Campin_Cat wrote:
I'm thinking maybe our being able to do this might be two-fold.... We pay attention to detail, and words don't come easy for us??
After I realized about having (being?) Asperger's, I was thinking of my favorite childhood book,
A Wrinkle in Time and one of the characters, Mrs. Who (no relation to the Doctor
) She spoke only in quotes and one of the others explains that she finds it "difficult to verbalize" in her own words.
I wonder if Madeleine L'Engle had some familiarity with Asperger's, even though this was written in the early 1960s. Maybe she did but didn't realize what it was?
I think we do find it difficult to verbalize. Also, difficulties identifying emotions in others and maybe myself. If something someone says or does reminds me of a book, movie, or song, it helps reinforce guessing what's going on with them. To go back to my Frankenstein example, the way he looks when he says "friend?" and his hand gestures reminds me of the mix of confusion and hope I feel when I meet people and work on making friends.
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Your Aspie score: 152 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 47 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie