Time To Have Our Own Aspergers Hand Sign?

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20 Nov 2010, 11:39 pm

Ugh. Teens in my town have their own slogan for whatever area they're from. It's lame.
However Monkey's is cool. It represents all of the spectrum. Also, cool shirt.

How about I write WrongPlanet in the sky with an aeroplane? So all you have to do is look up. I suspect you'll be looking up anyway...


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21 Nov 2010, 12:04 am

What about perpendicularly interlaced fingers? To an outsider, it looks like you're just cracking your knuckles or something, but to those of us who know better...


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21 Nov 2010, 7:16 am

TTRSage wrote:
I second that motion. This is the best one I've seen so far, but something is needed that can be done more discreetly and with a single hand. You need to be very quick to throw your fingers together into that position at just the right time without looking like a total klutz when you are fighting those cognitive delays to begin with.


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21 Nov 2010, 8:01 am

I think Vulcan salute is the best, because it's easy to do and looks great. A or WP are complicated and not practical. And we all know that Spock is an Aspie too. Live long and prosper!
This sing wasn't invented 50 years ago, but it's much older - it's old Jewish sign.
My Mom does this sign to me, because it looks like V, so she does it and says Hey, Valoy!



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21 Nov 2010, 8:35 am

What about the thumb-in-fist sign?
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Somehow this hand posture reminds me of an ASD person, alone among many, trying to shield themselves from the overwhelming world and not realising that this will make them stand out even more.

It is actually something babies do but it usually resolves around the 6th-7th month after birth. Been discussed as a neurodevelopmental marker as when it persists beyond the 7th month it can be associated with language delay.

I actually do that quite often. I do notice it, I stop doing it and the moment I stop paying attention, my thumbs slide back in my fists again.

Though, now I come to think about it, it could be mistaken for the 'hold thumbs for luck' gesture which substitutes for crossing one's fingers in some countries.



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21 Nov 2010, 8:35 am

maybe look at someone while you are flapping your hands, and they will think you are waving to them.

i personally have no expectation of meeting another asperger person in my life because i know they are so rare, and i also do not believe most of the people on this site really have AS.

this "aspie club" mentality is so silly and untrue. people here think that there are AS people abounding, and they also think that AS is a superior way to be, and that idea of elitism repulses me.

they watch "the big bang theory" and they fall in love with the brendon (?) character and they desperately want to be identified as AS because they idealize it as similar to the brendon character.

i can say with all my might that this site has only a few people that i identify with as AS, and the rest are just displaced intellectuals and people who are unable to to fit in to society for whatever reason.

sorry i am tired and not in the best mood, and i feel annoyed that my words are dismissed because they are not as "cool" as other people here who say they are AS but who are only maladjusted NT's.

whatever. good night.

by the way, do not bother to challenge me because you will waste your energy and i am not a calorie thief.