Which is your most autistic trait?

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Special interests of unusual type and intensity.

It's like that episode "Darmok" on (now, work with me here, ok?) StarTrek the next generation.

Picard had to find a way to communicate with the Tamarians who, he learns, speak entirely in metaphors from their mythology. and the universal translator doesn't translate. In an effort to bring them closer, the Tamarian Captain beams himself and Picard onto a planet inhabited by a dangerous beast.

Picard: Darmok and Gilead at Tenegra
Captain Dathon: Darmok and Gilead on the ocean
Picard: ...They left together (edit)


See?? My mom would hold me by both arms and look into my face and say "Honor Bright??" with great seriousness. I would repeat right back to her "Honor Bright" and she seemed satisfied. Years later I found out she was asking me if 'my honor was bright' if I were LYING! I had no idea and always said yes, not knowing if I were lying or not.

Like Darmok and Gilead at Tenegra, I suppose.

Merle

Nothing.

WOW! At one pont, I saw a description of autism, and thought the same sort of thing. Because I was always compensating so much, I figured they COULDN'T have a diagnosis for me. I never like psychiatrists anyway.

I chew on and pick at my lips almost constantly...to the point that they bleed. It really disturbs my husband and he's always telling me to put some Chapstick on. I also pick at the dead skin around my fingernails and sometimes make them bleed too.

There should be a "All of the above" selection

Executive dysfunction.

E: I cannot socialize at all; I cannot talk to people, but I don't care.

Last edited by Danielismyname on 25 Nov 2007, 12:45 am, edited 1 time in total.

What I notice most is my lack of social skills and my obsessions, because they're what's important to me. However, plenty of non-autistic people have obsessions or poor social skills, so my most autistic trait is stimming, because it's what other people notice the most - it's definitely what's most different about me to them.

Obsessions with strange things.

I'm the same.

I read the list to my husband and he said emphatically "interrupting!" LOL

Why isn't there a box where I can check all of the above?lol But seriously, I think that is why I prefer to be alone, so that all of my "abnormal" behavior won't offend anyone and so that their being offended won't offend me! Do you know how exhausting it is to have to pretend to be just like the NT's? People at work just think I'm eccentric, and they love to remind me to use my "inside voice" It's nice to stay home when I'm not working, talk to myself and bite my nails...etc, oh yeah, and I find when I'm talking to myself, I seldom interrupt me, ha! I hate people btw, and I adore my four dogs....they think I'm great and when I come home, to them I am Elvis and The Beatles! Why wouldn't I prefer their company to some goof who wants to change me ( I can't change) or who could never accept me, just as I am?I have a gazillion hobbies, and right now I am obsessed with learning to play the mandolin like I hear it in my brain, and make it come out of my fingertips---I've been playing for about 5 years but couldn't get farther with that without lessons, couldn't stand the thought of taking lessons so I solved that problem by getting instructional dvd's, ta da!!!But it took me 5 years to figure this out-SIGH

I picked other, because I feel that my strict adherence to routine is by far the worst for me. I cannot learn to be more flexible, even though I have spent my entire lifetime trying.
If I HAD to pick from one of the options listed, I would pick fiddling, since I can control everything else when around others, except that. I am always fiddling with something, or playing with my fingers, and I'm unaware that I'm doing it.

I talk like a defective text book; mixing up slang and swearing with apparently large words. It's quite amusing.

I guess other, because I've only know the weirdness I'm prey to had a name since I found a Dan Akroyd interview that fit a little too snugly...

Stimming? - forgive an old f*rt, but what is it?

I chew the area around the fingernail ends, but only when the get so long they hurt or get in the way.

I'm bad on interrupting, but I'm getting better at just shutting up and letting the NT's make fools of themselves..

Probably the worst part is when I've ticked off someone, and am scrambling around trying to 'fix it'...

Nothing outwardly... I don't stim or rock or fidget or anything in front of other people. Nothing that people would recognize as stimming, anyway. I'd say my most recognizable trait in public is being lost in my daydreams and barely acknowledging other people most of the time.