14 Dec 2008, 9:26 pm
Hovis wrote:
Anniemaniac wrote:
To this day, I still have a problem with females disliking me, even much older women seem to dislike me, which is depressing, as I thought it was just my peers, which was easily brushed off as the whole "teenage bitchiness" thing. Yet, I get on fine with most guys, whether they're my age or older. It's odd. I've never been the "girly girl" type, so maybe that's why.
I think this may give a little more weight to the theory of autism/AS being an 'extreme male' brain. Nothing could be further away from an NT female brain, with its emphasis on socializing, awareness of subtle - almost invisible - cues, and exchanging information primarily for the purpose of 'sounding out' the person rather than for the information itself, than autism. You might say that an NT male brain is somewhere between the two, which may be why autistic/AS people are generally somewhat more accepted by NT men than by women.
I don't know much about the 'Extreme male brain' theory, but from the bits I do know, it definitely rings true for me.
Growing up, I was the person who fixed things around the house when they broke. My mum could never do it when she tried, and my father didn't live with us. One of my favourite things to do was to take things apart, especially my inhaler because of all the little parts it had to it (I had the round Ventolin one). I'd take it apart constantly and analyse the parts, imagining in my mind how they worked when it was closed. I don't have that inhaler anymore, but I wish I did. It was a better toy than it was medicine
I remember taking the Hoover apart on many occasions and fixing it, too. So yeah, I'd say the 'Extreme male brain' is quite accurate for me.
It's odd, though. As I've aged, I've become more girly over the years. I'm still not your typical girly girl, however, but I have become more girly. At the same time, my ability for taking things apart and fixing them has been diminishing significantly recently.
I wonder if this means that my AS is becoming more mild as I age? Am I becoming more Neuro-Typical?
15 Dec 2008, 5:09 am
Liverbird wrote:
It's hard for them to understand a brain that thinks in spiderwebs where every thing is ultimately connected to something else. I'm constantly reminded of my strange spider web thinking patterns. I'm constantly evaluating whether it's really connected or just connected in some weird way in my brain only.
Does it take one to know one? Definitely.
Does it take one to know one? Definitely.
to be fair, in that example you can use an analogy to a P2P network, bittorent being the best one in this case (especially given th creator has aspergers and that might explain his idea)
mitharatowen wrote:
Or Jehovah's Witnesses. yeah yeah. I just picked jews cuz it was the most obvious :p
cool
15 Dec 2008, 5:21 pm
