Would you as a aspie be accepting of another aspies....

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special interests?

If someone with aspergers came up to you and started talking physics, or about sports cars, would you pay attention, or would you be more obsessed over the fact that they are a aspie? I mean, if you have no interest in physics or sports cars, would you just lose interest the same way you would if anyone else told you about physics or sports cars?

(darn my capacity to ask weird, thought provoking questions...)

I personally might be too interested in the fact that they are another aspie and pay more attention to their body structure, way of speaking, clothing style, etc to even know they are talking to me...

But if our interests match.... oh goodness... we would never stop talking... (happened in middle school BTW... my best friend had.... i would guess high functioning autism. and away we went about astronomy! He would always sit with a group of people, and I hate sitting with more than one person...)

anyways! What would you do?

No, I'm too preoccupied with what is going on in my own head at all times. Doesn't matter who it is, I'm not interested.

I'm interested in everything anyone says. I like when they know more than I do so I can't skip ahead.

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I spend enough time telling people about my interests that I try to listen to others talking about theirs.

Unfortunately, sometimes their interests really are not interesting to me.

I am normally fascinated to hear about other Aspies' special interests. I've always enjoyed that as part of what life as an Aspie (to me) is all about.

Depends. If female, and if she's pretty/sexy, i'd stick around, whether she's talking or not, whether she's aspie or not. If she's talking about anything i like, i'd probably listen, if she's talking crap, like family and brats, i'd tune her out. If it's a guy, i give a s**t anyway and just move on.

I know more about the IT department of a bank, possible applications of Tesla's theories, and various programming languages than I ever expected to know. That's 3 different aspies' special interests. For starters. I dealt with L's special interests filling up the house, the yard, everywhere with stuff that might someday have a use but never actually happened.

Yeah, I listen. It would have been nice if they listened to my interests, but that is rare. Hmmm....could be why there are 3 exes. There are other reasons, but that's part of it.

Yeah, if I felt I could learn something.

I give fellow aspies much more latitude to talk about their special interests as a lot of the time they do not give me latitude to let me talk about mine but thats the differences in the spectrum and I accept that because we cant help ourselves.

greatly depends on the person and subject. like my friend Jacob he can talk about anything n im 100% transfixed upon him but my friend Jaedee, well we actually get at like "okay im really not interested shut up now please" situations...

Long before I knew about Asperger's, I always liked aspies, and if one would actually talk, I liked to listen. I like learning new things.

I agree with nat that nothing about sports is ever interesting. However, lots of other things I'll listen to, whether or not they're an Aspie, if they know their stuff. I'm actually relieved, because then I won't have to think of things to say that might draw out their interests. I found out years ago that talking too much about things _I'm_ interested in just turns people off, usually, so I'm careful about that.

I actually met a child with AS, and his father refused to believe me when I told him he might have AS. He kept going on and on about trains. It was frustrating to say the least.

I'd try to listen as I would want the same, but some subjects are really boring.