Recognition & Emotion

[dr_mabeuse]

That's why I've always been slightly disappointed in Star Trek's logic-driven adroids and Vulcans. Where are all the pointy-eared Aspies?

Yeah. They're always confusing logic with intelligence. The two have nothing in common. It's like confusing the ability to spell with the ability to write.

 

[Gi_Venus]

I didn't know that, but I've heard that one of the features of autism is this kind of "emotional blindness" in communication. Autistics simply don't pick up on or respond to emotional cues in other's speech or action. It's like they have a lack of empathy--no emotional imagination.

I have a relative who's autistic, and that describes him perfectly. He just doesn't deal in the emotional side of things. Information only.

It is true, my little one has Aspergers, he cannot pick up on visual clues such as facial expression, It is not that they lack empathy it is their focus is elsewhere, quite likely I have it judging from all the social blunders I made growing up, I have to force myself to study faces to catch the cues...even then I miss things...my ex tells me I did:rollingeyes: From my own experience I would call it a distraction or attention deficit, of social cues. There is a type of therapy for Higher functioning Autistic people called Remedial Development Intervention. It encourages them to interact in the world more by giving a sense of competency. I believe it works by teaching the brain to work around the deficits or faulty neural functioning. Through it social skills can be taught.

 

[neonlyte]

There are some anecdotes which I can tell, but have never been able to write down. And the reason is that there was no coherence to these happenings, they had no plot, no theme, they were real events but utterly surreal. I figure I need to record myself telling them, and then write down what i said-- cool little stories.

One is about how a maid in a hotel I was staying at went crazy and attacked the guests in the middle of the night...

Another is about how a deer jumped in front of our car, and, as we were discussing killing it-- it had broken a leg-- another guy pulled up and insisted that we try to save it instead, leading to a goose-chase that used up a day of travel-time, three different sheriff's stations... And no haunch of venison for hungry me. And two grand body damage to the car, of course.

Very difficult to relate anecdotes that don't involve you, the two examples you quote demonstrate that perfectly Even though you were staying at the hotel, it is easy to tell you were not attacked, the second left you hungry.

Fact: my dysfunctional brain is a matter of record on this forum. For an unknown reason it choses in various ways to interfere with movement. I sometimes forget how to walk... I mean literally... I cannot remember what I have to do to move one foot in front of another. Oddly, this usually happens in a crowded place but it is not like claustrophobia where you can be frozen with 'fear'. This is very different, very frightening since I know I can walk but can't remember how to do it. The 'effect' lasts a couple of minutes, fortunately the times when it has happened my wife has been with me... my paranoia is the fear of this happening when alone.

 

[Huckleman2000]

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Fact: my dysfunctional brain is a matter of record on this forum. For an unknown reason it choses in various ways to interfere with movement. I sometimes forget how to walk... I mean literally... I cannot remember what I have to do to move one foot in front of another. Oddly, this usually happens in a crowded place but it is not like claustrophobia where you can be frozen with 'fear'. This is very different, very frightening since I know I can walk but can't remember how to do it. The 'effect' lasts a couple of minutes, fortunately the times when it has happened my wife has been with me... my paranoia is the fear of this happening when alone.

How strange! What do you do to overcome it? Does another person have to help you up or get you going a few steps?
Sorry if these are rude questions - I don't have Asperger's, I'm just curious.