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 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Autism as an Archetype

rooooby
 Post subject: Re: Autism as an Archetype
Posted: 13 Jun 2017, 6:40 pm 

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I'm interested in this idea of the autist as 'shaman'. The tech-focused programmer autist, such as myself, mediates between the human world and the logical, ordered world of the computer.

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Dominant thought patterns and Aspergers

rooooby
Posted: 27 May 2017, 3:39 am 

Replies: 18
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lukemc1980, The dominating and hyper narrow-focus on an interest or thought is something you see quite a bit with AS. I lack the energy to go into detail on this currently, however, based on what I have experienced it can seriously cause havoc. And yes, of course, it can be of use in some situation...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Dominant thought patterns and Aspergers

rooooby
Posted: 27 May 2017, 3:37 am 

Replies: 18
Views: 5,266
Another strange thing has to do with time. I can wake up at the exact same time nightly, without an alarm clock. It's usually five thirty, but lately it's been four a m. I can also leave to drive somewhere in my car, someplace I have to be right on time for, and get there right at the exact time I ...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Do Autistic people think they're better than everyone else?

rooooby
Posted: 25 Apr 2017, 3:20 am 

Replies: 50
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No, not in the moral sense. I feel I have advantages in not having to filter everything I think and say through a social filter, that can filter out truth because it's not socially acceptable. I feel sorry for people trapped in the constant fear of social exclusion. Only people like us who never ach...

 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion   Topic: What is weaponized autism?

rooooby
Posted: 23 Apr 2017, 5:12 pm 

Replies: 31
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I love the expression 'weaponized autism'. I am 47 and autism diagnoses were only just starting to happen when I was a kid. I was the 'weird kid' and from what I know now, I would have been diagnosed with Aspergers back in the 1980s if it was more of a 'thing' then. All my life, I've been a bit asha...
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