Disaster-happiness-- a correlation with AS?

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Burn baby burn

Low cortisol, high dopamine. Common in auties.

I am very interested in natural disasters, especially now since I'm a member of my local CERT ( Community Emergency Response Team) a group of volunteers trained by the Dept of Homeland Security help our neighborhoods during disasters. Being a part of CERT is so neat-it's an awesome feeling to know that when a disaster hits, you have the ability to help your community!! All the training you get in disasters, emergency medicine etc is cool, too.
Even before I joined CERT, I enjoyed reading books about natural disasters and loved winter storms when I didn't have to drive in them. This past February we got a big snow storm that snowed us in for the first time, and I LOVED it, even though we had ALOT of shoveling and snow blowing to do the next day!!

Wow, that's great... [shamelessplug]maybe you can be on the Aspietown emergency response team... check my thread in the Random Discussion forum about the commune! [/shamelessplug]

ADDer here. It sounds like something that would excite the ADD parts of your brains... I actually HATE and am totally scared and freak out about all those things due to OCD probably, but human conflict definitely draws my attention.

Ick dopamine I remember that stuff Hated the dominate side effect

I thought low dopamine was what caused ADHD like symptoms...

I think fires are beautiful, visually. However, the damage they can cause isn't beautiful; the loss of life especially is saddening.



As with the fires, erupting volcanos are beautiful, but their effect is not.



Nope. They're interesting to watch, but not exciting.



I think I've seen CSI a grand total of once (it was so inaccurate that I couldn't watch it again), so I wouldn't know. However, real corpses aren't appealing to me, nor do they look like they're sleeping. They look dead.



Still beautiful, still too deadly. If there was no life lost (animal or human), then cool (though I don't appreciate them for a physical reaction - I have none). If so, then not.



Ha, I like those warnings, but I like storms. There's rarely (very rarely) any damage unless it's an ice storm.



Depends on what happens, and no. I couldn't kill anyone like that, so why put myself in a situation where I might have to do that?



Our "riots" are a dozen people from the retirement village holding Peace signs on the corner of Main Street. I don't feel too inspired to join them... But it would depend on the riot and the circumstances at the time.



No. I wish some people would go away, but not die.



Just the opposite.



Only to see the nature in its element.



No. Fictional people in fictional disasters are ok though.



Nope.



No. I try to avoid controversy.

[quote="Ana54"]Do you love fires? Do you enjoy volcanos erupting on helpless villagers? Do floods turn you on? Do you find those beautiful corpses on CSI hot? Do you get off on avalanches? Do you whoop with joy when you hear of a major storm warning in your town? Do you hope for something to happen so that you can have some stimulation? Have you ever planned to join the military for that reason? When there's a riot downtown, do you feel like going down there and joining in? Do you wish you were at certain schools when they were shot up (provided you survived)? Do you pray for disasters, knowing that God will understand that you aren't evil? Do you daydream about being in the midst of a major hurricane? Do you write fiction about fictional people in disasters that really happened? Did you get giddy and excited while watching the latest news about the SARS scare? Are you involved in some controversial group for the controversy, or at least partially for the controversy?


1. Fires, I love fires. Watching everything burn is awesome. But it is also very devastating, and deadly, and I wouldn't wish death by fire on anyone except criminal scum.
2. Burn, burn, burn!! Just make sure that the villagers are safe, and observe the beautiful destruction of the abandoned villages.
3. No.
4. Urgh, no.
5. No.
6. It would be fun to be caught in a torrential storm.
7. War, yes suree.
8. Indeed.
9. I feel like sniping all the protesters.
10. I'd be the one killing the terrorist scum.
11. I don't pray for disasters, I don't want to see the earth ruined beyond repair.
12. Maybe.
13. No.
14. Heck yes!
15. Not par se.

I don't think it's unusual for people to be obsessed with violence, and destruction. I think that's what that Tool song Vicarious http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Tool/Vicarious.html is about. However, I think there is an important distinction between intrigue, and sexual arousal concerning death, and dead bodies.

If you like disasters, you should consider moving to Holland. We've had quite a few disaster in the past decades.

Here's a selection (there have been many more which I can't recall in detail right now):

1953: major flooding in the southwestern region of the country;
1968: an oil tank explodes in the harbor of Rotterdam
1977: a train gets hijacked for 20 days by Moluccan terrorists who are angry with the Dutch government
1992: a plane crashes into an apartment building in Amsterdam
1993: flooding again, in the south of the country, 12,000 people evacuated
1995: flooding, this time in the center of the country, 250,000 people evacuated
1996: Hercules plane with musicians crashes in Eindhoven
1999: several people who visited a flower exhibition get infected with Veteran's Disease (Legionella)
2000: a fireworks depot explodes and wipes out an entire residential block in the town of Enschede
2001: on New Year's Eve a fire occurs in a café in the village of Volendam
2002: very popular right wing politician gets assassinated by environmental activist (the strange thing is: many people actually voted for this guy even though he had already died; he was still on the list)
2005: another fire, this time in a jail