Holy crap. You've just described me. I never thought I was autistic... maybe a bit of a sperg. I was vax damaged at the age of 4 which didn't make me autistic but it wrecked my coordination, which precluded me from enjoying sports, which enhanced my nerd powers, especially after seeing The Empire Strikes Back when I was 5 in the movie theater and it changed my life. Growing up I would avoid people to spare them the effort of pushing me away. I've also always been rather blunt and abrasive, speaking truth as I see it.
A lot of these are falsely branded autism (which happens when you create this huge spectrum to apply things to) but the most common trait is issues with emotional awareness.
This does often seem to lead to a place where autistic people end up becoming more aware of their emotions and the emotions of those around them, so they do tend to take special care to understand the emotions and how the people close to them act, take extra care to avoid hurting those they care about, etc.
But people tend to dislike blunt and honest truth, and that does lead to turmoil within relationships of all kinds.
From my point of view -- not a doctor -- a lot of traits that we are medicating away through bunk diagnoses of things like autism, ADHD, OCD, etc. are traits that are valuable, not exclusive and from my belief, able to be honed.
For the autistic, we tend to be very good at researching facts, finding information, quickly digesting the information, and processing that information for various purposes -- e.g., a scholarly life, science, etc. -- but we tend to stray away from a lot of interpersonal relationships, but with the right environment this can be trained as well.
For the ADHD, we tend to have very good parallel processing that gets annoying but when focused allows us to have extremely good skill at multitasking and general efficiency, making us extremely valuable for workloads requiring a lot of multitasking.
For the OCD, we tend to have extremely good attention to detail, and if that attention to detail is focused, we can be very good in almost any design field as supplemental roles to things like carpentry, home decor, detailing vehicles, painting, etc. by noticing things that other people might not notice, but are appreciable in a way that many other people wouldn't be able to quantify until it's pointed out by you.
Not every case is mild, and some are more severe than others, but I deeply believe that a lot of these end up being gifts that are not put in the correct environments.
Now that that boring and uninspired rambling rant is over!
Another series of autistic traits are sensory sensitivities, be it to a certain texture, sound, smell, etc.
There is no benefit to this at all, no matter how I swing it, and this is something in particular I do suffer from. Only way to beat it is to avoid it your sensitivities, or forcibly push through it via the torturous method of subjecting yourself to it repeatedly.
Also, sorry about your vax damage as a child. That's really shit. And yes, Star Wars was a big part of my childhood too. Screw Disney for ruining it.
I was born in '76 and didn't know about autism until about 18 or so years ago. I have never claimed to be autistic because I'm ignorant about it. I do have a cousin in the USA I've never met who is said to be highly autistic. Vax damaged to the core, he is about 10 now and finally able to start forming sentences. It's so sad. Is that autism or just flat out brain damage? He can sort of talk to his sister, I guess. His sister is a very lovely 12 year old who studies Chinese and Japanese, as well as jiu jitsu and the violin. She was just a baby when we moved to Japan and I don't know them much. I got my uncle to follow Q years ago, but he grew impatient and has a "wake me when something happens" attitude now. He's a retired nurse and he's realized that so much of the medical industry is rotten, but he is skeptical about natural autism cures.
EDIT: Oh yes, and I am an INFP. I tend to sense the emotions of those I am close to.
Kidding aside, it could go either way, I'm not a doctor, so I can't say, but you might look into a PhD named David w. Gregg. He was a retired chemist/chemical engineer who looked at various medical problems from the bottom up (rather than top down) since he already had the required knowledge experience with chemistry. One of the things he found while researching autism to help a friend's kid who had autism was that autistic children tend to suffer from malnourishment, because their bodies don't produce certain enzymes. He figured out that if you used gave them the pre-enzyme instead of the enzyme, the body could regulate the use better.
I know about that. My aunt is Chinese (from Thailand) and she cooks awesome food. I know a lot of behavioral/mental disorders are from kids being fed processed crap, but I do not think it's the case with my aunt. I read the book "The Unhealthy Truth" and the woman who wrote the book talked about how a milk allergy was causing her son's autism. I think they need to take their son to a naturopathic doctor to find the root cause rather than addressing the symptoms.
I know. I have never been diagnosed with Aspergers, but I do think I may have that a bit, since I tend to prattle on about stuff nobody cares about. I can't even pretend to be normal, so I probably am a part of the club. Plus I think I have had an undiagnosed case of Tourette's. I am pretty certain that I lost a contract job at AT&T due to subconscious facial contortions and me blurting out something I shouldn't have. There was another contractor in charge of the project who fancied himself as a body language expert and I am sure he got me fired. He was a prick.
Holy crap. You've just described me. I never thought I was autistic... maybe a bit of a sperg. I was vax damaged at the age of 4 which didn't make me autistic but it wrecked my coordination, which precluded me from enjoying sports, which enhanced my nerd powers, especially after seeing The Empire Strikes Back when I was 5 in the movie theater and it changed my life. Growing up I would avoid people to spare them the effort of pushing me away. I've also always been rather blunt and abrasive, speaking truth as I see it.
A lot of these are falsely branded autism (which happens when you create this huge spectrum to apply things to) but the most common trait is issues with emotional awareness.
This does often seem to lead to a place where autistic people end up becoming more aware of their emotions and the emotions of those around them, so they do tend to take special care to understand the emotions and how the people close to them act, take extra care to avoid hurting those they care about, etc.
But people tend to dislike blunt and honest truth, and that does lead to turmoil within relationships of all kinds.
From my point of view -- not a doctor -- a lot of traits that we are medicating away through bunk diagnoses of things like autism, ADHD, OCD, etc. are traits that are valuable, not exclusive and from my belief, able to be honed.
For the autistic, we tend to be very good at researching facts, finding information, quickly digesting the information, and processing that information for various purposes -- e.g., a scholarly life, science, etc. -- but we tend to stray away from a lot of interpersonal relationships, but with the right environment this can be trained as well.
For the ADHD, we tend to have very good parallel processing that gets annoying but when focused allows us to have extremely good skill at multitasking and general efficiency, making us extremely valuable for workloads requiring a lot of multitasking.
For the OCD, we tend to have extremely good attention to detail, and if that attention to detail is focused, we can be very good in almost any design field as supplemental roles to things like carpentry, home decor, detailing vehicles, painting, etc. by noticing things that other people might not notice, but are appreciable in a way that many other people wouldn't be able to quantify until it's pointed out by you.
Not every case is mild, and some are more severe than others, but I deeply believe that a lot of these end up being gifts that are not put in the correct environments.
Now that that boring and uninspired rambling rant is over!
Another series of autistic traits are sensory sensitivities, be it to a certain texture, sound, smell, etc.
There is no benefit to this at all, no matter how I swing it, and this is something in particular I do suffer from. Only way to beat it is to avoid it your sensitivities, or forcibly push through it via the torturous method of subjecting yourself to it repeatedly.
Also, sorry about your vax damage as a child. That's really shit. And yes, Star Wars was a big part of my childhood too. Screw Disney for ruining it.
I was born in '76 and didn't know about autism until about 18 or so years ago. I have never claimed to be autistic because I'm ignorant about it. I do have a cousin in the USA I've never met who is said to be highly autistic. Vax damaged to the core, he is about 10 now and finally able to start forming sentences. It's so sad. Is that autism or just flat out brain damage? He can sort of talk to his sister, I guess. His sister is a very lovely 12 year old who studies Chinese and Japanese, as well as jiu jitsu and the violin. She was just a baby when we moved to Japan and I don't know them much. I got my uncle to follow Q years ago, but he grew impatient and has a "wake me when something happens" attitude now. He's a retired nurse and he's realized that so much of the medical industry is rotten, but he is skeptical about natural autism cures.
EDIT: Oh yes, and I am an INFP. I tend to sense the emotions of those I am close to.
Yes 😂
Kidding aside, it could go either way, I'm not a doctor, so I can't say, but you might look into a PhD named David w. Gregg. He was a retired chemist/chemical engineer who looked at various medical problems from the bottom up (rather than top down) since he already had the required knowledge experience with chemistry. One of the things he found while researching autism to help a friend's kid who had autism was that autistic children tend to suffer from malnourishment, because their bodies don't produce certain enzymes. He figured out that if you used gave them the pre-enzyme instead of the enzyme, the body could regulate the use better.
I know about that. My aunt is Chinese (from Thailand) and she cooks awesome food. I know a lot of behavioral/mental disorders are from kids being fed processed crap, but I do not think it's the case with my aunt. I read the book "The Unhealthy Truth" and the woman who wrote the book talked about how a milk allergy was causing her son's autism. I think they need to take their son to a naturopathic doctor to find the root cause rather than addressing the symptoms.
Sperg is short for "asperger's syndrome," a high functioning form of autism.
Source: I was diagnosed when I was 12.
Welcome to the party, brother! Googble gobble and all that
I know. I have never been diagnosed with Aspergers, but I do think I may have that a bit, since I tend to prattle on about stuff nobody cares about. I can't even pretend to be normal, so I probably am a part of the club. Plus I think I have had an undiagnosed case of Tourette's. I am pretty certain that I lost a contract job at AT&T due to subconscious facial contortions and me blurting out something I shouldn't have. There was another contractor in charge of the project who fancied himself as a body language expert and I am sure he got me fired. He was a prick.