Metaphors.

[staxxy]

I have been trying for a while to come up with a fairly accurate and workable metaphor for explaining Aspergers Syndrome to most people. I finally did tonight

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[staxxy]

thanks, and yeah, please DO share.

I have been looking for a way to explain it clearly for a WHILE and it just gelled for me tonight, in a conversation. :D

Credit would not suck. ;)

actually, I think I will make this post public.

[staxxy]

\m/ you rock!!

[staxxy]

I am *SO* glad that this makes is clear!!!

[staxxy]

yay!!

[sistawendy]

I wonder if most people know that Asperger's is a mild form of autism.

To get crazy with the computer analogy, I don't think people with Asperger's are running an OS with pre-emptive multitasking. They have a hard time doing several things at once, but they can often do one thing very well. That, and I/O events can cause the CPU to lock up, i.e. sensory sensitivities. :S

[staxxy]

I am going to have to go back to the "highly individualized" nature of the Linix OS. I would not say this is true for *all* people with Aspergers. I would say it is true for some. Spydr, for instance, seems happiest if he is multi-tasking. And his CPU only locks up over some I/O events - like being accessed by too many computers over a network. ;)

[themercymachine]

I wonder if most people know that Asperger's is a mild form of autism.

I don't think most do, which is why I prefer the term High Functioning Autism instead.

[miss_twilight]

I have Asperger's and I'm very good at multi-tasking (as long as it doesn't involve people talking to me or conversation, unless it is on the computer (ie, IM).)

[wendolen]

This makes my ongoing interest in establishing a partitioned system particularly amusing to me. :P

[staxxy]

hahahahahahahah :)