What do you think you would be like as NT?

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If you were NT, what do you think you would be like?

This is so far removed from my world I don't even know how to begin to answer it.

Same base personality, but better social skills, the ability to socialize for longer periods of time without getting overwhelmed, more expressive face, more inflection in my voice, the ability to drive and the ability to live and work on my own. Oh, and perhaps less obsessive interests and the lack of a need to retreat into an imaginary world.

I would rule the world - AS is the universes way of keeping me under control.

I said the other day that I'd be even louder and more opinionated - although my boyfriend did point out the reason I am loud and opinionated may be because AS removes my concept of social boundaries. I do think I'd be a very social person, also that I would be much more ambitious, bolder, and more confident. I think I can sum it up like this - if I'd been an NT, I'd have been working in marketing.

Last edited by Bloodheart on 30 May 2011, 8:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

I would probably be married with kids and a good job. My parents squirreled money away for college but I never went they spent the money on the purchase of land out in the country. I most likely would have been a social studies teacher.

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Can I change my answer?

To be honest, I've thought about it a lot, or rather, I've thought about how NT's might perceive the world, and I really can't fathom not perceiving the world as I do, as I've always perceived it this way.

I'm not sure it would be appropriate to speak of these things in an AS vs. NT context. Rather I can only talk about them in a me vs. other's context.

I've generally observed, and have been told multiple times, that I think far more than others. As the other children on the playground would run around playing, seeming to not have much on their mind but playing, I'd be thinking about things, wondering about things, and trying to arrive at answers. I can't not do this, to be honest with you. When I was question my parents on such matters, they would reply "I don't know, I never thought about those things when I was younger. I was a kid honey."

Generally from my perspective, I get the sense that most people adhere to a type of autopilot. That's not to say they never stop and think about things, but I think the course of typical development takes precedent. Most children are going to be thinking far more about playing than the things I thought about as a child, except for those instances when they are alone and have been forced into one of those dulldrums of the day where they must wait for a certain amount of time to pass and must occupy that time with their own thoughts.

NT's seem to be of the perception that "things just happen" on the matter of relationships. I maintain that this is not the case.

I imagine if I were NT I would have far more of a need and affinity for other people and I probably would have looked forward to meeting new friends on the playground, and I likely would have engaged with them compulsively without much thought on how to approach the matter.

I wonder if perhaps I might be one of those overachievers, should I have been NT, however my NT siblings seem to be of the opinion that I am the most driven and persistent out of all of us and I can't say that doesn't stem from AS stubborness, rigidity and intense interest in my endeavors.


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Maybe a shiny happy person holding hands with other shiny happy people?

I gave this a lot of thought after reading the novel Speed of Dark, a sci-fi story where an autistic man ponders whether he should undergo a cure for his condition. I'm higher functioning than the character in that book, but the story did give me a lot to think about.

It's difficult to imagine myself as NT, but I do find myself envying their social skills. And it would certainly be nice to have less sensory sensitivity, especially to noise. But I think I would probably still be the quiet bookworm type. It's impossible to picture myself as the Alpha Male, high-fiving, butt-slapping, crotch-grabbing, bromance kind of guy. Eww.

I'd hope to be like Professor Brian Cox. Intelligent man, physicist, but he hasn't the usual social awkwardness that goes with many scientists. He's quite fashionable too. And he is still very charismatic about the Universe.

My parents are the most non-NT people ever. My sister is into fashion, my brother into sports, music and is a banker. My eldest sister is an editor. And I'm so messed up by a faulty brain which has been exacerbated my medication over the years that it's really hard to see my life turn out any other way.
But still, I'm having fun. I'll just be the agoraphobic author that rarely goes out to buy cheese and see her favourite ageing singer, while bickering about how ignorant the rest of society is while stuffing said cheese into her mouth.