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Gedrene
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21 Nov 2011, 5:34 pm

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One Entie mentioned on another website that it seems (to her) that Aspies get so hung up on details that they lose sight of the big picture, such as when an Aspie gets so fixated on a speaker's crooked teeth that the Aspie never hears the speaker saying, "I love you".


That's garbage. An NT is more likely than an autistic to care about whether someone has crooked teeth. Appearances don't matter as much.



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23 Nov 2011, 1:35 am

Gedrene wrote:
Fnord wrote:
One Entie mentioned on another website that it seems (to her) that Aspies get so hung up on details that they lose sight of the big picture, such as when an Aspie gets so fixated on a speaker's crooked teeth that the Aspie never hears the speaker saying, "I love you".


That's garbage. An NT is more likely than an autistic to care about whether someone has crooked teeth. Appearances don't matter as much.


Those are my thoughts exactly. Looks don't matter to me. I'm also not a perfectionist. I had an NT friend who was a perfectionist, even though she wasn't perfect herself. She was always going on about people's teeth and lips and so fourth. According to her standards, you had to have perfect teeth, a washboard stomach for both genders and thin lips. I disagree with all of those opinions.


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