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"So a woman is at her own mother's funeral. There she meets the man of her dreams and falls madly in love. So they talk at the funeral. But then the woman never gets the guy's number or vise versa. She has no way to contact him. Then she kills her sister.
Why did she kill her sister?"

In a classroom full of people, all asked this question, I alone could answer it. It seems incredibly simple to me. Yet I've found no one else capable of answering the question. Because I alone have so far answered it and for other reasons I may discuss later, I think I might have been able to answer this question because of my aspergers. If that is true, it might say something about the autistic thought process.

So, can any aspies or auties find the answer?
Don't cheat and look at other posts.

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To meet the guy again at her sister's funeral.
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It must be just you, and not the spectrum, because I honestly had no idea. Props for being the only one in the class though!

It seems more a psicopath than an Aspie reasoning, nevertheless is because she wants to meet the guy again (or she has discovered later that he is in relation with his sister). In both cases is a pretty stupid reasoning because:
case a) If he is a friend of the mother that doesn't imply that he is a friend of the sister.
case b) Not every people can be taken off particullary sensible period of their life.

And after all killing someone for love is pretty stupid.

"So he comes to her funeral" is the answer you want, I suppose, but it is not a good one. People do not generally murder their own family members as a means of contacting strangers, even strangers they love! Very few people would do that, and while the implication from the question is that the person in question is one of those very few people, I'm not surprised if it baffles the audience. ^^

(edited to change "not is" to "is not" )

Last edited by Ambivalence on 14 Dec 2009, 6:23 am, edited 1 time in total.

My brother told me this scenario and said it was a technique for identifying sociopaths. I don't know, with your Asperger's maybe your analytical skills kicked in. The "right" answer never occurred to me.

I didn't mention the sociopath thing because I thought it might scare some people off. I'm positive I'm not a sociopath by the way.

I figured it might have something to do with the Asperger's "analytical skill" as you say, and that's why I wanted to see if others could answer the question.


Another thing, I know the answer to the question isn't a good reason. It's just the only fitting reason you can deduce strictly from the question.

Yeah, I don't know how much credence this has for identifying sociopaths. It may have been a good indicator of my analytical skills though, because I got it wrong.

My dad asked me this once I thought the answer was obvious! He then joked about me being a a murderer one day...