Auties, Aspies, and other CloudCuckooLanders!

I like talking and blabbing on a lot. I am a bit of a Motor Mouth

Hi..... I have high functioning autism. And ADHD. And dyslexia. And I'm new here. But I s'pose that's a little beside the point.

I have autism and my social skills are awful, both on and off the net.

-hugs- It's alright, guys. I'm a really awkward person and don't know how to correctly "form words", as it were.

We now have a discussion topic for those who want more serious, in-depth discussion on this subject. I certainly would welcome it. The topic sometimes moves fast.

Aye, I can relate to social skills. I've spent a large chunk of my life trying to, y'know, hide it.

Most of my conversations involve the standard asking how the other person is before running out of things to say.

Unless it's ranting on something I've recently become interested in, which...never seems to be interesting. And often, in real life, I'll stutter and restart a sentence, even if I didn't mess anything up.

But hey, by some twisted stroke of luck, I go to a college/company for aspiring autistic game developers. So that works out, sorta.

edited 9th May '14 8:42:55 AM by TheMike

I wish that college/company existed here, or something like it. Too many people just see us as weird and incompetent, and won't even give us a chance to prove them wrong about that second point.

Regarding social skills, I read a topic on Wrongplanet.net (a site for people on the spectrum) where someone asked "How do you guys fake it?" The answer? Well, many of them try (and gave examples of how they try to fake being non-autistic and fit in), but almost none of them succeed. No matter how hard they try, they get talked about behind their backs as being weird and so on, or laughed at.

This is the reason To the Moon hit so close to home.

It's like sometimes you try to hide the weirdness so much that nothing comes out and it's weird anyway.

edited 9th May '14 11:00:56 AM by TheMike

What about To the Moon? You'll have to explain.

I'd assumed River's character to be that of a girl who had autism (or something similar) and attempted to overcome it and be socially normal, yet...couldn't.

According to the work page and a review, it is indeed that, and handled very well, even going so far as to not even bring up the idea that high-functioning autism is something that should be "cured".

That is true, it was handled pretty well.

...To my memory (which has been known to be faulty), it was River's own choice to try and be "normal". Or something along those lines. Nobody tried to treat it like a big problem.

...That's what I was referring to earlier. Sorry for confusion. IRL it's not treated like it can be cured to me personally, but it's a sort of thing where I feel incredibly uncomfortable accepting "special needs" assistance. I don't want to be treated differently.

edited 9th May '14 1:11:01 PM by TheMike

Heyyy, Diagnosed Aspie here, I hope it's not too late to join in :)

Sure. The discussion topic is probably the best place for serious discussion.

Another aspie over here!

Well. I was diagnosed with Asperger at 6, 18, and at ages beyond Generalized Anxiety and Major Depression...

Out of those 3, I only think one might be correct. Does that count.

Does ADD count? I get distracted easily. Other than that, I think I'm a standard Cloud Cuckoo Lander.

Aspie here, in diagnosed form!

I'm thinking of having us tell our origin stories at the discussion topic. Anyone want to talk about how/when they were diagnosed, there?

I go diagnosed 4 years ago, with high-functioning Aspergers.

What brought about the diagnosis?

I don't have autism, it came up on the testing (I was tested so I can have a diagnosis for the disability people because the college felt I was having trouble, strangely well it also came up at my last college though nothing came of it, and I went to physiotherapy, and speech-therapy in Elementary school nothing came out in high school) but I can read people's faces and get society's rules (well I know them pretty well, and it was pretty instinctual) I do find some of them silly, but that's more things I'm less exposed to (like the norm of woman changing their names occurs to me less, because my mom didn't, since she had my (half)-brother already who had her original last name, and my sister-in-law (married to the brother I just mentioned because she had just got her Ph D a month before marrying so didn't want confusion for that accomplishment also that would both make them Dr.[mom's last name] and that would just be confusing).

Anyways to point I'm really good at verbal (in the I know words sense), and reading comprehension, but rather bad at visual-spatial, and can't do mental math, also I lack a 'working memory' even though the one for learning is quite good, so I can remember what I learned in Grade 8 history more then I can remember say where someone just told me where they are going, unless I write it down because then it goes to long term memory, also I have a written copy . Also lack co-ordination, especially with my left hand more then normal for just being right handed and have poor eye-sight these are related. Technically I have cerebal pulsy(sp) but that's a fairly vague diagnosis (it does not tell you what is unusual it just tells you that there was a brain injury before birth, not what it effected).

So do I count in as a Cloud Cucko Lander ? Also sorry for the long post.

High Level Autistic with social problems in real life. On the internet I can be myself.

I was diagnosed at a young age. I forgot how old I was, though. Reporting in, I guess.

I have Asperger's and ADHD. They make school a living heck...