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    When and how did you hear about Aspergers syndrome?

    This year. I'd known what it was for a long time, and tended to [like/identify with] geeks, but never applied it to myself because I don't fit the profile for interest in maths, space and engineering, poor vocal prosody (although an Aspie friend of mine says I have distinctive vocal prosody. Am...
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    Collecting Symptoms

    Gender: F Diagnosis: not yet Symptoms exclusive to Aspergers Syndrome: Rigid logical thinking Difficulty with intuition and observation (very definitely an auditory learner; finding it difficult to draw inferences from visual cues) Weakness in practical imagination (can imagine things without...
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    People with suicidal tendencies

    I'm the same, but I've always regarded this as luck rather than logic. I think some people have a 'switch' thrown in their brain where they become vulnerable to suicidal ideas. It's often, but not always, part of mental illness. A depressive might think 'I am unworthy to live' or 'life is...
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    Hanging out with more than one person at a time

    Not as much as many Aspies, but I do typically prefer small groups. What's visible with me is that I don't do well with 'loose' groups at all. Anything where you're meant to enter and leave conversations and there's background conversation really gets to me. Since this is the sort of thing...
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    "What do you do for a living?"

    This response really irritates me. I have spent 45 years on this planet with nothing to show for it in those terms. It's not 'incredibly benign' if it sets some people outside what's considered to be normal human experience before they've even started trying to play the social game. As for what...
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