Can you become autistic from being on Wrong Planet too much?

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I was using it in a half-metaphorical/half-literal sense, in reference to the way I talk to people.

So a mental database?

Yes, in my brain.

Like, I was talking to my niece about her college classes, and I pulled up some stuff I remember hearing about in relation to college - which were news stories related to disability discrimination. I used those stories instead of actual "small talk" about what it was like for me at college.

When I went in for my AS diagnosis, I wrote several pages of why I thought I was autistic. I didn't need to refer to them or give them to anyone, but I was able to recite that information from memory because I had organized it all under the mental category "History that supports a diagnosis".

All I'm going to say is...

lol.

While I find the phrase "in my brain" funny all on its own, I wonder why?

I know, the double quotations mean that I'm using the term loosely, much like someone who curls there index and middle fingers inward while saying "quote, unquote, <the word being quoted>" to imply a hidden or loose meaning for the word. That might be a regional thing for the US.

People like to sometimes point to their head and dramatize by saying "in my BRAIN", so you might be associating the phrase with humorous moments like that, maybe subconsciously or something. I don't know if exaggerated body language is particularly humorous for most aspies, though.

If I were to make it a file, I'd probably start with a spreadsheet. I love spreadsheets.

No, but you will wind up endlessly depressed and negative, and probably end up being an atheist.

Really? So do I! What's your favorite spreadsheet on your computer?

My favorite spreadsheet on my computer is when I filed my federal taxes! <3 <3 <3 j/k

Another person was talking about fixed eye contact I think. I thought I have read autistic eye contact can go the way of none or less eye contact but also fixed stare. I don't think fixed stares is an NT trait which I think I read above. It seemed like the person was describing fixed staring of their child but I am not sure of that particular person.
I do the looking down a lot but last year I was told I do a fixed stare too which i didnt think applied to me. I happened to take a picture of myself today and showed this person my face and asked if this is the fixed stare she is taking about and she said yes.
Ever since I was first told about the fixed stare I will do with eye contact it has put me in an odd situation where I know I have this fixed stare when looking and then this other tendency to better think and feel normal not looking at peoples faces when they talk to me (especially when it is more in depth, like talking, and not greetings or thank you stuff). It has not been for the better at all and I wish I never knew. Now it is my head. I have thoughts that I should care less and do whatever I feel like at the moment since I have this blank fixed stare anyway.

Heh. More related to my interests: Making character sheets for roleplaying games. I can use the cells to do necessary math on the fly and make it look all pretty for printing.

I liked databases less, but it may be that when I took the database class it was just a bad class.

Oh, cool, role playing characters. What kind of role playing games are you into?

Databases are just evil. They really aren't worth the effort unless you plan on storing huge amounts of data or you plan on doing advanced custom data searches and manipulation (Or if you're making a data-driven website).

I've played so many. The ones I've made excel sheets for were mutants & masterminds and Vampire: The Masquerade.

They weren't that great compared to stuff people did later, but they were nice, especially for tracking points and xp.



Exactly.

WoW's database used to fall over and die all the time. People would get stuck trying to harvest herbs or minerals or looting a dead mob because the game would do a database call and the database would say "Piss off, I'm on a break. Forever."

In response to the comments on my previous post:

The whole eye contact thing is much more complex than that. Initially, I never had any problems with eye contact, and theory of mind as well. My discomfort with eye contact seems to take the form commonly found with social anxiety, and not autism.

I'm almost 90% sure that if I wasn't as shy and introverted as I am, I wouldn't have any major communication difficulties. If I was more outgoing, there, problem solved. Up until I discovered WP I was fighting a constant battle with myself to become more outgoing. I knew it wasn't healthy to be socially isolated, and so I tried my best to participate in smalltalk and whatnot. I never "burned out," and many times, I actually enjoyed such social situations despite being hesitant at first.

Then I find this website, and, as it's been stated before, I found permission to be myself, so to speak. Yes, I have autistic brain wiring, I already knew that. But from the outside, WP has made me more visibly autistic, to the point of excessively unquestionable aspieness. Much of it was an act. I didn't just think "I'm an aspie, so it's ok for me to act like this." I thought "I'm an aspie, so I need to act like this."

Crazy, but true.

I should have linked this sooner, as it's relevant:

http://archive.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html

There's nothing wrong with going through that as a phase.