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What an interesting fellow....

Garble is a mystery: Is he a foreigner with only tenuous grasp of English? Is he on drugs? Does he suffer a serious mental debility? Is he typing wearing boxing gloves? Garble's rampant typos, malapropisms and execrable grammar can't be blamed solely on poor typing skills. Garble is all the more puzzling because if one manages to hack his way through the tangled muddle of his messages a discernable idea will often emerge. For example, in a forum discussion about a painting he might say, "Sorry the picchr the har is wrog. The culir. I liike the lips bot teh Paintng is sucs". When someone refers to his random capitalization Garble might say something like, "oPS i HITTED THE CAPDLOCK". Garble drives Grammarian and Nitpick absolutely nuts, but he disdains all efforts at correction, and if complaints persist he will indignantly sign exit saying, "yuor forum si stupef. bYE!"

I'm highly proficient at roleplaying a woman!

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The Power of role-play
01-22-2013 11:33 am Phoebus's
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The effect of engaging with
someone in the form of a role is
that the other person, assuming
they recognise the role, feels
compelled to play the reciprocal
role. Managing to play the
reciprocal role makes you a
socially competent person. People
who have some degree of aversion
to formalised interaction, the
autistic half of the population you
might say, feel driven to respond in
a state of anxiety and intimidation,
and are relieved when they manage
not to screw it up. They are afraid
that the highly proficient role-
player will judge them the way they
always tend to get judged. The
other half of the population, to
varying degrees, will be impressed
by the social competence of the
role-player and will be thrilled for
the chance to show that they too
are a highly cultivated social
animal. Such people will
themselves tend to initiate role-
plays. But whether it's because you
find it intimidating or because you
find it impressive, role-playing
compels you to play along. The
people who engage like this the
most, always entirely in the form
of a role-play, go on to make
themselves the directors of the
entire production, arranging
relationships between people and
expecting good performances. They
use their social power to influence
the people that they can so easily
get to respond to them. These
people are getting identified by
autists as 'extreme
neurotypicals'/'super
neurotypicals', but this behaviour
is already recognised as the
behaviour of narcissists. The simple
reason these people engage like
this is because of how oblivious
they are to the minds of the people
they're dealing with. Unable to
'connect' with other people, they
role-play in relation to them. An
autistic person gets really nervous
when confronted with this kind of
behaviour because of all the times
they've failed at this social style
and been humiliated and rejected
as a result. If they had never had
to suffer so much in this way, they
would probably just find this
behaviour rather hopeless, sweet
and funny.

I feel like I'm stuck in a fever dream every time I open this thread.

I am role playing being Boo.

Well folks, I tried!

what is the most fundamental purpose of interaction?

what is the purpose of conversation?
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postx222438-0-0.html


My friend and I are both auties. Yesterday I said to him "The weather is nasty, I almost slipped on the ice walking to my car." He said, "I don't know where the ice would have come from, the temperature is above freezing."

The response I was expecting was something along the lines of "Oh, I better be careful." The one I got ended in a referral to the weather network to determine if what I experienced was possible. Now, I've been around long enough to know that what you expect is not usually what you get, but this exchange got me to thinking.

Is conversation an exchange of facts? Or are there other elements . . . perhaps more along the lines of social preening?

What do you think is the purpose of conversation?

b9:
i always feel the need to internally ascertain the truth of what people say to me.
so many people just talk lies or rubbish, and i always need to situate what they say inside my mental rehearsal of what they are saying to test if it is true.

cyclopssummer:
Ann, I think conversation is multi-purpose; depending on the situation, it can have both a function of information exchange or one of social preening. At its heart, however, I think conversation is always exchange of information, even if the information exchanged is more trivial, as in small talk. But all conversation involves an element of relating information, otherwise people could suffice with meaningless sounds like grunting, growling, or squealing to serve the social purposes. But you won't see that very often; people tend to use words.

janissy:
It's called Black Ice because it appears black on black paved roads, causing many traffic accidents. I am guessing this does not happen where you live.

Because black ice is invisible, people often find out about it by falling (if walking) or sliding (if driving). In areas where this is common (such as where I live) it is considered a conversational courtesy to warn others that black ice is currently on the ground/road/sidewalk. The OP did just exactly that, fulfilling the norms of conversational courtesy. The usual reply is an acknowledgemnt of the warning, perhaps a thanks. She expected that reply but what she got instead was evidence that the other person doesn't entirely understand the black ice phenomenon and thinks there won't be ice if the ambient air is above freezing tempurature.

As CyclopsSummers noted, conversation can have multiple purposes. In this case, ironically, there really was an attempted exchange of information (the information being a warning to use caution you might not otherwise use). The information wasn't recieved because the other person doesn't know enough about ice. Ironic.

moisha:
nt's talk a lot of rubbish/ gibberish in aspergian opinion; aspergians talk a lot of rubbbish/ gibberish in nt opinion. does comprehensibility constitute a prerequisite for being human and being treated with dignity kindness compassion etc?
who gave anyone - aspergian or nt - the yardstick to measure the worth of his/ her fellow man/ woman? why alienate or devalue someone, because one doesn't understand what he is on about or he/ she is not eloquent or well-read or technologically advanced?

this website here was intended to support the misunderstood marginalized. so let it function according to its set purpose.

regards

My brain hurts and I'd like some LSD now........that is my response to this thread thus far.

Breaking News: "The Face of Boo lost the *WP Troll Champion* title to moisha after keeping it two years in a row."

Congrats, moisha.

Does this question count as conversing?