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19 Dec 2009, 5:09 pm

"Do you have a soul?"

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19 Dec 2009, 5:18 pm

any question linking aspergers toother things, ie, taste in music, flexibility, empathy

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19 Dec 2009, 6:00 pm

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

Apparently, Martin Luther said back in medieval times that autistics (or at least, people assume by the description he gave that he was talking about autistics) don't have souls, and there's still some that believe it. Might be Jehova's Witnesses - not sure, exactly.

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19 Dec 2009, 10:35 pm

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

W O W. really??!? wow.

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19 Dec 2009, 10:38 pm

Anyone ever gotten "Are you okay?"

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20 Dec 2009, 4:30 am

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"Isn't that when you can't tell when people are joking?"

Me: I have Aspergers.
Other:What's that?
Me: A mild form of Autism.
Other: Isn't that like Rain Man?

Y'know what's funny?

Apparently Dustin Hoffman did study an Autistic kid for a few weeks to prepare for the role, to get a lot of the mannerisms down.

I give him credit for that.

Unfortunately...first of all this was the 1980s when most folks really didn't understand much about Autistic people still.

Second of all, even though he got a lot of the traits...he somehow managed to over-generalize/exaggerate them, and in the process, screw it up considerably.

This resulting inaccurate performance....I believe won him an Academy Award. :oops:

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20 Dec 2009, 4:37 am

Aietra wrote:

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

Just worth noting...this was also the same numbnuts who inspired a certain 3rd -rate dictator to "pick up the pieces" of the collapsed Weimarch Republic, and out an entire ethnicity in the process, and blame them for the troubles of his country.

Perhaps you've heard of the guy.

Yeah, Martin Luther was utterly insane; what's creepy about him is that he not only said to question reason at every turn, but to never challenge faith.

He and Hitler...butt buddies....

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20 Dec 2009, 9:39 pm

starvingartist wrote:

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

W O W. really??!? wow.

Yes. The person was spewing some BS about "seeing the soul in a person's eyes" and what not. She was really wacky mix of New Ager and Pentecostal Christan and had a deep prejudice against things scientific and technical. She might have been a little Schizophrenic.

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20 Dec 2009, 9:41 pm

Aietra wrote:

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

The old superstitions about "changelings" seem to describe autistic people. What's sad is that the language used by the anti-vaccine nuts today is disturbingly similar.

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20 Dec 2009, 9:47 pm

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

Do any of us? :twisted:

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21 Dec 2009, 5:51 am

Lecks wrote:

Odin wrote:

"Do you have a soul?"

Do any of us? :twisted:

we are all demons :twisted:

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21 Dec 2009, 5:57 am

Is that why you wear Depends?

What difference does it make? We all have problems.

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21 Dec 2009, 1:41 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

What difference does it make? We all have problems.

True

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21 Dec 2009, 2:02 pm

Callista wrote:

"So... can you tell me what day I was born on?"

Silly people.

There was a Babysitters Club book with an autistic girl who did that.

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21 Dec 2009, 2:11 pm

Kristy and the Secret of Susan.

Susan was a savant unfortunately. She was severely autistic and had the calendar thing in her head and could hear the song only once and recite it and play the piano without learning the music. She could sing and say what day something happened on or what day someone was born on.

But thank god in the other book Inside Out, the autistic kid wasn't a savant but he was severely autistic but he built things out of blocks and stuff. At least Ann M Martin knows not all autistic kids were the same. She's worked with them before.

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21 Dec 2009, 3:31 pm

"what sort of clever are you?"

"i would love to inject myself with aspergers" <

"but you seem normal "

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