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menintights
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31 Oct 2010, 2:03 pm

The introverted NTs I know are better than both extroverted NTs and people like us combined.



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31 Oct 2010, 2:48 pm

fernando wrote:
Well i are NT, i dare not chat with people, have no friends, no girlfriend, not even MSN, never go to parties, when in a group of people i stand silent in a corner while the others chat away, people try to cheer me up and fail... if that qualifies me as introverted (and i do score as introverted in the personality tests) then i'd be qualified to answer your question: the difference is the neurological state, a bunch of innerworkings of the central nervous system that is different in autistic people:

Autistic people have a monotone voice that doesn't carry any emotions, mine carries emotion.
Autistic people don't feel physical pain when they see someone being hurt, i do.
Autistic people have a cold brain, mine is hot.
Autistic people feel an extra kind of pleasure when their skin is pressed, i don't.
Autistic people can withstand cold temperatures very well, i can't.
Autistic people can't make warm eye contact, i can.
Autistic people have motor clumsiness, i own my body : )
Autistic people can't stand being touched, i don't mind it.

Basically i'm listing the symptoms of autism, except the tendency to routines, which i do exhibit but that's just my particular case.



I know I sound stupid for saying this, but that really offended me...I don't have a monotone voice, and not all autistics do (although I sometimes adopt one at school to make people in my class think I'm emotionless), and I'm sure that there are a couple autistics with mirror-touch synthesia (or however you spell it), such as (I think) me. The cold and hot brain is not all that it seems; some autists have depths of feeling that neurotypicals may not even realize, although the skin-pressing thing kind of works for me (I enjoy being hugged). The cold temperatures is either just a myth or a metaphor, but either one is false or media created, in my opinion, and some of the NT's can't make eye contact, either (especially when lying; I bought a book on that, just like I buy books on everything, as a bibliomaniac). Anybody can have motor clumsiness (my NT sister is an example; she broke an ankle on a step-up), and I'm not sure the touching thing is true when you said that they enjoy their skin being pressed. Most of the things you said were myths.



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31 Oct 2010, 9:33 pm

I sometimes wonder if I am just an introverted NT. My dad, in particular, used to tell me "Don't be a hermit!" when I was in HS. I really like being alone, much more than going out, and I like to live inside my own head.

Most of my close friends are introverted NTs. We get along pretty well, so I never really thought much of myself being different from them. But I seem to have more issues with relationships, clumsiness, sensory things than my introverted NT friends...