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  1. Chris Russell

    I am considered a Grammar Nazi, is this a common Aspie trait?

    No, I'm afraid my sense of humour deserts me when I am compared to a Nazi. And you misunderstand my post, I was merely objecting to the existence of that phrase. It's used indiscriminately and can be very hurtful. Perhaps if we want to 'make more friend's online' we should consider...
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    I am considered a Grammar Nazi, is this a common Aspie trait?

    Every time I look at this site, I notice this thread again, and I feel compelled to state just how angry the phrase "Grammar Nazi" makes me. I hold no ill feeling towards you for using it in your post, Rich Allen, my anger is reserved for ill-thinking moron who thought that it was appropriate...
  3. Chris Russell

    Anybody ever get extreme anger?

    Trouble always follows when we make assumptions about people when we are stressed for some reason. This is true for autistic people and neurotypical people. Anyone can get unreasonably angry. Autistic people (especially those with high functioning autism or Asperger's that is most widely...
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    I am considered a Grammar Nazi, is this a common Aspie trait?

    I'm an extreme systemiser - I can't help that errors, grammatical or otherwise stand out as if they were surrounded by flashing lights. It can be distracting or even distressing. I find it very difficult to concentrate on a presentation if there is a typo on the slide the presenter is talking...
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    How did people react when you told them you had Aspergers

    I was so relieved to finally know what was responsible for all the difficulties I had experienced throughout my life that, when I was diagnosed, I just told anyone and everyone. Some people didn't care, some were mildly interested, some said 'well obviously!' and some clearly thought I was...
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    The Art of the Compliment and the Social Rules Governing them

    Yeah! I got intimately familiar with that pleasantly surprised/utterly horrified combo expression that people somehow manage to pull off when you've got it badly wrong.... you know the one?
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    The Art of the Compliment and the Social Rules Governing them

    What an interesting thread! I find complimenting others has been one of the easier social skills to grasp, although I am sure that the quality of my compliments to others is often hit or miss - sometimes too minor a point, (no, it's a really nice shade of pink!) sometimes too intense (You're...
  8. Chris Russell

    Are you easily influenced by peer pressure?

    I have just demonstrated how terrible I am at exactly what I had meant to write about... I meant to include something in my last post about awarding karma to posts. I was horrified to realise that I almost never do this. My motivation to reciprocate in conversation is woeful, and I have to...
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    Are you easily influenced by peer pressure?

    Very interesting question, and reading the other answers in the thread, it seems the majority of us do not feel the pressure of peer groups. I have worked in UK secondary schools (High schools) for nearly ten years, and see the incredible effects of peer pressure (especially through social...
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    Comment by 'Chris Russell' in 'Abused Amoebas and Career Correlations (First published Nov 2017)'

    I understand your sentiment entirely, Ambi - I will never be convincing in the usual office chat or gossip, and would die of boredom long before I got proficient, anyway. What I have learned through Aspie TA has made a massive difference - without it, I would not have had the language to explain...
  11. Chris Russell

    A Question Regarding Complying With Therapy

    Well said. They don't have the answers and the only things that therapists should be trying to treat are the co-morbidities associated with ASCs, not the ASC itself. I didn't know any better before my diagnosis, and did what many of us do, which is try to fit in... I ended up with a raft of...
  12. Chris Russell

    Being Extremely Knowledgeable

    It is not unusual for neurotypical people to feel uncomfortable around someone who is clearly more knowledgeable than they are. As other posters have remarked, insecurities abound in the NT mind, they're just different from the ones that abound in ours, and they are there for different reasons...
  13. Chris Russell

    what things that you do are unique to you?

    There does seem to be an affinity for gaming, especially with male Aspies, but not exclusively. I am Aspie and have never, like you, had the patience to bother with something which seems to have no real purpose. However, when I have spoken to Aspie friends and students who do possess this...
  14. Chris Russell

    what things that you do are unique to you?

    Jealousy and envy are traits I associate with neurotypical people, more than Aspies... and similarly, learned behaviours like racism and sexism. I don't mean to infer that Aspies are incapable of such feelings, nor that all NTs are likely to be jealous or envious, but the nature of our...
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    The best of times... (First published 01 Jan 2018)

    It's that time of year again, and I had hoped to have something heartwarming, insightful and completely out of character for a logic loving, systematic, no-nonsense Aspie, to share with you all. My Christmas tree is still up, so I've thrown in some Dickens, and have sprinkled it with a...
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