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Sedaka
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04 Apr 2007, 9:43 pm
05 Apr 2007, 6:06 am
Grimbling wrote:
Good morning, WPers!
I have not long been diagnosed with Aspergers. I'm still at the stage of being really cross that for so many years I've been told my variously weirdesses are all my own fault!
Anyway, coz I'm still pretty new at this stuff, if I jot down a list of weird things I do, could some others with some more experience give some feedback on whether these might be manifestations of Aspergers, or just me being me?
* When I'm in a crowd, I'll often feel like a rock in a stream - like there's all this colour and nosie and movement going on around me, but I'm not really part of it, and don't really understand it.
* I can't SMS. I can't even understand SMS-talk. If I get an email that's all "LOL" and "U R gr8" it takes me forever to work out what they mean and translate it into proper English.
* I have to consciously think to make eye contact.
* Can't judge distance and space to save my life. Parking a car is sheer terror and blind luck. I can make no sense of maths questions of the "how many faces does this object have?" variety.
* I constantly have a stream of thought going totally separate to the 'what I'm doing now' thinking that goes on. Often it'll be repetitively replaying songs, or scenes from TV shows. It goes on ALL the time.
I have not long been diagnosed with Aspergers. I'm still at the stage of being really cross that for so many years I've been told my variously weirdesses are all my own fault!
Anyway, coz I'm still pretty new at this stuff, if I jot down a list of weird things I do, could some others with some more experience give some feedback on whether these might be manifestations of Aspergers, or just me being me?
* When I'm in a crowd, I'll often feel like a rock in a stream - like there's all this colour and nosie and movement going on around me, but I'm not really part of it, and don't really understand it.
* I can't SMS. I can't even understand SMS-talk. If I get an email that's all "LOL" and "U R gr8" it takes me forever to work out what they mean and translate it into proper English.
* I have to consciously think to make eye contact.
* Can't judge distance and space to save my life. Parking a car is sheer terror and blind luck. I can make no sense of maths questions of the "how many faces does this object have?" variety.
* I constantly have a stream of thought going totally separate to the 'what I'm doing now' thinking that goes on. Often it'll be repetitively replaying songs, or scenes from TV shows. It goes on ALL the time.
Hey. Good to see you here!
1) Aspergers
2) That can be aspie.. I don't reply to meaningless comments and txts because I don't know what to say. It might be an ADD thing too, though with me. It's more of an intelligence thing than an aspie thing. No-one intelligent talks like that.
3)Probably aspie. I automatically don't make eye contact.
4) That doesn't seem like an aspie thing.
5) Neither is that. I think that is just a people thing.
05 Apr 2007, 4:52 pm
hale_bopp wrote:
No-one intelligent talks like that.
I've often thought that.
It's very frustrating these days they expect a person to write Letters to the Editor, order cabs and pizzas etc by SMS - I'm going to have to invest in a phone with a proper keyboard!
