than you: 3.14159

Last edited by LaetiBlabla on 20 Mar 2017, 1:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Your not alone there. If I do have autism it would be a very very low number as I don't think it affects my life dramatically , the comorbids are the problem.

Which doesn't seem to make any sense, which is typical of the autism enigma.

well if someone close to me is crying, i obviously do not want to see them in their mysterious agony, but there is nothing i can do to make it better for them except to refer them to someone who may be able to help them.

people do not look to me for succor, because if they know me well, then they know i have no brain cells alive in that area.

i do not have empathy but i do have sympathy, and even if i do not understand the gravity of what they are feeling, i would like to give them a lift to their other friend's houses so they can take on the job of solace.

most of the time that people are grizzling over something, i see it as trivial ( the subject of their despair) but i have learned over the years not to devalue their feelings.

like my girlfriend rings up crying about how her mother is displeased with something she did, and i think "who gives a s**t? why care? just do as you please as long as it doesn't hurt or interfere with others, and whatever their attitude to it is, let it fester in their heads only"