Does my profile picture make me look Autistic?

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28 Mar 2020, 5:55 pm

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I suspect that mine makes me look like Frank Finlay

See, all these folks with people photos. I was going to ask if you were Frank Finley but see he would have been 89 years old today (and you are 60 and alive). Why Frank Finlay for you?

Quite right, although I am often described as being quite frank, I am in fact Ian.

Frank was in a number of TV series and a most peculiar film in the 80's called 'Lifeforce'

I liked his lugubrious manner, dapper dress sense and hairstyle. I have been emulating this hairstyle since the late 70's and am getting closer to it the greyer I become.

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28 Mar 2020, 5:56 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:

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I suspect that mine makes me look like Frank Finlay

I am not sure who Frank Finlay is. If I saw a photo of Frank and a photo of you I would have to stare at both for a while to compare as I tend to have bouts of prosopragnosia on occasions.

He was an actor whom I thought was very good. He reminds me of Peter Wyngarde in relation to his hairstyle and dress sense.

The latter was in a few TV series in the 60's and early 70's - Department S and Jason King.

Is the photograph of you or Mr Finley?

Not me - Frank!

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28 Mar 2020, 5:58 pm

Velorum wrote:

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Mountain Goat wrote:

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I suspect that mine makes me look like Frank Finlay

I am not sure who Frank Finlay is. If I saw a photo of Frank and a photo of you I would have to stare at both for a while to compare as I tend to have bouts of prosopragnosia on occasions.

Is the photograph of you or Mr Finley?

Not me - Frank!

The photo is Frank Finlay. Ok. I get it now I think... I hope I have it right?

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28 Mar 2020, 6:00 pm

Mountain Goat wrote:

The photo is Frank Finlay. Ok. I get it now I think... I hope I have it right?

Thats right!

Apologies for confusing things.

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28 Mar 2020, 6:03 pm

Velorum wrote:

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The photo is Frank Finlay. Ok. I get it now I think... I hope I have it right?

Thats right!

Apologies for confusing things.

No worries. It is me that confuses things.

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28 Mar 2020, 7:50 pm

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Friendly teasing: Some of yours definitely do!! !

Secondary question: Is my profile picture masking or differentiating?

I don't know. I don't care. Props for having an insect in it though

represent

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28 Mar 2020, 7:54 pm

The_Walrus wrote:

I think your profile picture probably singles you out as being relatively old (at least 40) and probably a woman. It doesn’t say anything about whether you are autistic.

I don’t think this constitutes masking, because profile pictures are not coded autistic. It is just as easy for you to choose a butterfly on a flower as it is for you to choose something explicitly autistic.

Ah, so with that logic my opilionid-inside-a-wasp-nest profile photo must make me super old and super female :lol:

got it. bugs are for girls

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28 Mar 2020, 8:00 pm

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In fact, a rendition of the outside world argues AGAINST autism.

I don't know. I've always felt that my social problems exist indoors, where people have self-constructed worlds, and territories. I always felt like NTs have the upper-hand inside. I'm always outgunned in this context. Outdoors, compared only to other species, I feel like a fairly normal human. And what's more so, I am pretty good at wilderness survival.

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28 Mar 2020, 10:11 pm

I know this thread is meant in jest.

However...
My friend Rose on facebook wrote on my pictures that I had the 'aspie fae look.' Since she has lots of diagnosed friend (who are not just aspergers prior to dsm change but also autism) she says she notices a pattern.

She claimed it has something to do with the eyes ('epicanthic folds by the insides of our eyelids'). She also said there are studies about it. I did find a couple from googling.

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29 Mar 2020, 5:26 am

Once you don't follow the style of all the pictures of the people here then your profile picture makes you look autistic. It's one of the most common traits of the people here. :twisted: :wink:

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29 Mar 2020, 5:55 am

quite an extreme wrote:

Once you don't follow the style of all the pictures of the people here then your profile picture makes you look autistic. It's one of the most common traits of the people here. :twisted:

So...

if your profile pic makes you look autistic then ...its a sign that you are NOT autistic.

But if your profile pic makes you look non autistic, then...its a sign that you are ...autistic!

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29 Mar 2020, 6:29 am

naturalplastic wrote:

quite an extreme wrote:

Once you don't follow the style of all the pictures of the people here then your profile picture makes you look autistic. It's one of the most common traits of the people here. :twisted:

So...

if your profile pic makes you look autistic then ...its a sign that you are NOT autistic.

But if your profile pic makes you look non autistic, then...its a sign that you are ...autistic!

Right - but you are overthinking. Thinking to much is an autistic trait as well.
Sample: Someone asks something like 'Does it make me look autistic?' :mrgreen:

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29 Mar 2020, 6:58 am

quite an extreme wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

quite an extreme wrote:

Once you don't follow the style of all the pictures of the people here then your profile picture makes you look autistic. It's one of the most common traits of the people here. :twisted:

So...

if your profile pic makes you look autistic then ...its a sign that you are NOT autistic.

But if your profile pic makes you look non autistic, then...its a sign that you are ...autistic!

Right - but you are overthinking. Thinking to much is an autistic trait as well.
Sample: Someone asks something like 'Does it make me look autistic?' :mrgreen:

Huh?

I was just restating what YOU said. So does that means that YOU are "over thinking it"?

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29 Mar 2020, 7:08 am

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I was just restating what YOU said. So does that means that YOU are "over thinking it"?

Shhh ...

Which people on earth are even thinking and talking this way about stuff like this?

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29 Mar 2020, 8:29 am

That's the first sign that a patient is autistic.

Denial that they are autistic.

If you're not autistic then...you're just open and honest about it, and you freely admit...that you're autistic!

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29 Mar 2020, 8:37 am

The fact that one observes the outside world beyond their personal experience argues against an autistic mindset.

The fact that one benefits from what’s outside of themselves argues against autism.

A depiction of Nature is antithetical to autism. A depiction of one’s “inner demons” could be said to be “autistic.”

Autism equates very well with solipsism.

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