Post an Analogy relating Autism/Aspergers

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It's like seeing in black in white in a place where having the ability to see in colour is necessary.

Interesting, but given our attention to details, I'd say it's the other way around--trying to describe colours to people who see only in black and white. On second thought, maybe we notice details because we're not distracted by the spectrum of colours. Ooh, nevermind, now I'm just confusing myself.

Being a thick, difficult and sophisticated novel stuck with a bunch of comic books.

It's kinda like this thingy, this really hard to describe thingy, but a thingy nonetheless, it's called: life.

All of the "normal" people I've seen have had it just as hard as me, hard in different ways, but just as hard (or easy depending on your point of view); we're all people in the end, no matter how dumb or smart in whatever the current facet is in fad (social, physical, mental, crazy, etcetera).

It's all life, till death.

And that's my analogy.

Daniel, I'm going to qualify this three times before I say it: 1. for what it's worth 2. to the extent possible on an internet forum 3. strictly platonically: I love you.

Depending on which angle you see it, we could be the ones seeing in colour and they're colourblind. It works

It's like being the only person alive and everyones dead.

Pretty cut and dry!

it's like being in a foreign country, you can speak the language very well but no matter how hard u try u will never speak it like a native and unlike most NT's u wont be able to just get up and leave and ur stuck there for the rest of ur life.

another analogy is that ur a high end pc with an AMD processor and lots of hd space but ur slower at some things not to mention ur RAM and harddisks are scrambled with no defrag utility and most other NT's are running INTEL Processors and are incompatible with u and they have defrag utilites and are able to multitask more effeciently.

Post an Analogy relating Autism/Aspergers

Data processing diffficulty glitch caused by one or more imperfect neurons somewhere in the brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron

It is like seeing a needle and taking a lifetime to figure out it was in a haystack

Mastering the subtleties of the NT world is like learning to paint by the numbers.

ruveyn

One saying I like that isn't related to ASD at all but that I use any way:

"Sometimes it feels like I'm diagonally parked in a parralel universe."

I like this one.

Posting mine first, then gonna go back and read all 5 pages. Want to see if there's any that are similar.

The way As effects social skills is alot like dancing skills. Some people can just dance naturally, some people can follow the steps and fake it, and some people simply can't dance.

oh so true. Someone once told me that I might have an easier time of things if I thought less about things, I replied that (no offence) I was constantly amazed that people who thought less than me were capable of speech

my analogy, which I've used to explain it to a good friend of mine when she asked what it was like to be an aspie (and which will hopefully be reused when I explain it to my girlfriend):
"The thing about all those white flowers you see is that they're only white in the area of the light spectrum that humans can see, in the ultraviolet area of the spectrum, they're bursting with colours, signals for the benefit of pollinating insects... Well, I don't actually know how my experience differs from yours, but I imagine being like you is like seeing ultraviolet, socially, all those flowers that look white are actually patterned so beautifully."

There are times when I feel like the technican that made me forgot to program a few social skills in my brain. On the other hand, I'm glad he forgot to put those stupid things in my head. It made room for him to put in a huge imagination and the ability to draw things beyond the usual stickperson that NT's usually draw.