Astrology & Aspergers - is there a connection?

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Week of System Builders - dead on for me

Sorry no cusp tho.

Aquarius-Pisces; Febuary 16-22 (Cusp of Sensitivity)

Right on target for me.

Hate to say some of you are very rude for no reason in this topic. Hope this isn't the first thing new people see if that's how you choose to act.

I am, apparently, an Aries 3 according to your list (born 11 April).

I did a little research on that. This is form www.journalsleep.org
Evidence that environmental factors may act during early
development was provided in three recent studies showing
unusual birth patterns in narcolepsy patients from the Northern
hemisphere.8-10Okun et al. provided data suggestive of a March
peak and September trough in 484 narcolepsy-cataplexy births.8
In a subsequent report based on analyses of databases from clin-
ics in the U.S., Canada, and France, Dauvilliers et al. found in a
significant excess of births in March (11.9%) and a significant
fall-off in births in September (5.6%) in 886 narcolepsy-cata-
plexy births (including 377 from the Okun et al initial sample).9
Finally, Dahmen et al, studying 511 German narcoleptic patients,
found a season of birth effect with a maximum between March
and June and a minimum in September.10Seasonal birth patterns
have been found for other CNS disorders such as Parkinson’s dis-
ease and schizophrenia.

This was not the study I was referring to. If I remember correctly it was based on statistical data from Sweden (could have wrong country). Common practice there to keep a record of birth date on the files of patients with mental disorders (think study mentioned schizophrenia and bipolar). Sorry I can't be more specific, it's been a few years.

It's possible (I doubt it, but if I remember right there are some connections between the time of year you were born and other things - not necessarily directly causative!) that there's a correlation between autism and date of conception. If the astrological nonsense is fixed as to date - so that the Cusp of Whatsit is always on the Nth of Doodah - then that would lead to an apparent connection.

Week of the Child (28 March), right on target here too!

As for narcolepsy, on the contrary. I need to stick to a correct and regular sleeping pattern, otherwise I become drained easily.

I wouldn't write off astrology so quickly, because at least it's fun. Same goes for numerology, but it's tangent here. I don't like superstition and occultism in general, although there always seem to be something interesting around them. It must have something to do with human culture/history.

Vast majority of aspies must have Saturn in their first astrological house and the third house, the one of intelligence, stuffed with planets Btw, I was born on January 27th. The week of genius.

Me:

Cancer 2; July 3-10 (Week of the Unconventional)

I think astrology is crap, but that's just plain funny.

Me:

9th of March, Week of the Loner.

This is too funny

I've come across a study in which a relatively high incidence of schizophrenia in people born in March and April is attributed to mothers contracting the 'flu in critical stages of pregnancy. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the actual article, but it's as good an explanation as any, I suppose. As for the autism/astrology debate, I don't take astrology seriously, but it would be interesting to see if there was a correlation between certain days/weeks/months and incidence of autism. I'd say the same for any psychological disorder, though.

I was apparently born during the Week of the Natural.

Taurus people are always described to be materialistic... I am completely anti-consumerist and wanting of few possessions (though completely unable to get rid of things once I have them).

Taurus isn't always necessarily interested in 'materialism' (in the sense most people would use it) as such... it depends on what's in your money house, and where your Venus lies. Which house your Taurus Sun is in will also determine what flavour of Taurean you are, and other factors.

I'd say house 9 was more aspie. That's the 'higher mind' house, lofty, cerebral, intellectual, philosophical. House 3 is more elementary stuff. I find that folks with a lot of house 3 planets tend to be social chatterboxes.

Actually, Looking through the charts I have, I see that most (not all, though there could be some innacurate birth times throwing things out) of the aspies have a planet or the Midheaven angle in the 9th.

Though, The 3rd is well represented too. If I get time, and it still seems like a good idea, I'll turn this into some proper stats.

Saturn seems to be all over the shop.

I was born on Febuary 17th. The Cusp of Sensitivity. I've always been descrived as "sensitive". Touch, smell and sound are the worst. I also aparently am aware of things most people just can't fathom.

I like to look up astrology just for fun but I never take it seriously. I do take feng shui a little bit more seriously but I don't think it has anything to do with AS. The right feng shui just keeps the room from feeling too crowded or "dense".

That is because they are trying to react in the same way they think a normal would, on this issue they are making a damn fine job of it.

Obviously no one gave them the heads up that if you do not have anything good to say then nothing should be said....

I do not believe in a lot that is said on a spiritual level, but it does have one big advantage over atheism and religion, we do not screw people over for anything as a rule.

I'm on the cusp of a cusp, February 14, for 16-22.. at the same time I don't think I'm 'as Aspie' as others, so, that does make sense.

I used to think astrology was pure nonsense but having looked into it more lately a lot of it does seem to be amazingly on-track.. although I could easily just be making things match the astrology.. but it's something to do

Although astrology is a bit of fun it also shouldn't be taken seriously. I wasn't born an aspie because I was born in March, I was born an aspie because of genetics