Fascinated with traps???

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15 May 2008, 10:51 am

There is a question on the Aspie Quiz that asks if you have ever been fascinated with traps. I never have, but does anyone have experience with that? I am confused about what that really means. Then I was thinking that as a child I enjoyed setting up my toy farm with all the fences for pastures and chutes. Maybe a fascination with fences is similar to traps?

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15 May 2008, 10:55 am

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15 May 2008, 11:01 am

mysterious_misfit wrote:

I think they're trying to figure out if you're interested in mechanical devices and examining all the intricate parts.

I think the fence design may be something similar, but on a larger scale. It sounds like you're talking about designing a working farm down to some very small details.

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15 May 2008, 11:02 am

SotiCoto wrote:

It's a traaaaaaap!

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15 May 2008, 12:25 pm

I know I was. I spent hours building elaborate booby traps in the house or in the woods nearby. Fortunately, mine were more funny than dangerous, usually dropping a water balloon on someone or something to that effect. In middle school, I got my hands on an old special forces guide to booby traps that I still have, I'm still fascinated with how to rig up some of the more elaborate ones.

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15 May 2008, 1:07 pm

i like traps too..

i can sit an watch 'home alone' anytiume!! !

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15 May 2008, 1:13 pm

That one threw me off...I figured that must've been one of the questions they mentioned would be in there to make sure you were paying attention.

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31 May 2015, 11:56 am

Old post, but I wanted to share in case a lone internet user decides to come across and read this.

Currently I am not diagnosed Asperger's, although it is suspected by my therapist and I share many traits. Anyway, as a child I wasn't fascinated by traps, but I did and still do like to take things apart to fix them. The first thing was that tomagachi pickau thingy when I was six. I also liked to make things as a child as well. I would draw, sculpt and make some crafts, but they were only realistic "copies' of an actual item, a Poke'mon or an animal.

I wasn't very imaginative as a young kid, so I never thought I could "make" my own things such as a net. I did love to fish and tried to make my own fishing pole, but that was it.

Now, I have gone from sculpting realistic animals in my teenage years, to doing mainly DIY crafts. I am trying to make everything from cold process soaps, rain barrels, small furniture and bushcrafts such as a crab net. I still occasionally sculpt nature things, but building bushcrafts is way more fun.

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31 May 2015, 12:24 pm

My fav video on Youtube ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzAQ-jYfEqA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxIJzyL ... 15F3FF72BC

I loved making snares, tinkering and such. I originally trained as a draftsman and studied some engineering, but had a love of computers so ended up as a programmer and 3D artist / animator.

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31 May 2015, 3:03 pm

mysterious_misfit wrote:

There is a question on the Aspie Quiz that asks if you have ever been fascinated with traps. I never have, but does anyone have experience with that? I am confused about what that really means.

This question appeared in one of the earlier versions of the Rdos aspie quiz.

Rdos is an exponent of The Neanderthal theory
It was my belief at the time, that this, and some of the other questions, were looking for possible Neanderthal traits.
Rdos is still an active member here, so maybe he can clarify.

With a little bit of hunting and gathering I found this:
Neanderthal theory and hunting by Rdos

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31 May 2015, 3:47 pm

mysterious_misfit wrote:

There is a question on the Aspie Quiz that asks if you have ever been fascinated with traps. I never have, but does anyone have experience with that?

[...]

If you've ever played AD&D, you will have encountered some very elaborate fictional traps. Everything from a concealed pit to elaborate tripwire and clockwork arrangement. Any "Dungeon Master" worth his dice is going to design progressively more sophisticated traps for his or her players to defeat (or to be caught in).

I did my best to present my players with something more than "Step-and-Die" descriptions each session, only to see someone else compile the most diabolical traps imaginable in the "Grimtooth" series of role-play supplements, authored by Steve Crompton, and published by Flying Buffalo Press.

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31 May 2015, 4:21 pm

Soliloquist wrote:

mysterious_misfit wrote:

There is a question on the Aspie Quiz that asks if you have ever been fascinated with traps. I never have, but does anyone have experience with that? I am confused about what that really means.

The so called "peer reviewed" document in the OP is twaddle! The spelling, the grammar, the assumptions are ridiculous!

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31 May 2015, 4:24 pm

Traps require you think about the future, study patterns of behaviour of others.

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01 Jun 2015, 2:24 pm

rarebit wrote:

Soliloquist wrote:

mysterious_misfit wrote:

There is a question on the Aspie Quiz that asks if you have ever been fascinated with traps. I never have, but does anyone have experience with that? I am confused about what that really means.

The so called "peer reviewed" document in the OP is twaddle! The spelling, the grammar, the assumptions are ridiculous!

The peer reviewed document was not the reason why I linked the thread.

This was:

rdos wrote:

The Aspie hunting group has caused lots of confusion among people that do Aspie-quiz. This is probably because hunting is usually associated with guns, throwing spears and killing animals at a distance. The questions in this category in Aspie-quiz give no associations at all to this kind of hunting.

So what then is Aspie hunting? The history behind the traits is pretty long. The habitat traits (like liking slowly flowing water) were introduced very early in the evolution of Aspie-quiz, but at that time was not thought to be hunting traits. The main traits, however, are more recent, and were used to evaluate Valerius Geist’s Neanderthal paradigm.

Geist’s Neanderthal paradigm was published in the 1970s and was a novel way to solve several mysteries about Neanderthal tools and why they selected the prey species they did. A central observation by Geist was that all prey species had fur. He therefore presumed that Neanderthal’s had used this property of their prey in their hunting tactics. The Mousterian tool-kit also seem to lack throwing spears, and instead contains larger tools that seems to work a lot better as stabbing spears. The rodeo-like injuries of Neanderthal are also largely unexplained by proponents that like to think that Neanderthals must have been hunting in the same manner as us, only less successfully, and with cruder weapons.

While Valerius Geists hypothesis goes a long way at explaining the archeology, it says little about the psychology and specific adaptations of Neanderthal. These aspects were researched in Aspie-quiz to try to confirm (or disprove) Geists hypothesis. There were a lot of predictions from the hypothesis that could be tested.
The following traits were predictions (listed with their predicted function) that were highly successful (correlated well with Aspie score and each others):

Walking on toes – related to sneaking
Enjoying spinning in circles – related to an animal trying to get rid of the hunter
Enjoying hanging upside-down – yet another way to stay on the animal
Having an urge to jump over things – related to jumping up on top of an animal
Enjoying digging – related to hiding a large kill
Mimicking animal sounds – a way of tricking an animal
Enjoying throwing small things – another way of tricking an animal that the hunter is somewhere else
Sniffing people or things – related to tracking
Enjoying chasing animals or people – close encounter hunting
Enjoying biting (people) – a paralysing tactic that Geist proposes
Enjoying making traps – this is an obvious addition to Geist’s hypothesis

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01 Jun 2015, 3:33 pm

Soliloquist wrote:

Walking on toes – related to sneaking
Enjoying spinning in circles – related to an animal trying to get rid of the hunter
Enjoying hanging upside-down – yet another way to stay on the animal
Having an urge to jump over things – related to jumping up on top of an animal
Enjoying digging – related to hiding a large kill
Mimicking animal sounds – a way of tricking an animal
Enjoying throwing small things – another way of tricking an animal that the hunter is somewhere else
Sniffing people or things – related to tracking
Enjoying chasing animals or people – close encounter hunting
Enjoying biting (people) – a paralysing tactic that Geist proposes
Enjoying making traps – this is an obvious addition to Geist’s hypothesis

So its comparing those answers between NT's n Aspies, well I just asked some and got both sides of the answers, and my answers were yes to them all, including biting... Am I a Neanderthal? Does it indicate Neanderthals used such tactics?

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01 Jun 2015, 5:34 pm

Must confess I'm rather interested in how traps work, though I don't know if that's simply because they're a practical, intellectual challenge with a clear-cut way of testing their success.

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