So what if I like to go barefoot?

Sep 21, 2005 12:09

I was going to send Flexy an email with a link to the Asperger's quiz we were discussing at dinner last night, until I remembered that that's what LJ is for ( Read more... )

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jg26 September 21 2005, 18:02:43 UTC
Not surprisingly, especially to B, I got a 130.

It felt like so many of the questions were written specifically about me.

Do you more easily get very upset over 'minor' things (e.g. losing your favourite pen) than over which others get upset about (e.g. a relative passing away)

This is one of the things that I've been recognizing lately; how I don't really care when a close family member is sick or dying, unless I'm asked/expected to do something about it. But, lemme tell you, if a someone is blocking the flow of traffic, specifically, if that causes me to miss something (a bus, a train, a traffic light), I feel as if there is some intelligence at work, and the whole world was designed to fuck w/ me.... and I'm an atheist.

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artana September 21 2005, 18:20:33 UTC
Yeah. There were a few there where I was definitely wondering how they knew about that.

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bluechromis September 21 2005, 19:52:42 UTC
Sooooooooooooooo...??

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artana September 22 2005, 02:34:14 UTC
I posted it on my journal. I got something like 114? 115?

Or was that a different sort of Soooooo...?

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artana September 22 2005, 12:24:08 UTC
Ok. Here are Mine ( ... )

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Curious. jg26 September 22 2005, 13:46:10 UTC
What exactly did you feel in the MRI? Were you getting a diagnostic or a research scan? What part of your body?

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Re: Curious. artana September 22 2005, 13:52:06 UTC
It was a diagnostic scan to determine the issue with my knee, if there was any. Everything except my neck and head were in the tube.

What I felt? Something like a mild beginnings to menstrual cramps. I thought it was in my head at first, but they did four passes and each time the field would stop, so would the cramps.

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Re: Curious. jg26 September 22 2005, 14:21:42 UTC
That position is not one that I'm used to in magnets (**snicker**), we are usually doing head scans. I will say that there are certain kinds of scans we do (Echo Planar Imaging) that will induce a current in a long nerve which runs down one's back, exciting a muscle, causing it to twitch in time w/ the scan. Happens to me every time I do the scan. I've never heard of diagnostic scans inducing girly parts, but it's not out of the question. It would all have to do with the direction & strenght of changing fields relative to the direction and length of the nerve ( ... )

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Re: Curious. artana September 22 2005, 14:24:46 UTC
That's really interesting. I got the degree in Cog Sci, but I only did one year of experimental Psych grad school. It's cool to hear about this kind of side effect.

The lady told me that about 1/3 of her patients ever felt anything at all.

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Re: Curious. jg26 September 22 2005, 14:43:07 UTC
Surprising to hear that as many as 1/3 of patients would feel something. Diagnostic scans aren't usually pushing boundaries as far as power/time, like time-critical research scans might do (ie. you need 1 3D snapshot of the head every 3 seconds).

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bluechromis September 21 2005, 19:00:46 UTC
Which ones? I didn't figure you'd get that high, though of course I knew there'd be several you would say yes to.

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hiddenbear September 21 2005, 19:27:29 UTC
I didn't get the impression that, for all the questions, saying yes meant that that was an Aspie trait. There were quite a few, where saying no seemed to be more autistic in nature.

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artana September 21 2005, 19:28:56 UTC
Yeah. There were a number that I said "0" to that seemed to me to be questions that a more "normal" person might answer "2" to.

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bluechromis September 21 2005, 19:34:05 UTC
Yeah, sorry, I misstated that - I didn't mean which ones did you say "yes" to, just which ones did you give the aspie answer for (if you know the difference).

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jg26 September 21 2005, 19:42:03 UTC
Mine went pretty much by section.

I found most of the questions in the following sections to be fairly fitting.
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Language & Speech
  • Emotions
  • Hyperfocus, Distractability, etc
  • Need For Repetition & Predictability

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bluechromis September 21 2005, 19:48:14 UTC
I'm very dubious that you are truly a 130. You are very caring and connected with your friends, you take good care of yourself hygenically, but you're definitely no metrosexual, fairly middling there, and you don't really have sensory issues (other than your freakishly sensitive nose tip. ;-))

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