Alien race.

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I like the moving flecks idea.

-TB

*Bows* Thankyou.

Also, the emotion makes sense. As aspies can't process emotion as efficently as NT's then it builds up. So what builds up, spills over when the connection is made.

And the flecks would red-shift or blue-shift a lot of light. And if the brain ignored those wavelengths then you have less visual sensory input.

Just makes sense *Shrugs*

I hadn't even considered the red/blueshifting. Good catch. I like the idea, a lot. I still kind of liked my Aspie-to-Aspie telepathy better than Aspie-to-Human, but it's your idea.

Aspie-Aspie telepathy is actually a brilliant idea. Given that AFAIK Aspies think in images then it would allow for a larger amount of data to be transferred between them. Sorta like the difference between a zip file of a hundred images compared to one image.

That said...reminds me of Legillimency from harry potter >.>

In a way, yes...

-TB

I would think that telepathy would be exactly the sort of thing that an alien based on Asperger's Syndrome would NOT have. Or is the idea to convey what having Asperger's feels like, so in this case it's the aliens who communicate much more easily than most humans?
I guess I'm a little unclear.

Recent experiments with zebra fish in transplanting DNA gives them the capability to emit visible light like some jellyfish and other microscopic organisms. If a race of Aspies had eyes that glowed in the dark or even could change the intensity and color of the light emission with different emotions like some deep sea squid it would be a startling and perhaps frightening capability.

They should have slightly pointy ears and eyes, and green blood.

What if the changes weren't immediately obvious? Like something under the surface. Difference in muscular and nervous structure, alterations in the level of chemicals in the brain as well as alternate neural pathways and similar differences. While having a physical difference to mark an alien race would work in most cases, Aspergers isn't visible to someone at a glance (not in MOST cases, anyway).

As for abilities that vary greatly from the statistical norm, I would say telepathy amongst each other is a definite - Aspergians usually get one another fairly well, although this isn't to say we never disagree. Perhaps some kind of difference in the texture of their skin would be interesting too...

-TB

Allow me to clarify myself. We understand each other on a level I do not think humans have. One Aspie has a greater depth of empathy for another, but none or diminished capacity for a non-Aspie, or at least this has been my experience. I do not recall saying we concur on viewpoints. Quite the opposite - I said I was NOT saying that. I said, quote, "Aspergians usually get one another fairly well, although this isn't to say we never disagree".

-TB

After reading through this thread, I found the idea of having yellow eyes pretty interesting...

I just quickly tried changing the iris color of an eye I found on Google Images in Ps. Is this along the lines of what you were thinking, or do you think it should be more subtle?

Another thought would be if the eyes were heterochromic, or bi-colored. I like how that yellow eye looks, but what if it turned red or blue closer to the pupil?

-TB