An image of Aspergers

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I went to this place and noticed a photo on the wall which was kind of odd looking. In it was a crowd of people and all of it was blurry and closed in. It was representing a phobia of open spaces. I'm not sure what you would call this, impressionism?

So i tried it myself only with Aspergers. I know it's rubbish and it only took me a couple of minutes to do but here it is...

http://i53.tinypic.com/n1se92.jpg

To someone without Aspergers this may look kind of strange and worrying. What i'm trying to put across with this photo is the piercing eyes of being in a crowd. It's sort of like something from the X-Men, when he takes his glasses off he burns whatever he looks at. Well, this is what it feels like sometimes when people look at me. You'll also notice that the only thing in focus are the people, that's because i'm focusing on what they are doing rather than the bigger picture. The bigger picture being the old fashioned street. I'm also very worried about these people staring at me.

So there you have it.

Eyes are more this
http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/freaky_spiral.htm
than cyclops red-rays for me

LOL

and Uranus, I can definitely relate to your picture. I love those kinds of pictures/representations.

Okay, I want to give a valid answer, but there was so much alarming "RED," how can I assess anything else? Or is that sense of "RED" meant to be the point?

Kind of the opposite for me. I would see all the details of the street... the red focuses on where the direction of their eyes are pointed and I don't pick up on that at all. The only time the red would work is if you have a picture of someones face directly facing you.

I saw the red lines more as representative of the invisible barrier between me and "the world", and that guy with the bald spot looks just like my one brother who also has his back turned toward me.

I can relate to the picture as well, but to me it represents me dozing off into my own little world and forgetting that I'm in public. The red lines represent my imagination starting to take over. Everything else is going blurry because I'm forgetting that it's there.

I think it would be impossible to really do, but my image would probably be an image of an ordinary object, impossibly detailed. You'd need to contain more detail than an image could contain; maybe it would zoom in on mouse-over. The cognitive tendencies--at least my cognitive tendencies--of autism tend to be like that, at least for me. If the picture had people in it, they would be irrelevant because you'd get lost in the texture of their sweaters or the wood grain on a nearby table or the colors in the carpet...

if i were to picture an aspie in a crowd...

i'd picture a hundred different types of bugs that are flying around a big building and all of them new species to the aspie. While that would be confusing in and of itself, all this noise that the bugs are creating is sending the aspies brain into over load and it's either imploding or exploding..maybe the aspies ears could shoot steam out of the sides in an effort to cool down the brain.

The second photo shows me durring a group photo this is me standing next to a good friend. Look how I slant to the left without knowing I am doing it. LoL You also get a good look at trying to talk to someone without making eye contact in the first photo. The guys next to me could not figure out who I was talking to.

I would have liked to have the lines facing me but found it hard to do, so i made a before event instead. Red was chosen because it is associated with burning, no other reason. Shooting small pins from their eyes could be another one to use.

A reverse of the picture could have me focusing on the shop signs, licence plates, trees, etc. But this is what i was focusing on at the time.

@Todesking Hilarious! I love that second photo. You look friendly and yet totally awkward at the same time.

This is exactly the first thought that I had when I saw this picture....well, except for the part about the guy with the bald spot. My brother doesn´t have a bald spot......

In addition, I also saw it like squirrelrat, because I´m always lost in my own imagination when I´m in a crowd. Maybe that´s the main reason why there is an invisible barrier between me and "the world" in the first place.

I knew that guy for two years prior to that photo I have no problems interacting with him. But by looking at that photo you would think I hated being around him.

Intersting question...

Interesting enough, actually, to become totally occupied with thinking about different possibilites all day and as a result confuse the times of my timetable and come to a class an hour later than I was supposed to... when the class was over *headdesk*

Anyway, this is what I came up with:
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2333/aspie1.jpg

Can anyone relate?

Interesting picture, actually...

It's not really like that for me though. When I go out, it feels like there is thunder in my head because it's so noisy, and everything moves too fast, and there's no time to think. If someone walks towards me, there's not time to plan anything in case I bump into them and accidentally initiate social interaction! I hide it pretty well, actually. People think I'm just distracted, an airhead, or just not listening, but really I'm trying. but there's so many distressing distractions.
Though I'm not officially diagnosed yet, this does happen, so when I go to my GP, I can mention this sort of thing to them.
NB: With noises, like a teacher shouting, it actually feels like a whole is being punched through my chest whenever they raise their voices. I sat through most of biology today with my hands over my ears.