Ok so how does the term 'subset thinkers' ring to you folks.

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No more doubt No questions. know to much already. Got it
mind is limited. Over complicated in sorta a multi abstraction: each source of information, contextualized, and dissected, until it will fit in a sorta stereo type grouping , while it all becomes in printed to provide myself a certain simile of normalcy. each context perceived as an emotional imprint that becomes cataloged for my greater understandings of what and how etc. All of which takes energy and time and is not efficient. when NTs did this all in a micro moment (less the moment). before they even blinked. So instead of being genius we are Sub set thinkers I think. Do you like this way of looking at it.

Note this has been edited since people responded. They do not necessarily agree with what I have here.

I have the confidence of understanding. i think


Really the Poll title is a bad stinker. booooooo

And This was a little excessive

And I don't think the term subset anything has any place any where, any more.

I wish I could remove this post.

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Welcome to WP!

While you are still figuring it out, you might want to give the Aspie Quiz a try: http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

Hey, I seem to be in about the same situation as you. I "discovered" Asperger's a couple months ago and although I haven't been officially diagnosed, I'm about 99% certain I have it. I'm 28, btw.

I did the EXACT same thing when I read the Wikipedia entry.


I do things like this, too. I used to memorize tables of useless data, like the process size, speed, number of transitors, etc. for every CPU ever manufactured by Intel or AMD. And I frequently subject my wife to long rants about some obscure thing I've found interest in and can't stop until I'm done. I've learned to supress the urge with other people, though (mostly).

I periodically take my computer COMPLETELY apart, even the steel skeleton of the case, and clean it with q-tips and alcohol. =]


I've been through the same things and I've become kind of a self-described ass, myself. And as far as encoded list thing, I do that, too. I'm a computer nerd so I always describe it as have large rants "saved" in my brain waiting to be interjected in to conversation at the first opportunity. Unfortunately, I'm usually wrong about when to start unloading my rants and all I get in return are blank stares... :/


We are here.

I haven't figured that one out yet.

The majority of non-Aspies, at least in my experience, seem to see it as a flaw, although that is in no way a blanket statement. And in the short time I've been on this site, it seems there is a majority of Apsies that view it as a gift, for the most part, or at the very least wouldn't want to change who they are. But there is a healthy mix of both viewpoints, I think. I'm in the former camp, personally.


I've had that same thought, that it might seem I'm just looking for excuses. But for me, it's been about figuring out who I am and why.

Anyway, welcome!.

Welcome to WP!

I have been trying to delete it might just try some more now, might delete this.