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yes, they often are, but not always in the usually quantifiable and measurable ways.
the new avatar is my best friend Peggy. i love her so much. she sleeps in my room under my litte single bed and she snores. i can lean my hand down to her at night and pat her and she likes that. i give her a good firm tussle around the neck. she comes most places with me and is a local identity in my small town.
she brings joy to people...as animals do. 
13 Mar 2009, 2:28 am
13 Mar 2009, 2:48 am
ruveyn wrote:
jamesp420 wrote:
I've wondered about this for a while, because it's supposed to be like the "little professors" disability and I'm technically a genius, but I don't know that much about Asperger's.
I rather doubt that all (of any class) are smart. Some are and some are not. The average IQ of AS folk might be a bit higher than the rest of the population, but IQ is not the total measure of smarts. People skills fit in there somewhere and I suspect that AS folk might be on the low end of that spectrum.
Do not confuse verbal facility or glibness with intelligence.
ruveyn
Thank you for your post - ruveyn, do you teach Aspies? Unsure, given your post above.
And, true, like any population, Aspies are heterogeneous. But there truly are genius AS/HFAs and many (not just a few) of our greatest scientist, mathematicians, artists, etc are Autists! Science is my passion and I will contribute. I am cognitively gifted (and also very shy....implies 'translating' my thoughts is hard). But good question, OPster.
Hi to Peggy from the Lab Pet
13 Mar 2009, 2:57 am
millie wrote:
yes, they often are, but not always in the usually quantifiable and measurable ways.
the new avatar is my best friend Peggy. i love her so much. she sleeps in my room under my litte single bed and she snores. i can lean my hand down to her at night and pat her and she likes that. i give her a good firm tussle around the neck. she comes most places with me and is a local identity in my small town.
she brings joy to people...as animals do.
the new avatar is my best friend Peggy. i love her so much. she sleeps in my room under my litte single bed and she snores. i can lean my hand down to her at night and pat her and she likes that. i give her a good firm tussle around the neck. she comes most places with me and is a local identity in my small town.
she brings joy to people...as animals do.
my dog enjoys that too, as well as a game of chase and wrestling, which I end up getting little bite marks all over me. she's a jack russell. looks kind of similar to yours.
actually my dog jack looked exactly like peggy.
13 Mar 2009, 3:36 am
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pensieve wrote:
millie wrote:
yes, they often are, but not always in the usually quantifiable and measurable ways.
the new avatar is my best friend Peggy. i love her so much. she sleeps in my room under my litte single bed and she snores. i can lean my hand down to her at night and pat her and she likes that. i give her a good firm tussle around the neck. she comes most places with me and is a local identity in my small town.
she brings joy to people...as animals do.
the new avatar is my best friend Peggy. i love her so much. she sleeps in my room under my litte single bed and she snores. i can lean my hand down to her at night and pat her and she likes that. i give her a good firm tussle around the neck. she comes most places with me and is a local identity in my small town.
she brings joy to people...as animals do.
my dog enjoys that too, as well as a game of chase and wrestling, which I end up getting little bite marks all over me. she's a jack russell. looks kind of similar to yours.
actually my dog jack looked exactly like peggy.
oh your dog sounds wonderful. i am so happy to hear that.
and LabPet, i will pass on a hello to Peggy from you.
as for autistic thinkers - there is a lot of brilliance and individualised thinking which is what i love. i really do enjoy people who think outside the box. and i see this amongst a number of people on WP. Not everyone. But more than i have seen anywhere else. It is the individualised approach i am drawn to, more than the traditionally quantifiable 'intelligence' as it is called. it is very wonderful. When i come across it, i am full of hope for humanity.
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