auntblabby wrote:
SocOfAutism wrote:
I have actually been studying this for awhile, and it's my opinion that the "creepy" feeling comes from the neurotypical getting the subconscious idea that the aspie is pretending to be a regular person. As if a spy from a different country showed up in their social circle, dressed normal, except he clearly didn't know what a telephone was and his pants were on inside out.
or it could just be as simple as the aspie is different, in much the same way as a foreigner is different, they get a lot of the same askance glances.
Yes, but with a very different culture. People in the US, Africa, and Europe are fairly interchangeable until they speak, but also many other cultures are virtually identical in things like the space people keep between themselves when interacting, the way they eat, sit, walk, live in houses, and so on.
Here's an example. My friend once did this to me on purpose, messing with me. He is a gay man who works out, and we had been friends for years. I was in a store and a man came up behind, put his arms around me, hugging me tenderly, with his head pressed against my hair. All I saw were tan, muscular arms. Then he just stood there for a few beats too long. It was one of the scariest and weirdest moments of my life. Finally he let go and I was VERY relieved to see it was my friend and not some crazy person. He was being funny, but it was an example of how it's creepy when someone doesn't use appropriate social skills.