why do people often associate aspies with computers???

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I also don't use voice in MMOs. I've tried it in Second Life, but it makes me feel awkward and nervous.

This too.

Currently, I'm considered a "good" writer; however, in school, I was never a "good" writer until about 8th grade when computers and typing began to be incorporated into the classroom. Computers eliminated most of the problems I had with writing via a pencil.

And I dig what you're saying about having to "talk" in class. My grades were always being dinged on account of "class participation." As for public schools in the U.S., I tend to think they exist more for training students for jobs in Corporate America Inc. than they do to facilitate actual learning.

And I'm primarily an "associative thinker." The internet was MADE for people with my thinking style.

I was interested in computers since 1977. Started studying programming in 1980 on a terminal that was essentially a typewriter (with sprockets to feed the big zigzag piles of computer paper through it) attached to a telephone linked to a computer miles away.
Then studied it after school and worked as a systems analyst developing the intelligence for expert systems.
I'm not in that line anymore, but still often get called on to troubleshoot people's PCs, having never owned one myself (got Macs because the system's better designed and integrated).
Computers either work or they don't. If they don't there's a reason which can be found and rectified. ... Much easier to understand than seemingly random breakdowns between people (is my reasoning)

That said, assuming therefore that aspies ALL have the same interest is probably just a lazy generalisation. Could it also be as result of the (albeit limited) portrayal as such in broadcast fiction (eg: big bang theory)?

Then again, most programmers and IT staff I've ever come across were not aspies (as far as I know or can tell)

We're clever and confusing. A lot of people find computers clever and confusing. Stupid people consider confusing and not confusing a binary value and so all things confusing are clumped together. Primarily, in this case, aspies and computers.

Maybe it's cause we talk like Microsoft Sam.

Same here. In grade 7 or 8 I ended up being loaned what was essentially a little electronic type writer. The difference in my work astounded the teachers.

To be honest, it's because we have no social lives, and the internet is a good way for us autistics to communicate with the world.

Because brains and computers function in similar ways... and the analogy is easier for many NT's to understand.

1. A lot of Aspies are good at programming.
2. A lot are geeks too.
3. The Internet. Aspies like the Internet because it's easier to communicate online.

Well I think the ''people who like computers are geeks'' stereotype is getting old now, because almost every single NT I know owns a computers and spends a lot of time on it. In fact, where I come from, it is considered ''cool'' to have a computer and before I got this new laptop I got criticised by typical NTs that I don't have one.

I got 3 NT cousins who done computer courses at college for a couple of years. I know a very extroverted, sociable NT who's hobby is computers and he carries his laptop around with him everywhere he goes. I also know another ''typical'' NT who loves computers so much that he builds them, and has now got a job where he's working with computers because he enjoys it.

So.....