LOL - I only got a 26. Where's the code to paste on your LJ???????
Seriously, though. I think my man would score like a 50 on that and I don't believe he has Asperger's.
I think a lot of times geeks and freaks like us want to find a reason to explain why we're not as good socially as the "popular" people and sometimes will self-diagnose something like AS. I think other times people do it to attention whore - but you don't seem like THAT type (yay that type!) - LOL.
I dunno - I'd say go get a non-online evaluation done if you think it might be true. That's the only way you'll know for sure because humans are really bad at objectification of themselves.
Remember, it's also possible to have a 225 IQ on the internets. And 80% of internet users have them!
ass-burgers
anonymous
September 13 2006, 03:56:06 UTC
(followed some links and ended up here, Scott)
I went to high school, and was on the academic team with, a kid who had aspergers. (Of course we didnt know this untill several years later) After he was diagnosed, one of my friends who knew him beter than I (Garrett) read a description of aspergers and decided for himself that he too had the disorder. My self-diagnosed friend is soon to graduate with two undergrads. (one in physics and one in math sciences) And although he is a brillant young man when it comes to the physical sciences he often makes broad, falicied and general ignorant comments about the arts (Philosophy and psychology included. He self diagnosis of aspergers was really just a cop-out for generaly poor social skills. (something none-too-rare in our group given how big of nerds we are) So now when he makes overly-general statements about the arts I comment on his "ass-burgers Syndrome."
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Where's the code to paste on your LJ???????
Seriously, though. I think my man would score like a 50 on that and I don't believe he has Asperger's.
I think a lot of times geeks and freaks like us want to find a reason to explain why we're not as good socially as the "popular" people and sometimes will self-diagnose something like AS. I think other times people do it to attention whore - but you don't seem like THAT type (yay that type!) - LOL.
I dunno - I'd say go get a non-online evaluation done if you think it might be true. That's the only way you'll know for sure because humans are really bad at objectification of themselves.
Remember, it's also possible to have a 225 IQ on the internets. And 80% of internet users have them!
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(followed some links and ended up here, Scott)
I went to high school, and was on the academic team with, a kid who had aspergers. (Of course we didnt know this untill several years later) After he was diagnosed, one of my friends who knew him beter than I (Garrett) read a description of aspergers and decided for himself that he too had the disorder. My self-diagnosed friend is soon to graduate with two undergrads. (one in physics and one in math sciences) And although he is a brillant young man when it comes to the physical sciences he often makes broad, falicied and general ignorant comments about the arts (Philosophy and psychology included. He self diagnosis of aspergers was really just a cop-out for generaly poor social skills. (something none-too-rare in our group given how big of nerds we are) So now when he makes overly-general statements about the arts I comment on his "ass-burgers Syndrome."
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