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cyclivist
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13 Sep 2007, 1:09 pm

gwenevyn wrote:

Welcome!

Generally the clincher is whether or not you naturally know and carry out the social expectations in everyday human interaction. Do you know where to put your gaze? Your arms? When to interject comments at a party?

If the key word is "naturally", then I'm not so sure. I really don't know if it's something I've simply learned to do over the years. It certainly appears to come naturally to me now, but I don't think that was the case ten years ago.

Until recently, I rarely met the gaze of people I had a conversation with. Instead, I looked at their noses, close to their eyes, thinking they wouldn't notice the difference. Until an aspie I know asked me why I only look at the nose... Apparently, she picked that up easily, so I suppose that most everyone else did too. Since then, I've started looking into the eyes instead, and that feels completely natural to me now.

Never had a problem with my arms, or comments.

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13 Sep 2007, 2:12 pm

Intelligent, obsessive, touchy but keeping cool. Aspie Secret Agent. Can pass for NT, but can talk aspie.

One of the problems with being smart, who can you talk to?

Aspie is defined by high IQ.

You are a bright person with a few quirks, we are the same with one or two more quirks.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

cyclivist
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13 Sep 2007, 2:45 pm

Inventor wrote:

Intelligent, obsessive, touchy but keeping cool. Aspie Secret Agent. Can pass for NT, but can talk aspie.

I liked that!

gwenevyn
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13 Sep 2007, 6:56 pm

Inventor wrote:

Intelligent, obsessive, touchy but keeping cool. Aspie Secret Agent. Can pass for NT, but can talk aspie.

One of the problems with being smart, who can you talk to?

Aspie is defined by high IQ.

I love the Aspie Secret Agent thing, but I must point out that Asperger's Syndrome is not defined by high IQ.

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12 Jan 2008, 9:58 am

cyclivist wrote:

You raced HPVs? What kinds? I'd love to build me a fully faired recumbent some day. A long wheelbase one. Even cooler would be a fully faired back-to-back tandem recumbent!

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12 Jan 2008, 11:24 am

Welcome cyclivist!

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