Magneto wrote:
When someone is diagnosed with Autism, thehy don't have their brain scanned.
I'm asking for autistic traits to be listed. The actual ones, not those used by the psychiatrists.
If you want to remain an Aspie, then you can conciously decide to maintain that aspect of yourself. Difficult, but not impossbile. If an Aspie can imitate an NT, then they can stay as an Aspie even with the full force of a 'cure' bearing down on them.
The Aspie/NT contrast you make is interesting. What does 'imitating a neurotypical', or rather, a non-autistic, even mean? So many non-autistic people are very unsociable or even anti-social by their own personal nature. The (relative) challenge I see before me is not so much geared at trying to imitate non-autistics, as much as it is attempting to fashion myself a relative adept-ness at social interaction with regard to everyone whether they aren't or are autistic or neurotypical or otherwise.
It's also not clear to me what you mean by "interested in NT stuff" in your first post. NT interests seem as diverse and all-encompassing as interests of autists, from where I'm standing.
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