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02 Jun 2011, 7:28 pm

OldFashioned wrote:

Men are after all completely different to women in their behaviour.

No, not really.

Panic wrote:

you can easily tell she dosent have aspergers by the different tone pitches in her voice and her use of facial expressions

No, you can't. "Having a monotone" and "flat effect" isn't a requirement for an AS diagnosis. Having unusual prosody is fairly typical, though, and of course having flat effect can contribute to a diagnosis.

And having watched the video, she seems to use about as much facial expression as I do - that is to say, not a whole lot.

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02 Jun 2011, 7:36 pm

Verdandi wrote:

OldFashioned wrote:

Men are after all completely different to women in their behaviour.

No, not really.

Panic wrote:

you can easily tell she dosent have aspergers by the different tone pitches in her voice and her use of facial expressions

well if she does have AS shes going to get by alot better then the ones without tones and facial expression

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02 Jun 2011, 7:41 pm

Panic wrote:

well if she does have AS shes going to get by alot better then the ones without tones and facial expression

That's an interesting theory, and almost certainly wrong. Just having facial expressions and vocal tone doesn't mean she's going to come across as having the expected facial expressions or vocal tones, nor does it mean she's going to get by better than others because the entirety of autism is not affect and prosody.

I don't see the point of trying to guess who is doing better or worse than anyone else. It strikes me as a terrible game.

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02 Jun 2011, 7:57 pm

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Okay, I have aspergers too and yes I am very eccentric and when I was younger I would interrupt the teacher in class to say something about something random or say very weird stuff but today I was looking for videos on Asperger on youtube and came across this girls channel... She seemed more hyperactive than aspie to me, it was so weird, in her other videos she seems more aspie like, what do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COn8UK88WE

It kinda freaked me out to see her do that and I felt kind of ashamed of having asperger... But is this kind of behaviour normal for us aspies? Maybe I was like that too when I was younger... I don't remember... Anyway it was extremely embarrassing to me.

To me it looks like she's developed a fairly strong tendency to "play up" to being AS - that's a danger everyone should be aware of I think...

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02 Jun 2011, 8:13 pm

Haha I have my own eccentricities.... she is childish! I do the weirdest of the things when I am overwhelmed during a situation... I do bounce...

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02 Jun 2011, 8:19 pm

I used to know a girl who was passionate about dancing.
therefore she'd dance in the middle of a class ; she was an Aspie, amd she didn't understand it was socially "unacceptable"
honestly though, that's how she became my friend. I used to do things like that, so we became friends.
plus, she kicks ass at dancing!

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03 Jun 2011, 12:36 am

....I find her awkwardly adorable, and I want to steal her bear hat. :U
Maybe she's just feeling hyper. IDK

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03 Jun 2011, 1:03 am

If she's hyper it's hyperactivity on slow motion.
Nothing weird about it at all. It's probably an acceptable amount of enthusiasm which people love.
My hyperactivity is making noises, jumping up an down like a kangaroo, poking people, and just saying whatever is on my mind. I get in trouble a lot for being too loud. She looks like she is actually thinking about what to say.
As a kid I used to run around like an animal on all fours. I was more withdrawn then but then at random times I'd get these bursts of hyperactivity.

We on the spectrum, we're all different. Some are more inactive than others and some extremely so. Hyperactivity can be a part of AS or if it's uncontrollable then it's co-morbid.

But she was cute with a cute hat. She was a few tics. Her vocal tic reminds me of Craig Nicholls and all the interesting sounds he makes in between playing songs live. But he's putting it on.

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03 Jun 2011, 1:13 am

Sounds to me like Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (For example, interrupting, saying random, often times entirely irrelevant statements, alongside hyperactivity and impulsiveness.) I have it, too. Along with Asperger Syndrome. Both conditions can correspond with each other, or so I was informed.

It could be just the way she is. Everybody is different, after all.

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03 Jun 2011, 3:20 am

Verdandi wrote:

Panic wrote:

well if she does have AS shes going to get by alot better then the ones without tones and facial expression

Pff this is so complex you cant just say that she gets by better, peoples expectations are a lot harsher depending on the first impression you give of. So say you have someone who is obviously not communicating the same way as you, you keep that in mind. BUT if you see a person similair to yourself you will expect him to think the same etc wich results in far more misunderstanding.

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03 Jun 2011, 3:34 am

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you can easily tell she dosent have aspergers by the different tone pitches in her voice and her use of facial expressions

No, you can't. "Having a monotone" and "flat effect" isn't a requirement for an AS diagnosis. Having unusual prosody is fairly typical, though, and of course having flat effect can contribute to a diagnosis.

And having watched the video, she seems to use about as much facial expression as I do - that is to say, not a whole lot.

That is true. Panic, you obviously don't have Aspergers if you can notice the different tone pitches in her voice and facial expression...

See I can write rubbish too.

How do we know that she hasn't got an undiagnosed co-morbid? Some of those odd noises sounded like tics to me.

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03 Jun 2011, 3:54 am

can we please stop playing amateur psychiatrists, it is just horrible to speculate about it.

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04 Jun 2011, 4:36 am

She reminds me of the teenage me. I was very random, giggled a lot and was quite spazzy. I miss being like that

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04 Jun 2011, 12:40 pm

Bleu wrote:

She reminds me of the teenage me. I was very random, giggled a lot and was quite spazzy. I miss being like that

oh my gosh, I know right. I used to be bubbly and cute
now I'm not as muchh:/

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04 Jun 2011, 1:10 pm

I think it's safe to say she's less than high functioning. I mean it's one thing to be jumpy and hyper (i used to be), but that's a little on the extreme side. Just MHO.

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04 Jun 2011, 4:03 pm

I'd have to say drunk.

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