Do we feel robotic?

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We talk in a formal way.
We have an awkward posture.
We speak like textbooks.
We dress differently from the crowd.
We go into meltdowns.
We stim.(Some of us.)
We aren't flexible with rules.
We have our own special interests.
We can't recognize facial expressions.
We take things concretely.
We are very precise.
We tend to get into a sensory overload.(Don't know what that is.)
We(Some of us do.) have a compulsion to correct others.

With terms such as, sensory overload, meltdowns, and repeating phrases, we sound like robots, probably during a malfunction.

How do you feel? Do you agree?

If we were robots..people would like us better(everybody loves robots...don't they?)Come to think of it, they only like robots to be able to boss them around...sounds about right from my life experience.

I think most of the "malfuntion" is caused by throwing the robots in a swimming pool. I would have a lot less "malfuntions" if I was in an environment that was more condussive to the operation of a robot.

If you think about most of the malfuntions, they are also because we are robots not programed(wired) to function well when presented with mis-information...I've seen a lot of SciFi stories based on causing a "melt-down" in robots/computers because they are given contridictory information...and isn't that what the world has the most of? I also don't think most of those things listed are "bad" but that the world is structured to play on the strengths of people who are wired differently...need for more socializing/NVC/desensate.

That said...I "crash" alot and it does get frustrating.

This unit doesn't feel like a robot [click...whirr].

I've been labelled a walking dictionary, but never a robot.

These ones don't apply to me but the rest do, to a greater or lesser extent. However, I've always thought of myself more as an alien than a robot. I can't say I've ever felt mechanical, and the truth is, we do have emotions and real feelings unlike robots. It's just that we might appear robotic due to not always showing our emotions in a conventional way, or hiding them altogether. As I said, I've often felt like an alien, but never like a robot. I'm too individual to be a robot.

Maybe we are part alien. Or have more alien code in our DNA than NTs do.

I'll stick to 'alien'.

I like Alien, but I won't mind robot. I operate in terms of a robot anyway. I hate it when this one guy tells me to quit acting like a robot when I refer to myself or things in robotic like terms. I just do it because its easier. I don't like that guy much. -Power Girl

I've been accused of many things. Robot has never been one of them.

When I was a kid I told my mother I was an alien. She never forgot that. Turned out I was right.

I have had that too. Silly humans. As for feeling robotic, I do on some days, but only when I have too much Face to Face time around people. It's like my system shuts down for a defrag. Luckily my husband is le geek so he gets it when I say I need to reboot my head. Anyway we are made of tiny little bio machines and chemical factories operating at a cellular level. We are the Bio-Borg already now we have confusers and the internets.

Another theory...we are aliens planted in human husks that feel so neurologically different from the husks on home planet that we never quit feel comfortable in them(or sometimes get confused in how to operate them. Maybe some research money into studying this theory???) If they find our alien DNA they will just call it a "faulty gene"...so blinded by their own homosapien centrists ,these humans.

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Now you are going all L. Ron Hubbard. Hey that's how we could all make some money. Start a WP cult!

No way...I think all his aliens are "evil"?...I was thinking more along the lines of "Stranger In A Strange Land"...now that is an aspie bible I would promote.

Cults sound ilie a great idea but I don't like Kool-aid

^ Except that he sacrificed himself like a lamb to slaughter for no good reason.

I feel more like a peaceful alien creature who sometimes is forced to jump hoops like an earthling would.

Closest I've ever gotten to being called a robot is when a girl in 7th grade told me I walk like I've got springs in my feet. I used to pretend to my friends in elementary school that I was actually an alien, though. I felt like one anyway, so I might as well play the part.

I dont feel like a robot.

Robots cant show emotions. i can... just not very well. And sometimes not in the right way..

i am unique,,,waaaay,...

Alien is cool though

I quite like the sound of being an alien.

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