What are your main thoughts that make u AS

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Just trying to see what you think.

*facepalm*

Specifics, man!

"i exist"

Thoughts don't make you AS. Behaviour makes you AS.

Frustration with communicating with certain people.

No, your neurology makes you AS. The behavior (and thoughts) are just observable markers of the neurology that makes up the autistic brain.

Aw, disappointed. Back to the old bait questions. Just when I thought I could trust you, man...

Dyingofpoetry 6, Corp900 1

What exactly are you doing to earn points in this contest, dying?

I obviously can't answer that any better than an NT could answer "what thoughts make you NT?"

Every time that I can tell Corp is being a troll, I get a point. Every time appears sincere, he gets a point!

LOL

Couldn't you score points by accusing him of trolling when he's being sincere, given who's keeping score?

You're right, although - funnily enough - I was thinking of your post on another thread about the DSM being based on behaviour, not on mental states (e.g. DSM-V mentioning sensory behaviour rather than sensory overload).

The word "makes" is also ambiguous: it can mean "causes" in the scientific sense, or it can mean something more like "indicates". In the latter case, the OP would be right in saying that certain thoughts "make" you autistic in the same way that having little red dots all over your skin "makes" you a rubella or rubeola victim.

So ... thoughts ... behaviour ... neurology ... genetics. Each "makes" you autistic in different ways.

Behaviour is the outward expression of the way we understand the world and our place in it.

I never understood body language or the purpose of flirting. I do not understand flirting to this day. I either like someone or I don't. I don't pretend I am attracted to someone if I am not.
I don't get dancing or clubbing either. I think it is stimming for NTs.
I am extremely rigid in my musical taste.
My use of language was pedantic. In my native Bulgarian language I was a pest and incessantly corrected people. I won a lot of chocolate bars from people who would disagree with me and place a bet. I have been living abroad for 12 years and although I am fluent in the language, inaccuracy does not bother me.

I do not relate well to women. I have given up on Women's Bible Study and started attending seminary instead.
I don't know why they call it a Bible study, their Bible knowledge is poor and superficial and all they want to do is rant about their pseudo problems. I have been accused of not showing empathy in cases no empathy was deserved.

And many, many more.

Well, for all practical effects, are your behaviour that makes you AS, not the neurology.

My slightly larger brain makes me autistic, not my thoughts.

I have social anxiety, I don't understand what people say, I dont' get along with people my own age, I use fluent language.


But it makes me who I am