New Video: Alex Plank speaks at Asperger lecture series

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Bravo! Bravo Alex!

I don't know. I do know people used to poke fun at me for overuse of hand gestures. And other mannerisms that I couldn't tell the difference between normal and not. Yet they seemed to notice something.

In public speaking one learns to keep hand gestures to a minimum, but I kept forgetting and using hand gestures anyway. I took public speaking in high school, and enjoyed giving speeches to the point where I was elected as class representative, but still couldn't talk very well informally.
Nowadays, that's pretty difficult for me.

I'm not sure I answered your question... except that, I don't really know.

In my experience, people on average will giggle or even cackle in reaction to anything...uncomfortable. Some things are funny [the bit about the theistic clubs having to go out and look for new members got me to smirk], so people laugh at them as expected; other things are perplexing, for whatever reason, so people laugh at them through lingering atavistic instinct: lower primates bear their teeth at threats; higher ones, like humans, have ameliorated to laughter.

Or, as Alex explained: they thought it was funny. Which I suppose is about the same as comparing I climbed the mountain because it was there to I climbed it because my extinct ancestors climbed things and I retain an unexplainable instinct to get to the top of trees and mountains and--look, it was there, okay? I don't know why I do these things. Lawl.

I know tow people with asperger syndrome who did a talk at the National Austitic Society I Exist Campaing, which was really brave of them as it can be quite nerve racking talking to a large group of people.

Alex,

Thank you for creating WP & your video was wonderful.