27 Sep 2018, 10:43 am
I am still wrestling with the question someone on WP asked years ago:"is your car aloof?".
The OP of that thread was struck by how his boss projected the boss's own gregarious NT personality onto his car, and apparently that OP assumed that the OP's own car had the OP's own loner (even thought the car was not a loaner) aspie personality.
Someone on that thread replied that "I never anthropomorphize cars because they hate it!".
That answer works for me. And I would apply it to teddy bears as well as to cars. 
28 Sep 2018, 10:08 am
It has few facial expressions.
It is often staring at people.
It has no friends at all.
It has a lot of difficulties in mimicking other's emotions (still smiling when told a sad event).
It has a restrained interest in the moon (looking at it for hours).
Does your teddy bear also have autism?
Do you know any efficient psychotherapy designed to help teddy bears with autism?
My teddy bear (and other plushies) were created with a physical inability to express facial expressions or mimic
others, so I think it's a physical problem rather than connected to brain wiring.
They tend to stare straight in front of them sort of vacantly, so they might be catatonic.
They have many soft friends though, so all in all, I don't think my plushies have autism.
Amen to that.
28 Sep 2018, 5:43 pm
28 Sep 2018, 6:43 pm
My teddy is from the planet Chronos, he is a Klingon called 'Harry' (an approximation of his real name). I'm not sure whether Klingons have the same brain wiring as humans so it is impossible to tell if he is autistic. He doesn't speak and stares a lot, but he stares kindly and has been very supportive to me over the years, so I'm guessing he does have empathy. He is fixated on his buddy Ernie (of Sesame Street fame) and their relationship is one of mutual dependence. i don't know if that is healthy or not. So the jury is out on that question for me. 
28 Sep 2018, 6:46 pm
Another better picture of Harry. Here he is showing his skills with an RC helicopter.
09 Oct 2018, 11:33 pm
I imagine he wears a Mountie hat, outdoors of course.
LMFAO , The Mountie in WWF (cartoony wrestling rules lol)
10 Oct 2018, 4:23 am
I imagine he wears a Mountie hat, outdoors of course.
LMFAO , The Mountie in WWF (cartoony wrestling rules lol)
He spends too much time sleeping to be wrestling...
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16 Jun 2019, 5:41 pm
The OP of that thread was struck by how his boss projected the boss's own gregarious NT personality onto his car, and apparently that OP assumed that the OP's own car had the OP's own loner (even thought the car was not a loaner) aspie personality.
Someone on that thread replied that "I never anthropomorphize cars because they hate it!".
That answer works for me. And I would apply it to teddy bears as well as to cars.
I think that might have been me but I couldn't find the post.
16 Jun 2019, 6:08 pm
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Lots of things are written in books, not all of them are true.
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