boringclod
Member
Hello,
I'm a 64yo male clod.
I'm not officially diagnosed, but I self-check almost all the boxes in the list.
Never wept over any one close to me dying. Even attended deaths of friends and been rather unaffected.
Never understood how people could so easily 'know what to do and say' in this or that situation.
It's sooo hard rememebring the 'right thing' to do.
Tired of people telling me I'm the smartest person they know when I forget stuff all the time, have to study hard to 'get it'.
I'm also tired of seeing myself make outbursts that shock and surprise people (myself included!)
I joke that I have 'Serial Obsessive Disorder' - one interest leads to another to another to another . . .
'Celebrating' birthdays, anniversaries, etc. is not on my radar (except when other point them out - oops!)
I am a great teacher because I naturally structure information so one part builds on another and the outcome is clearly understood.
I love theology and philosophy though I quibble with most of it all.
I am an artist, an engineer, designer, and struggling entrepreneur b/c I am soooo distractible.
I fianlly came up with an analogy of what it's like to live in my brain: It's like being inside a big shop-vac with the hose flipping here and there . . . my brainjust sucks stuff and then I say "Wow! look at that! How cool! I wonder . . ."
I call myself 'A Collectivist, a collector of inconsequential trivia'
I'm happy being y myself, but like the kudos on the end results I create.
I like running groups but being milling around in a crowd is agony.
Genetics? Check!
My dad and oldest brother were certainly aspie. We alled my dad 'lecturous' - if you bumped the wrong button, out came a looooooong lecture. He was a research chemist with a near-photographic memory. I grew up reading Science, Nature, Scientific American, etc.
I blow through prob. 100 books/year, mostly non-fiction.
End of monologue.
I'm a 64yo male clod.
I'm not officially diagnosed, but I self-check almost all the boxes in the list.
Never wept over any one close to me dying. Even attended deaths of friends and been rather unaffected.
Never understood how people could so easily 'know what to do and say' in this or that situation.
It's sooo hard rememebring the 'right thing' to do.
Tired of people telling me I'm the smartest person they know when I forget stuff all the time, have to study hard to 'get it'.
I'm also tired of seeing myself make outbursts that shock and surprise people (myself included!)
I joke that I have 'Serial Obsessive Disorder' - one interest leads to another to another to another . . .
'Celebrating' birthdays, anniversaries, etc. is not on my radar (except when other point them out - oops!)
I am a great teacher because I naturally structure information so one part builds on another and the outcome is clearly understood.
I love theology and philosophy though I quibble with most of it all.
I am an artist, an engineer, designer, and struggling entrepreneur b/c I am soooo distractible.
I fianlly came up with an analogy of what it's like to live in my brain: It's like being inside a big shop-vac with the hose flipping here and there . . . my brainjust sucks stuff and then I say "Wow! look at that! How cool! I wonder . . ."
I call myself 'A Collectivist, a collector of inconsequential trivia'
I'm happy being y myself, but like the kudos on the end results I create.
I like running groups but being milling around in a crowd is agony.
Genetics? Check!
My dad and oldest brother were certainly aspie. We alled my dad 'lecturous' - if you bumped the wrong button, out came a looooooong lecture. He was a research chemist with a near-photographic memory. I grew up reading Science, Nature, Scientific American, etc.
I blow through prob. 100 books/year, mostly non-fiction.
End of monologue.
