greenturtle74’s Cartoon Guide to Asperger’s

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Maybe, I'm not supposed to but I laughed. I dug the weird, wired--clever. Word play always good! I dug the "He smells like pepperoni!" The doodle vs. washing machine was brilliant! thanks for making me smile after a very straight-faced day.

With reference to greenturtle's supermarket cartoon, how many different noises, songs and styles of music can the human brain cope with in the space of half an hour?

My guess is that hearing many different styles of music played one after another is a very recent phenomenon. In the old days before mass communication, people didn't have a lot of choice: they synced up to the music of their own tribes. I think they were culturally entrained to their own music.

After going into a shop or noisy space, the inside of my head sounds like one of DJ Earworm's remixes.

A headbanging remix inside my head.
It makes me want to bang my head against the nearest brick wall.
A banging headache too.
In my mind, the announcer woman gets mixed up with the radio DJ superimposed over a backbeat with another woman/man wailing over the same four chords over and over again. The woman wailing her love song recorded her hit thousands of miles away.
After going in the shop, the mashed up song in my head sounds something like:

Baby...baby...wicka-wicka-wack...why not try our new...I love you...Mr Johnson please report to extension...buy now and save...waa!...beep! Beep!...New York...your local...oh yeah! Make up break up...join now and get a discount!

Then people wonder why I find it hard to concentrate or hold a meaningful conversation.
The thing going on inside my head is very funky and overlapping.

I like different styles of music. I really do. I don't how many different styles I can cope with at once. It all gets blended together and rereremixed. Hours after I hear the songs, they replay and merge in my head.

I even find myself making up my own songs and tunes to the same chords and rhythms that keep rolling around again and again.

I wonder about how musicians' brains are wired or if they notice that they are reusing the same chords, tunes and rhythm structures over and over again...

I suppose if the words are different it doesn't really matter...

I agree - the ipod gave us random shuffle - that and the marketing ploy of trying to please all the people all of the time, which is why we get supermarket mixes of country, pop, R&B, etc. etc. warmed over, bland, and non-threatening.


I like mash-ups to a certain extent, and I always involuntarily "remix" my favorite songs in my head -- I think I improve upon them .

Certain artists do use the same chords and structures over and over - they aren't the real musicians, they're the cookie cutter entertainers, groomed and paid big bucks to please a certain demographic and sell a product. ... and they don't really matter.

Dear Greenturtle, I'm new here, just found your creation; brilliant! Sylkat

Great Cartoons greenturtle74javascript:emoticon(':)'), I like the one that says "I'm not wierd . . . I'm just wierd differently"

almost all describes me, ,except face blindness

Faceblindedness, eh? Didn't know that was a thing.

Would occasionally run into someone who would be like "OH, HEY, ZIPPYZ, I KNOW YOU" then I'm like "wait, do I know you?"

I always have attributed it to some people just having better memories than me.


Also, I seem to not be subject to sensory overload, but I do feel like certain aesthetics influence me more than others, like the color and associated purpose of a place. (Home is for relaxing and lounging; as long as I'm here I can get nothing done! D: )

wow sounds like me soo much =)
I soo need to show this too all my ignorant NT friends.
cause a lot fo my NT friends are faremy accepting n familiar on some way with ASD

Greenturtle -

I just wanted to let you know that I am on my way to lulu.com to order 10 more copies. The 5 I originally ordered have already found new homes. I always carry at least one with me and I share them with people who work with my son, or have family members with AS.

My husband has AS and has had to deal with HR at his office to get a cubicle off the main pathway. I gave him a copy to take in to show the HR person. It has now made its way on to another co-worker who was just diagnosed with AS.

I took copies in to my son's former school and loaned one to the director, since there are still more kids there with AS. Another one went to the secretary whose grandson has AS. They have both asked me to order copies for them.

Another one went to my son's mental health therapist. She is starting to get a lot of AS kids in her practice. So, I will give her at least 2 copies so that she can keep one in the office while having one to loan out to clients.

I have 2 other families I plan to share the book with. Each family has a son who has either recently been diagnosed, or is in the process of getting the diagnosis. In both cases, the child is not reacting very well to the diagnosis. I am hoping your book will help them see the humor and that it is not a horrible "disease".

Everyone I have shared the book with really likes it. Both adults and children enjoy it and come away with a better understanding of AS.

I just wanted you to know that your little cartoons are getting out there and helping people.

Thanks!

"Yeh yeh yeh, c'mon ET, let's get some lunch."

anyway this is great, i'm like that in almost every way except face blindness, and sometimes I can be pretty social.
My favorite one is "He smells like pepperoni"... except for me it's that if something is typed I notice what font it is first before I read it.

hey greenturtle, may i re-draw your drawing about crowds? I love the concept and it explaines me so well. Only thing is i wanna put it on a T-shirt cause its soo awsome =)
-Ket

Love your cartoon greenturtle!!

That was great. I love it!

Teredia -

I don't know why GreenTurtle hasn't responded. But, if you go to www.dudeimanaspie.com, you can find shirts of some of the cartoons. I don't see one of the crowds, but you might be able to ask there if he would be willing to make it available.

I hope this helps.

LOL . The little dudes look like the capt crunch characters or Hagar the Horrible ( that little funnies comic in the paper ).

Hi, sorry for the late response. Yes, I do have T-shirts for sale, and I can create one with the crowds cartoon if you are interested - just let me know!