SweetOnSylvia wrote:
wozeree wrote:
michael517 wrote:
Someone doing laundry in the basement lifts up a piece of dirty clothes and a spider runs away.
The NT - squishes the spider.
The Autistic - follows the spider and studies it.
The Aspie - follows the spider, looks at it for three minutes, then squishes it.
I hate to do this again, but I don't get this one.
I am not sure why the Aspie decides to squish the spider... Is it out of impulse? I do agree that I would follow the spider, study it, and probably find a way of getting the spider in a cup so that I could take him outside...
I do find the first and second one funny... The Aspie one seems more like ADHD...
Its about the spectrum of behavior.
NTs get emotional, and would get grossed out by the spider, and afraid, and immediately stomp on it.
An autistic gets fascinated and cerebral and studies the spider. And not only that, the autistic get OBSESSED with spider, and follows it around the house, and wont stop.
The Aspie is in between the two extremes. Studies the spider for a while, and gets off on it. But then gets bored, and then gets NT (or starts to worry about what is social acceptable in NT society) and THEN stomps the spider.
Left, right, and middle of the spectrum.