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Re: Another new term
« Reply #30 on: September 07, 2007, 11:09:38 AM »
my pet peeve is that crap about autistics not being empathetic. it's bullshit. we are totally empathetic, we're just not emo about it.

i don't have a photomemory, i can't hold onto an image and it's all fluffy and fuzzy. if i had the ability to watch things properly in my head, anything i imagine, i'd watch gay porn and Stargate all day. :P and of course combine the two. :)

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Re: Another new term
« Reply #31 on: September 07, 2007, 11:15:42 PM »
aspoids.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #32 on: September 07, 2007, 11:19:04 PM »
aspoloids.

aspertoids.

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Re: Another new term
« Reply #33 on: September 07, 2007, 11:20:15 PM »
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #34 on: September 07, 2007, 11:20:59 PM »
asperscream sunday.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #35 on: September 07, 2007, 11:21:38 PM »
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #36 on: September 07, 2007, 11:50:01 PM »
asperwedgies.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #37 on: September 07, 2007, 11:50:24 PM »
and sourcream.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #38 on: September 08, 2007, 12:05:29 AM »
If you have an IQ above a certain point you're pretty much automatically up from HFA to AS, I think.
I always thought the difference had more to do with early verbal development, which doesn't always correlate with IQ.   Wonder if there's a definitive answer?  I'll have to go poking around and see what I can find out, it's an interesting question!
I can only give personal experience here. I know there is the thought that delayed speech = HFA but I feel this is not necessarily so.

I had speech "on time" but I have always had difficulty with it and words come out disordered a lot of the time. So this is why I was diagnosed HFA. Also lowish IQ because I couldn't express myself during testing so that made the score lower than what it might have been. Not really sure about that.

I have bad memory too.

Also met a fair few more criteria than is needed for diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome. Because HFA is not an official diagnosis, not written in the DSM-IV, that is confusing to a lot of people. So what I would say to people is I have autism/am autistic even though it is surprising to them that I have speech, no matter that it is disordered.

my pet peeve is that crap about autistics not being empathetic. it's bullshit. we are totally empathetic, we're just not emo about it.
Emo being emotional? Sometimes I am. It can lead to meltdown. It has when I have felt someone else's suffering/pain.

My theory is that we have too much empathy, we feel everything, it is too much so we shut it down. Much like Data's emotion chip. And look like we are feeling nothing. It is just a self-defence mechanism.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #39 on: September 08, 2007, 12:15:48 AM »
normies show emotion to others and somehow much more readily connect with other people. to me it doesn't work that way. if i seem unempathetic it's more to do with me being more private or cut off so i don't shower my empathy on people in a visible way in the way NTs do. i just don't feel the need to do that. and it isn't natural to me.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #40 on: September 08, 2007, 12:18:24 AM »
i love Data on an emotion trip. :laugh:

yes it could be that we feel so much we shut down. sometimes i just don't feel anything, it puzzles me. i feel anger and frustration more. but sadness somehow is hard to feel. it translates as physical pain in the chest and i release it by screaming. it's like i don't allow myself to feel too bad anymore.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #41 on: September 08, 2007, 07:13:56 AM »
My theory is that we have too much empathy, we feel everything, it is too much so we shut it down. Much like Data's emotion chip. And look like we are feeling nothing. It is just a self-defence mechanism.

I'm not sure it can be universally applied to all of us anymore than any other trait.  But, this is pretty much how I am too.  Although there are probably some degrees to this too.  I can usually handle "everyday" emotion in small groups.  But intense ones or more people and shut down begins.

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Re: Another new term
« Reply #42 on: September 08, 2007, 12:52:53 PM »
Can you give some examples?

A few maybe ...

My latest "aversion" is the letter combination "mid" when it is applied as a prefix ... midday, midnight, mid-anything, even middle, stops me in my tracks and I have to struggle to find or get back to context. Mid is very descriptive. It overwhelms my perceptions. I used to date a girl from Midland - maybe that's my problem. :D

This happens with many prefixes. Ante- and anti- and pan- and con- and uni- are also picture hungry. A few suffixes hit me, too, like -le and -age. "Out" is no problem, but "outage" is a stumbler. "Handle" is a word that creates so much anxiety in my mind that it is difficult to move away from, because of the blast of imagery, but I have finally figured out that it is the -le on the end. I am captured by its power. Don't worry -ed is easy. Many other -le suffixes are almost as bad. It is like they are TOO flexible and have too many uses.

Combining suffixes is also rough, like the word manageable, which comes from Latin for "hand" plus the two suffixes. That's only one example of multiple fixing  of words, but it is a very sticky one, to me. Of course many words are common prefixes added to common suffixes, like multiple, but they don't get to me as much for some reason.

A few simple words that cause me delays (all convey too many meanings) ... gone, able, flux, though, carry, gain, drop ... many more, too.

I use all these words, but they can take extra time if I hear them in conversation.

I'm not sure what you're looking for, but this delay in processing thing is something that I have given a lot of thought to in recent years.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #43 on: September 08, 2007, 12:59:41 PM »
I think there is and it be an aspie who can't hold down a job and can't be real independant, can't take care of themselves. There is also such thing as low functioning NTs and that be my ex alright. Anyone can be low functioning.
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YES!
I have said this for quite some time, now. I run into them every time I try to go into a Walmart.
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Re: Another new term
« Reply #44 on: September 08, 2007, 01:31:01 PM »
Can you give some examples?

A few maybe ...

My latest "aversion" is the letter combination "mid" when it is applied as a prefix ... midday, midnight, mid-anything, even middle, stops me in my tracks and I have to struggle to find or get back to context. Mid is very descriptive. It overwhelms my perceptions. I used to date a girl from Midland - maybe that's my problem. :D

This happens with many prefixes. Ante- and anti- and pan- and con- and uni- are also picture hungry. A few suffixes hit me, too, like -le and -age. "Out" is no problem, but "outage" is a stumbler. "Handle" is a word that creates so much anxiety in my mind that it is difficult to move away from, because of the blast of imagery, but I have finally figured out that it is the -le on the end. I am captured by its power. Don't worry -ed is easy. Many other -le suffixes are almost as bad. It is like they are TOO flexible and have too many uses.

Combining suffixes is also rough, like the word manageable, which comes from Latin for "hand" plus the two suffixes. That's only one example of multiple fixing  of words, but it is a very sticky one, to me. Of course many words are common prefixes added to common suffixes, like multiple, but they don't get to me as much for some reason.

A few simple words that cause me delays (all convey too many meanings) ... gone, able, flux, though, carry, gain, drop ... many more, too.

I use all these words, but they can take extra time if I hear them in conversation.

I'm not sure what you're looking for, but this delay in processing thing is something that I have given a lot of thought to in recent years.
I await my analysis. :D

i'm like that to a degree. words that have many meanings especially all the fixes sometimes short circuit my brain mid-sentence. (sorry) :laugh: somehow my brain gets distracted and forgets what it was thinking and all these possible meanings float in the air... i hate "handle" because it makes me think of love handles and i get that image in my head. i try to think of a door handle but it is of little help.
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