My Path (11) Autism)

[bobby1933]

Asperger's, is an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although

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[maadmike]

What is the main simptons for autism if you please? Maybe I am too...
One day I had thought I got all thesexually transmitted diseases after I had sex with the girl with such a reputation, so maybe to try autism... ;)

[bobby1933]

I am certainly no authority on autism, but i think the main thing is the social disconnection. One autistic person told me that he ran away from people and ran faster and farther from those who loved him. Temple Grandin, a successful autistic person in Colorado, had a brain scan that showed that her brain gets all "interested" when she looks at cows but not at all when she looks at people.

[maadmike]

Oh, thank you! I can get brief. I not that much like to look at cows as I like at some humans!

[pondhopper]

Self awareness is a wonderful thing and can help circumvent many problems and issues as one tries to relate to the world. I am always a bit wary of self diagnosis though at a more advanced age it may well be easier to do after a lifetime of symptoms.

Whatever you may or may not have, you are a good person...as I see you here. I think in the end that's all that matters.

[bobby1933]

Thank you.

I wholly agree about self diagnoses. I usually try to make clear that i have not been medically diagnosed. I "like" "autism" better than i do "borderline personality disorder" which shows many of the same "symptoms."

[vaporw]

What a great inner knowledge you randomly came across via the New Yorker.

I didn't know, not certain as to why, that you taught. That is something that would have been an impossible for me to do.

[bobby1933]

Thank you.

I taught sociology at the university here.
Lots of people tell me that they could never teach.
But i find teaching easy and most of the things they do hard.
Twenty people or two hundred are a lot less scary to me than one.

[vaporw]

I can speak to 1 to 1000 people, but teaching is another story. Although, I suppose when I am speaking, that is teaching. (yikes)

[heliopausa]

Thanks for sharing this story.

[bobby1933]

:) Thank you for reading it.