Shyness and autism

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LePetitPrince
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30 May 2007, 3:57 pm

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In a March 6, 2004 letter by Gilmartin [1], he felt "as many as 40 percent of the cases of severely love-shy men would qualify for a diagnosis of 'Asperger's Syndrome'". We are also told that "1.5 percent of men are love-shy"

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love-shyness

Interesting , don't you think ?

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30 May 2007, 4:14 pm

whats love shy

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30 May 2007, 4:50 pm

Kilroy wrote:

whats love shy

... see the Wikipedia link in the first post? Click that.

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30 May 2007, 7:32 pm

Also from the Wikipedia article:

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Criticism of Gilmartin's writings

Gilmartin makes references to subject areas regarded by scientific criteria as pseudoscience such as astrology, reincarnation, past life regression and Kirlian aura (page 15) to support his research, which reviewer Elizabeth Rice Allgeier, Ph.D. stated "waters down the potential impact of his writings."

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31 May 2007, 5:07 am

Maybe some people might want to rethink their self-dx.

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31 May 2007, 5:27 am

Mitch8817 wrote:

Maybe some people might want to rethink their self-dx.

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Love-shyness is not recognized as a mental disorder by the World Health Organization or American Psychiatric Association.

You and I could write our own classification system for a subset of aspies we know here who have various common traits and call it a new name to but that would not make it officially accepted science.

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31 May 2007, 5:36 pm

I believe love-shyness qualifies more as Social Anxiety Disorder

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31 May 2007, 5:41 pm

I used to be shy but I conquered it and now I can talk to anyone I meet while looking them in the eyes.

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02 Jun 2007, 5:23 pm

Interestingly enough, I think this effectively describes me.

Now I'm worried.

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02 Jun 2007, 5:36 pm

the lovely thing about adjectives is that they all roughly mean the same thing and it's up to the specific situation to lend context in picking the appropriate word.

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