You know you're autistic when...

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When I'm writing to inform/persuade, my written sentences are usually grammatically correct but almost absurdly long, as though I keep tacking on more thoughts and try too many different ways of explaining something, when I should probably cut the sentence up and reduce the extraneous word count by about 25%, so I'm not writing apparent single-sentence paragraphs, like this one.

When I'm writing fiction, I can't. How or why anyone could possibly act like they can understand or conceptualize the realistic motivations, thoughts, feelings, and inner desires of multiple fake people and keep their behaviors and interactions consistent, I'll never understand. I have lots of respect for fiction writers, character designers, roleplayers, etc.

Yeah, I've usually been in the "odd/eccentric" category.
I think confidence has a lot to do with it. If your behavior is bizarre, but you're doing everything with an air of confidence, people might think, "That's pretty weird, but maybe she knows something I don't." instead of, "Wow, what a dork."
(Regarding my own confidence, I consider that I keep it pretty well for behavioral things, and even for interacting with strangers, but if a friend suggests I behaved incorrectly toward them I can fall apart.)


Makes sense.


That seems interesting. We don't get icicles here. But I saw some big ones in Colorado in November. And all the houses had frosting!


I'm reminded of this that I made after seeing too many of those simple "tree + tree = 4, tree + wagon = 5" pictures on Facebook.



I don't like phones and don't own one. But I frequently ask people for their phone number during work.
At Christmastime, a regular customer left me a mug of candy with my manager. My manager seemed a little confused when she said, "She said you didn't know her name, but you know her number," I looked at the number and knew exactly who it was. (Still don't know her name.)


I always use a stitch puller. I also mend clothes.
(It's a lot easier than clothes-shopping.)





Half the comments are an eulogy for the defrag blocks. <3

Oh, yeah. If was a man and not a cute, harmless-looking girl, I would be in trouble in that regard.

Actually, on that topic: I like sending mail, so if any of you want some stickers or baby socks or whatever I come up with, you can pm me your mailing address. :p (I've got a spare international stamp too.)


Or just sort of astonished by them. We don't have them in my town, so when I was supposed to use one in the city I didn't know how to get it open. I tried pushing the "up" light because I wanted to go up. That didn't work. So I tentatively knocked. ...my younger brother caught up with me and go it open.


Oh, I kind of like observing what new shape the chipped nail takes on.


I like to quote Bilbo: "Oh, I do love maps!"

I follow two map pages on Facebook: "Amazing Maps" and "Terrible Maps." The former shows things like language distribution or that Greenland and Saudi Arabia are roughly the same size. The latter shows things like average electricity consumption by country in Europe in the early 1800s, or locational distribution of their fanbase...by planet.


(this time I got through page 18)

Cause I relate to almost nobody here . the 2% here I am almost fond of here the other 98% I couldn't care less .

I can agree with this

I'll be friend , why not ?

You want hugs and friendship and a bit of sex but you do not want to listen to run of the mill stereotypical "nt " stories

You wonder why more autistics aren't vegan .

You think Jerry Seinfleld is one of us and there are rumors he mat be

If you've chatted with one person with autism on WP, you've chatted with one person with autism on WP

:p Yes, people have some illogical expectations.


I've noticed that. In other threads, as well.
...and on this thread, it feels like most such comments are from aussiebloke and are just depression-related.


"Thank you" is thrown around haphazardly by polite people in general.


I've been told that cats need to come to you on your own terms. So actively trying to get one to be with you is counterproductive unless it's a naturally friendly cat.


That's actually a really useful thing to teach kids: yelling makes them harder to hear.


I recently read a Stephen King quote that said great stories can usually be explained with a "what-if" statement.


Ooh, I think I know why the joints on my chair keep coming loose.





But I name my Sims after my friends, so it's more like, "Hi, this is BG. Want to play?" "I'm already playing with - um...yeah, sure."


:p Is that related? ('Cause I think I can relate.)


Urgh. Modeling clay would be more sanitary.


I usually don't see them ending, and when they do end I get really upset because I didn't see it coming and because I feel helpless and don't know what I could have done to fix it and get a sense of the inevitability that friends will always escape.
..hm, I wonder whether that's why I have so many depressed friends: they don't escape.

Sometimes I want to gather up my friends and put them in a basket and have a basketful of friends. But they're like frogs and would keep hopping out and if I chase one one goes in the other direction and they won't stay together.





Those will stop ringing after a minute if you just wait. That's what I usually do.[/quote]


Oh, wow, I've actually felt that.


This also is excellent for a kid to grow up with.


Oh yeah, that can be nerve-wracking.





I don't think you're a mass-murderer, lostonearth.


If 100 people relate to a category and you think 98 don't and you do, odds are that you're the one that doesn't match the category.


I've never been to a live concert of a well-known musician, but I think if I went I wouldn't enjoy it because it would be spending a lot of money to sit in a big noisy crowd and be bothered by songs for being slightly different from the recordings I'm used to.


Yay: I'm caught up.

This

You know you're autistic when you're in a restaurant and you're talking to a friend but you can't hear them because their voice and the noise around you has turned into one long buzzing sound, so you try to cover your ears a little to hear properly.

You know you're autistic when you walk past a couple who think they're whispering but in your reality you can hear everything they're saying.

You know you're autistic when all your special interests and the intense knowledge you have of them creeps people out.

You know you're autistic when meeting around 5 different people in one week leads to a social burn out.

You know you're autistic when you forget to change your facial expressions or forget to control them.

You know you're autistic when you ask or make personal statements of fact about people that make people angry because to them it was an invasion of privacy.

-You can talk for hours about your interests, but you become a mute the second someone tries to make small talk.

-Someone tells you they have "a lot on their plate," and you point out that they only have one french fry left.

-You can't decide whether you're a super genius or a complete and utter idiot.

-Some days, you talk more to your cat than other human beings.

-You spend the day reading every post on a 28-page thread titled, "You know you're autistic when...".

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You want to destroy humans who aren't vegan , sadly some non vegans seem "decent enough " and this leaves you confused , why didn't this so called god create this world vegan ? Vegans are far far more ethical FACT even Richard Dawkins says this one of the smartest people in the world smarter than YOU in fact ...

any one reading this ?

Thanks , nice to see I can agree with some here