Unusual Responses to Questions

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Ok, in Drama I've noticed that my responses to questions are often completely different than what everyone else's are. Here are a few:

Q: Why do people to choose to become actors?
Someone's answer: To make a lot of money.
My answer: Because they love it. (this is probably one of my more normal answers)

Q: What is art?
Someone's answer: A way to express emotion.
My answer: A display of creativity.

Q: How do you display emotion on stage?
Everyone else's answer: By recalling an event from your past and dwelling on that to bring out the emotion.
My answer: By completely loosing myself and becoming the character (This answer doesn't really seem to be very aspie either, seems a little bit anti-aspie, but maybe it is, it was certainly different from everyone else.)

That's all I can remember for now.

Also, my critics are sometimes a bit odd. In one scene a where a woman reveals to her husband that she is having an affair I suggested that the actress should break eye contact during the delivery to suggest shame, however my drama teacher wanted her to make more eye contact. I guess I shouldn't be allowed opinions on body language, lol. Another time someone was giving a monologue where the they portrayed a compulsive talker, and while many people wanted her to talk slower to increase clarity, I wanted her to speed up to suggest hyperactivity, and my drama teacher agreed with me, so not all of my unusual opinions and suggestions are rubbish.

Your responses don't sound unusual at all to me, and that suggestion to break eye contact for that scene was good. But hey, I'm no actor, so I wouldn't know.

I think they are fine and in fact very appropriate and smart-sounding.

I didn't say they were wrong, they were just different from what everyone around me was saying.

Well perhaps because you are much smarter/mature than your peers.

Probably because you can see through the BS. Many people don't know what they actually want, they only think they know what they want (and it's what "society" deems appropriate to want).

Asperger's can tend to make us nit-pick and over think things that in light of the "bigger picture" aren't really all that important. I see what you're doing with these questions about yourself as along that line.

You're answers aren't all that different from the others. You're suggestions to your drama teacher seem like good ones. Sometimes your suggestions will be used, and sometimes they won't. That's life.

I don't think this difference you see is really a difference at all. This is the kind of thing pretty much everyone goes through at some point. The one thing about this that I can see may qualify as making you "different," is the fact that you're thinking about it enough to ask for opinions on it. There's nothing wrong with that though. It's the fact that you are questioning it so much that seems Aspie to me, not what you are questioning.

Realistically, If anyone wanted to enter this field for money, fame, bragging rights and can't truly carry out the role wouldn't be very successful.

A drama student almost has to love it, to be commited.

Your answer isnt at all unusual - you understand why someone wants to enter drama - beyond the money and potential celebrity status.



Both these answers arent unusual, and I'd personally say they're both normal and would expect them as an answer to this question.



Stereotypically speaking: Some would expect an aspie to answer this question with the 'everyone else' answer however, again, I'd say both answers are correct - getting right into the part is required.

We're all unique, don't over analyse your opinions - in groups of people most people may have different answers and they may all be accurate answers - group answers are really just a collective set of answers.

I thought I'd ask an NT the first question to see what she would respond to, and she said the same answer as you.

Maybe.

I guess this is probably the case, but I feel that I say weird stuff a lot.

You shouldn't think that what you say is weird... Your answers were certainly in no way weird, if anything they were sensible and you are showing that you are truly thinking about this.

Also, weird isnt always a bad thing. A regular answer could be "OMGosh, I wanna be a celeb" That's not a weird answer, still doesn't necessarily make it the right answer (because you've truly got to be in it for the right reasons).

I'm sure you do. I'm not questioning that. I questioned a lot of things after learning for certain I'm on the spectrum. Some of the things I questioned were a lot like your own questions. It's natural to wonder which parts of what we see in ourselves is Autism related and which are not. It's part of the exploration process I think we all go through. I think most of us over think some things, but it's just part of who we are. In a way, I think we have to do it.

Hmm you sound a lot like a few of the art students I know, not unusual answers at all. For artists at least.

it seems that you actually thought about your answers, everone else just parroted what the other person said.

Your answers did not seem unusual, but showed that you thought about them.

I agree with the break eye contact thing, unless the character's confession was out of anger (like you made me do this) instead of shame.

It is not anti-aspie to immerse yourself into a charcter...we do this everyday when we are forced to socailize in the NT world. Many an aspie has spent so many years playing the role others wanted them to be, that one day it dawns on us that we dont know who we really are. I went through that in my sr. year of high school. It took me years to find myself completely.

Acting is one of our high points because to us socialization is all an act on the world's stage.

Jojo

The scene was from Betrayal.