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31 Jan 2008, 10:11 am

Do you think you can be a socially inept adult and not be an aspie?


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31 Jan 2008, 10:12 am

Affirmative


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31 Jan 2008, 10:15 am

Yup, I have met several.


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31 Jan 2008, 10:18 am

probably I have too.. but i wonder if they are non-neurotypical in some way, such as ADHD...

But, im talking proper NTs here.


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31 Jan 2008, 10:28 am

I think some do walk the earth.


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31 Jan 2008, 11:13 am

There are people like that,there are wild children who behave like the animals they lived with as family.



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31 Jan 2008, 12:07 pm

Yes.



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31 Jan 2008, 12:44 pm

Mikomi wrote:
Yes.


I'll second that.


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31 Jan 2008, 12:48 pm

Am would think so,seeing as a person requires more than just social impairment to be aspie.


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31 Jan 2008, 1:19 pm

There are other diagnoses, including schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders, which are associated with being socially inept.


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