Ever felt like animals get AS too?

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Because I know my sister's rabbit Bailey would sure count as a possible candidate. She's a loving little rabbit, but as soon as you try to pick her up she tries to nip your arm off! Any other similar experinces/opinions?

My dog never licks my face or shows me any affection at all. He spends most of his time either in his doghouse, or studying his interest: other dogs' butts.

Yes! I have thought this too. My cat Anne used to get upset sometimes when people petted her, but over time she has gotten better and better about this. She can’t understand clear plastic and will move her paw over it again and again trying to figure out why it won’t go through, she’s done this with mirrors before as well. Also she dose this OCD type thing where she can’t stand to have her food left out and will scratch the floor beside it and meow trying to tell you to put it up.

I have another cat (Remmy) that I think might be bipolar or split personality, because she will be really nice to someone one moment and bit them the next (although she might just be grumpy because she has a lot of hairball problems).

Now, lets make things REALLY interesting. Despite what this site may suggest, I can imagine that intelligent life-forms on other planets would also have what would be classed as AS for their society. I was thinking this when I came up with a character for my story that lives on another another planet, and yet she has AS and has trouble fitting in as well. It's almost as if we could switch places and there'd be no problem at all for either of us to fit in to the new society (apart from our appearances, of course). But I'm getting to far out there.

*calms down*

Back to my sister's rabbit, I thought about this when I went out to greet Bailey in her hutch about a week ago. She'd just come back from 'Rabbit Training' but my sister had found out the hard way that it didn't work, so put her back. I poked my finger through the cage, and Bailey started to lick it, which is always nice. But when I opened the hutch and put my hands down to get her out, she lunged forward and bit the side of my hand, so I closed the hutch. I sat next to the hutch and started to think about why she did that. I knew from browsing the web that Aspie's don't neccessarily want to be 'cured', and that persitant attempts to do so usually don't work, so you can see the relationship there and how this theory was born. I walked off and got back to what I was doing before. Sorry, I went into story-telling mode there for a second!

Thats all right ,I like your storeys....

Last year I had three cats.

One of them was very like me. she wasen't very social, preferred to be on her own and was often bullied by the two other cats.

She could sit in deep thoughts for long periods and forget time.

She was very fond of food, but when they got treats she never get to finish hers cause one of the other cats would steal it from her.

I made sure we'd spend some alone time together, she really liked that.

Something that I'm sure occurs sometimes is that we project our own qualities onto others, including pets. (I tend to believe that people and pets are basically good-natured, even though I know that not all of them are.) Something I'm not so sure about is whether our pets pick up our idiosyncrasies, but I tend to think that they do.

my cat hates other cats, she also seems to have an obsession with bags. if anyone leaves a bag of any sort on the floor, for instance a backpack, laptop bag, or even a plastic shopping bag, she will immediately lie on top of it and go to sleep. any kind of bag at all immediately attracts her attention. she also likes going inside bags if they are left open.

she also enjoys music, especially ambient, experimental music, new age music of any sort, and free jazz. these types of music make her lie on the floor near the speakers and drift into a sort of trance like state, as far as i can tell. she likes reggae as well, but has an aversion to most loud guitar music, (the only exception being certain sonic youth albums) and strongly dislikes the noise from the tv, vacuum cleaners and hairdryers and the like.

i am sure she has more strange idiosyncratic behaviours than just these, but these are the most noticable, and the ones that come to mind immediately, and since we don't live together anymore, i have probably forgotten a few things as well.

I'm sure I've seen a book advertised somewhere called 'All Cats Have Aspergers'! If you know cats you'll know how many characteristics they have that are kind of similar to aspie traits. All their senses are accute - they don't like getting wet or dirty, windy weather, loud noises, strong smells, very hot weather, etc. They tend to be very picky eaters. On the other hand, they have a tendency to sleep on top of all sorts of things like pens, remote controls, scissors, etc, which to me looks unbearably uncomfortable!

I think koalas are a little clumsy and low functioning. They are certainly oblivious to our presence, and totally absorbed in whatever they are doing at the time.

Or maybe eucalyptus just gets them stoned and they're trying to maintain appearances.

Im an alien

Hmm

I've heard that cats are like autistic dogs.

Also that aspies/autistics are like prey animals - you know the ones that eat grass and in turn get eaten by predators.

However - that doesn't fit so well with the cat model - except that dogs (that haven't been trained not to) like to kill cats.

So staring at a critter is something a predator does...

Anyway a rabbit would definitely qualify as a prey animal - you have to let it come up to you, if you chase it, it assumes you are a hungry predator and defends itself with whatever it's got.

Don’t be so daft man!! !( Said in a Jordey accent) . Animals have no need for Aspies unless they need their own scientists. Sometime I wander if that spoof website about Aspies is partly truth. Nutty NTs are diagnosing themselves as Aspies.

One of my cats acts like an Aspie. Maybe that's why I'm so comfortable with him. His sister has to be an NT because she's a pest, but I love her too.