Fascination with numbers or words?

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Any Aspies not particularly interested in numbers or who focus more on words?

I don't have a particular inerest in numbers other than a preoccupation with licence plates. I'm fascinated with words.

I find patterns in words, one small example, I saw two funeral directors one called Neeson and one called Steenson. I
went through endless rules about what letters you needed to have in your name to be an undertaker in my town.

Yeah I am fascinated by the number 5 although its an odd number its in the middle of all the other numbers and evens everything out is easier to count by and to me it looks like a happy number. Number 3 seems like a happy number to me as well but cannot be counted as evenly but it does look like a happy number as well as 9. 7 on the other hand looks like an angry number and 4 looks like a sad number same with 2. I think 5 is the coolest!

I like both.

Yes, words have always been my thing, glad to see someone else like that too though.

I have synaesthesia and like the way that the words make colours and also the sounds of them.

I have great trouble with onomatopoeia as every word to me, sounds like what it is!

Words: etymology, spelling them sdrawkcab, rearranging ehtm, rhyming them, inventing them

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Me too.

I like numbers, in particular the number 3.

Yeah 3 is a happy number!

Yeah, I'm fascinated with words not numbers. As a very small child I was obsessed with counting by different numbers but after that I was always a word girl.

Maybe us chicks are more likely to be fascinated with words.

Me too. But I also like numbers.

This is why my favorite number is 25. I took a psych class once and they asked us, if you could be any age you wanted to be, what would it be? I said 25 because it is an even odd number because if you divide 25 by 5 you get 5 and to make 25 you use 5 number 5's. I don't think this is the explanation they where looking for. Other than this I am fascinated by images and words. I like sounds and I get stuck on certain songs like right now I am obsessed with Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO because of how the music and words go together. My ringtone is the part of the song that goes "Every day im shuffling" =D

I also like word plays a bit. Like I had a hole field where a whole lot of nothing grew and a hole house where a whole lot of air blew!

Numbers as a child. Each number from one to ten has a color, gender, and personality.

Later on words.

But in differeent way. Like entomology.

Sometimes I wish i had an excuse to talk about certain subjects just because the word for the subject is fun to say out loud.

I cant remember the last time I had a conversation about: 'Molokai' (one of the big islands of Hawaii), or about 'Winona Ryder', or about 'the high chapperel'.

Fascinated with words. One thing I've noticed is people tend to have names that either befits their current situation. or are doomed to follow For instance, when you look at the news, you might come across a man with a name like Jake Gunner or Michael Glock who was arrested for shooting someone, or a woman named Nancy Maple or Jennifer Trunk who had a tree come crashing into her house, or a pilot named Henry Fell or Joseph Down whose airplane actually fell out of the sky.

The above reminds me of the movie Magnolia. In the opening sequence, a series of incredible coincidences related to the characters' names take place.

Never noticed that about names in the daily news. Though a couple odd examples like that have stuck in my mind over the years. The DC area has a local plumbing company founded by a guy named "Flood" (the Flood Plumbing Company). And there was a certain European military man, later politician, whom you mightve heard of named "Of Gaul" who was rather pivotal in the history of the place the Romans called "Gaul" (France).

Sometimes the opposite happens. One of the top stars in 'country' music today is a guy named "Urban".

I like saying Japanese words like Ikebukuro and Akihabara! Those are districts in Yokyo Japan! Also Harajuku and Shinjuku!!

Yes to both. I like the symmetry of the number 4, but i think numbers with prime numbers as the last digit look cool. I've had "6017" in my head for the last couple days after seeing it as the identification number on a city bus.

Also, I work with words for a living as an editor. "Festoon" is fun to say. Festoon festoon festoon festoon...!