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20 Sep 2018, 11:50 pm

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It has no friends at all.

Not even you? I really hope your Teddy Bear at least has you for a friend.

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21 Sep 2018, 2:14 am

I don't have a teddy bear although I do have,

A Red Squirrel who seems to be obsessed with the front door
A Eurasian Otter who is obsessed with the squirrel (which could be bad news for the squirrel)
A lion (called Lionel) and a Border Collie who are obsessed with looking into each others eyes
A Grey Seal who is obsessed about snuggling up beside the previous pair
A ginger cat who was obsessed with lying upside down down the back of a cupboard in the spare room (now rectified, though I'll have to wait a while to check its new obsession)
A Red Fox who is obsessed with some unknown thing that can be seen from the bedroom window
A small generic dog that is obsessed with sitting on the stairs where it can keep a watchful eye on the lounge
A Hedgehog - current location unknown so I am unable to check whether it is obsessed by anything - maybe it is hibernating already.

All of them just stare endlessly, have lousy communication skills, even worse than me, and all suffer from a very flat affect, again even worse than me. However, as far as I know none of them are diagnosed with anything.

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21 Sep 2018, 3:32 am

SplendidSnail wrote:

LaetiBlabla wrote:

It has no friends at all.

Not even you? I really hope your Teddy Bear at least has you for a friend.

I can't really be its "friend". (I am myself not a teddy bear and we are not the same generation)
I wish it was hanging out with other teddy bears of its age.

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21 Sep 2018, 9:31 pm

My teddy bear is more of a plush pea. He's a candy eating Sweet Pea and his name is Om Nom. He's autistic and mostly non-verbal for the most part.

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21 Sep 2018, 9:41 pm

...Awwww :lol: .

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22 Sep 2018, 7:52 am

Umm ... an inanimate object having autism??? How does that happen???

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22 Sep 2018, 10:13 am

green0star wrote:

Umm ... an inanimate object having autism??? How does that happen???

Research shows that autists often ascribe personalities to their inanimate objects. If a simulacrum is seen to be autistic, the autists enjoy their company.

Improving autistic imagination is a good thing.

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22 Sep 2018, 10:33 am

^^^Really? I did not know. I personally never ascribe personalities to inanimate objects. However making this joke is indeed the result of an attempt to increase my poor imagination.

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22 Sep 2018, 10:39 am

My teddy bear is NT.

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22 Sep 2018, 11:47 am

AspieUtah wrote:

green0star wrote:

Umm ... an inanimate object having autism??? How does that happen???

Lack of imagination is not an autistic trait.

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22 Sep 2018, 12:07 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

AspieUtah wrote:

green0star wrote:

Umm ... an inanimate object having autism??? How does that happen???

Lack of imagination is not an autistic trait.

It is. You might have heard about Theory of Mind?

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22 Sep 2018, 12:11 pm

I'd say all my dolls and stuffed animals are autistic, but they don't seem to mind being lined up or put in groups with no space or privacy, and if I decide to move them around or display them somewhere else they're not stressed out by the sudden change.

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22 Sep 2018, 1:27 pm

AspieUtah wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

AspieUtah wrote:

green0star wrote:

Umm ... an inanimate object having autism??? How does that happen???

Lack of imagination is not an autistic trait.

It is. You might have heard about Theory of Mind?

well, AspieUtah,
...you read Autists would typically have no imagination
… and you read they would typically ascribe personalities to inanimate objects

both do not go together, it doesn't make sense. There must be something wrong in the researches you read (that happens)
(also lots of NT children give a name to their teddy bear... "typically autistic"? not sure.)

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22 Sep 2018, 1:55 pm

LaetiBlabla wrote:

SplendidSnail wrote:

LaetiBlabla wrote:

It has no friends at all.

Not even you? I really hope your Teddy Bear at least has you for a friend.

I can't really be its "friend". (I am myself not a teddy bear and we are not the same generation)
I wish it was hanging out with other teddy bears of its age.

Perhaps, in a strange way, your teddy bear somehow makes you more neurotypical. This sounds like something an NT might say.

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22 Sep 2018, 1:59 pm

LaetiBlabla wrote:

well, AspieUtah,
...you say Autists would typically have no imagination
… and you say they would typically ascribe personalities to inanimate objects

both do not go together, it doesn't make sense. There must be something wrong in the researches you read (that happens)
(also lots of NT children give a name to their teddy bear... "typically autistic"? not sure.)

You have to be careful with the definition of "imagination." If we're talking fantasy world and play time, I think many Aspies bury themselves in imagination, especially as children.

But I believe AspieUtah is talking about social imagination, i.e. theorizing and predicting how other people will presumably most likely behave with a high degree of accuracy. NTs naturally have this form of (social) imagination. Aspies, by definition, do not.

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22 Sep 2018, 2:05 pm

ezbzbfcg2 wrote:

LaetiBlabla wrote:

SplendidSnail wrote:

LaetiBlabla wrote:

It has no friends at all.

Not even you? I really hope your Teddy Bear at least has you for a friend.

I can't really be its "friend". (I am myself not a teddy bear and we are not the same generation)
I wish it was hanging out with other teddy bears of its age.

Perhaps, in a strange way, your teddy bear somehow makes you more neurotypical. This sounds like something an NT might say.

Something like that indeed, maybe I diagnose my teddy bear as autistic, so that I can play NT with it, what I am doing (half unconsciously) in my sentence you highlight above.

The thing is, I don't "want" to be autistic, maybe this is an attempt to transfer the autism to … my teddy bear.

thanks for highlighting this

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