Aspies and mood rings?

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All of a sudden, this thought clicked into my brain about the connection between Aspies and mood rings. Some aspies have trouble expressing their own emotions so would it be possible for the mood ring to misinterpret them? I've always wondered something like that.

I have a hard time believing that your mood can be measured by your body temperature, NT or not.

Mood rings don't work on me at all. They never change colour. For body temperature, my hands and feet are always cold and my head is always hot. If anybody knows a cure for this, please tell me. If it's exercise, nevermind.

Aren't aspies supposed to be overly rational? Mood rings are up there with astrology and organized religion.

Organized religion and astrology can be rationalized... if you're smart enough to rationalize them, which most aspies unfortunately aren't. Aspie definitely does not = intelligent.
Anyway, I'd like to believe in a higher power but I don't follow an organized religion because of all those rules... rules tend to weigh you down. As for astrology, my experience absolutely *always* proves my horoscopes right, so I'm inclined to believe that as well.
But since you ask, my mood ring is usually a deep blue or mild blue-green.

If you think mood rings work, you've probably got more problems than just Aspergers.

I find that moodrings are always whatever colour they they happen to be when they touch something hot. I have a pretty high body temperature.

Yupa.

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. You're calling people unintelligent and then claiming that the locations of celestial bodies influence your behavior?

"Organized religion and astrology can be rationalized."

Do you even know what rational means?

Your post was the least intelligent thing I have ever seen on any of these forums

Jameson, I use the word idiot all the time, even to refer to myself sometimes when I do something foolish. I think of it as meaning someone who is ignorant or unwise. (In ancient Greece, it meant someone who didn't care about political matters.) That's probably what Yupa was referring to, and, I agree, some Aspies do appear to be rather obstinate.

Yupa,

mood rings do not in any way, direct or otherwise, involve any science. They are based on ignorance of science.

They respond to temperature. That is true. Yes your body temperature may change when you get angry, nervous, excited etc. But your body also changes temperatures for many other reasons other than mood - ie activity level, amount of clothing etc. Beyond that body temperatures vary from person to person - so when these mood rings are being manufactured in mass quantity they are clearly going to respond the same to the same temperature. Therefore a person who has a higher average body temp will get a different color for a similar emotion when compared to another person. BEYOND THAT the mood ring also responds to the temperature of the environment - not just the person. So if you're in a hot/cold room it will respond differently.

Yupa, did you want me to keep going? I'm sure a lot of other intelligent aspies here can offer many more examples of why mood rings are such an stupid concept. On the idiot scale I'd place mood rings slightly above astrology (did you want to explain to us how that works?) and slightly below superstition.

Anymore 'science' you'd like to explain? Could we possibly go over unicorns and bridge trolls next?