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Recent content by Rudy Schmidt

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    Inconsistent symptoms

    What you just said there, about empathising being just imagining yourself in their situation - that's interesting because until very recently I didn't realize there WAS any other way to empathize. Example: someone is sad and a bit scared because they lost their job. You empathize by imagining...
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    How often do you use profanity IRL?

    I frequently speak in a stereotypical mobster voice, and when this happens my language is as crude as it is in the mob films. When I'm acting normally I don't swear hardly ever, except when I get angry, and then it's every other word. I don't know - I guess I do swear a lot. My dad swore a lot...
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    I feel like a fraud

    It's good that you're open to whatever happens. It can be a scary thought. :) One thing to keep in mind is that it's a scale. Have you seen that pie chart with people's diagram of scores, with the NT in blue on the left and the diverse in red on the right? They say most NTs are mostly in the...
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    Does my partner have Aspergers?

    It really sounds like he does. The question is how to approach the subject with him. As his partner, you probably know him better than anyone. Also, how might he react? For me, learning what I am at 26 was the single biggest shock of my entire life, like my whole personality I've been...
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    Inconsistent symptoms

    I can't give anything near a professional opinion, but some of those things definitely sounded asperger-Esque to me. The thing about only holding contact with brown eyes in particular. I like that - it's an interesting and unique quirk - but I don't think NTs would consider it. I've learned -...
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    Do your parents call places for you?

    My wife makes the vast majority of my phone calls for me (excluding work-related). Most of the time the phone calls are unofficial, like me wanting to ask a family member something, or wanting to ask a shop if they carry a certain item, so her calling doesn't matter to them. She did call to...
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    A special interest in the apocalypse

    An interest in the apocalypse, end of the world, and total anarchy sometimes swells up in me, too. Has since I was about 16 and saw a TV show about the end of the world. I especially love songs about the end of the world (or other terrible events), ESPECIALLY if they're sang in a really upbeat...
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    What Is Your Favorite Number?

    Eleven! Love 11. Multiplies so neatly, looks so nice on paper, and reminds me of the moon (someone once told me "2" was symbolic of the moon, and that so was 11, because 11 was two 1's, and two 1's were 2).
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    Your favorite genre of book

    My absolute favourite books to read are autobiographies, especially of soldiers who were in wars, and people who were in organised crime families. Reading about really dangerous lives that really happened, but being untouchable and safe because I'm just reading a book, is really interesting to...
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    I feel like a fraud

    I sometimes feel similarly. Last year, my wife suggested that I may be on the scale. I agreed it was a possibility and took the tests and did some research. I hadn't taken it seriously until the tests rubbed my nose in it (I also use a lot of figurative language). I cried and had a lot of...
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    Going back to our roots, Aspie/Autie Poll time

    I chose "biological - genetics" and "none of these": - "Biological - genetics" because I believe that most likely is the case. - "None of these" as a way of saying I don't really know. Sometimes I think it's everyone around me who's different and I'm the one acting normal. :/
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    Something I've noticed about many people

    I repeat myself if it's something I find interesting - sometimes multiple times in the same conversation. But I get frustrated when other people repeat things to me. I know that's a double standard, but I still feel that way. :/ I think a lot of what people talk about is boring, so I try not to...
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    Freaking People Out With Your Obsessions.

    I like to talk about my obsessions, but have burned a few times (usually by the same people), so I'm wary. It depends on the people. My spider obsession got me some flak, which irritated me, because it was only the second time that day I'd even mentioned them, and yet other people can talk about...
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    Watching tv shows repeatedly

    When something - be it a film, a book, a game, whatever - is enjoyable no matter how many times I repeat them, I give them my own made up award I call an "Infinity Ribbon". Only four books (including Catcher in the Rye, from which my username comes), about five or six films (including Jurassic...
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    To what fictional character (s) can you relate?

    I don't know - I act very childish a lot, and shun other people because they look down on me for that. If that sounds like someone you know, answers on a postcard. :p I always felt a small connection to Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, due to his immaturity (by 'normal' standards), but...
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