The Stone Faced Boy - an Aspie?

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When I was a kid, I vaguely recall reading a book called The Stone Faced Boy, which stuck with me. The plot had to do with a boy who concealed his emotions, hiding behind a straight face. Someone though... an aunt, I think... saw his heart underneath (I think there was something in there about him rescuing a dog?), and likened him to a geode: stony on the outside, but a beautiful gem on the inside.

Anyway, theme the book stuck with me... and now that I understand AS, I think I know why.

I used to work as an assistant in a school and the children thought I was a robot not a real person.

I thought of Napolean Dynamite as an example, as he is smart, creative, and says stuff like "I see your drinking !% milk, is that cause you think your fat?" he means it in a good way, but messes up totally

Very interesting. I can relate to this. People frequently tell me that I appear to be very calm. This surprises me because I seem always to be in a tumultuos state and imagine that to be evident. I am also told that I appear to be angry when I am not. A history professor once stopped his lecture to ask me if I was angry. I was stunned and embarassed. A young male student sitting in back of me spoke up, "No, that's just the way she looks." He was actually trying to defend me, save me the humiliation, but it came out wrong and got a big laugh from the class. I was actually having a panic attack at the time of the professors question. The guy who sat in back of me had empathy for me and I barely knew him, but certainly appreciated his attempt to come to my aide. I can be thinking about the most blissful thing and appear stone faced or angry. I can be inwardly seething and frothing at the mouth, and no one would have a clue. I have created a quasi smile which I try to remember to wear in public just so folks will let me alone. We can't judge books by their covers, can we?

Yeah it's the same with me Cosmic, when I'm giving talks in my Congeration, people say, no you were cool as a cuclumber, meanwhile I'm sweating bullets, lol, one time a girlfriend of mine said, my friend said you gave him the s**t look in the hall today, and at the time, I was thinking about something that bugged me, and sometimes I practice smiling,

My mother used to get furious with me because I didn't seem to care about anything. "Everything is like water off a duck's back with you!" Of course I did care, but I didn't show it.

I always liked the idea of finding things/people who weren't the most popular choices and secretly knowing what a treasure I had found. It's too bad most people go for the obvious.

Hey Kiki, how about Holden Caulfield, from Catcher in the Rye

Hi, Cadzie. I love to read; but, strangely, Catcher In The Rye is one of the classics I've never read. I looked up some information about Holden Caulfield on Google. He sounds like a wonderful character. I'll definitely have the read it!

No Problem Kiki, you challaged me and I rose to meet it is all, when I was a teen and I read the book I Identified with Holdens feelings, the whole People are Phonies, and such, funny but most Assassins in US have been found with a copy in their pockets

If my feelings showed on my face people would run screeming. Aspurger's has saved the world.