I think my dog has Aspergers

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I think my cat had Asperger's but that may be because she was getting old and her mind was going out so it made her act weird in new situations.

[quote="Asperger96"]Humans: Can get Asperger's

Cats: Suspected to have Asperger's

Dogs: Now they have Asperger's

It's Spreading...

I can't wait for Aspie Bees so we can eat Aspie Honey[/quote

I love that! You remind me so much of one of my grand children. He is awesome as well.]

The comment about autistic bees made me aware that I have autistic hair. Unlike autistic people [and dogs and cats and bees] my hair was not BORN autistic. it was in fact NT with all of the traits NT's appreciate. It was soft, smooth and manageable. I was complimented often on how stylish it was.

Now, since chemo, my hair has grown in autistic. It is wild and totally unmanageable.[ EInstein hair] It does not fit in to the socially acceptable popular hair groups such as straight, shiny, curly, wavy. It seems to be a little of each and not enough of any. I have actually been told that I have weird hair and that if I really TRIED I could get it to behave in more socially acceptable ways. Well, I have attempted to reason with my hair ["Don't you care about what others think of you? If you would allow some fairly simple changes, you might - though it would be on the lower end- be able to pass as normal, acceptable hair.] but my hair doesn't even TRY anymore. It did try for awhile before it demanded that I only wash it and just let it be what it is.

So, I've finally shown my hair the respect it has always deserved. My hair, in turn, returns that respect by not grousing when I slip on a wig, hat or turban, thus proving that 2 autistics can peacefully coexist with each other.

mine doesn't but i wish he did. he goes out whenever he feels like it instead of following routine.

I guess my hair was autistic. I could never keep it neat like everyone else and kids thought I never brushed it. But yet there was a girl at my bus stop who had split ends and she got offended when I asked her if she brushes her hair. Kids ask me the same thing too. But yet no one ever gave her a hard time about her hair and took offense too when I asked her but yet no one else took offense when kids would ask me that same question.

If my hair is short above my shoulders, then it's NT.

I think of all cats as being aspies, and all dogs as being NTs.

But I just got through reading a bunch of wiki articles about odd fringe dog breeds that either dont bark (like the Besenji), or rarely bark( like the dingo).

But when these breeds hang out with groups of mainstream dog breeds some individuals will learn to bark like mainstream dogs, but some (even siblings of individuals who learn) dont learn. As if these breeds are not wired to bark all of the time, and but some can learn 'the social cues' of other breeds- with some individuals being better than others at that. Kinda some aspies learn to mimick nt behavior better than others. Just a thought.