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    Unexpected Effect of Asperger's Diagnosis

    maybe a little bit. But I agree with OkRad, more or less-- it's a matter of physical brain architecture to a large extent. You might as well ask why most of us can't learn to dance easily. I struggled with social cues for decades, with typical-for-aspie results-- I feel a lot less lacking now...
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    Unexpected Effect of Asperger's Diagnosis

    For me, the diagnosis was such a relief! I stopped feeling like my social missteps were any kind of moral failing. And it let me come up with a different way to process social encounters, instead of believing they should happen organically and "naturally" as the NT world assumes they will. A...
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    Modern Art

    As a lifelong art history scholar, artist, and friend to artists, I can tell you; It's mostly B.S. The artists themselves, will admit it if you get them at an unguarded moment, and if they are not so incredibly defensive as to be unable to look at their own work in any objective way. Really...
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    I have an idea for science fiction

    What would you do with it, plot-wise?
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    Shawn, 57 from Sunny California :)

    I agree, Peace-- I've lived by that dicta for many, many years! :)
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    Shawn, 57 from Sunny California :)

    (although California has apparently decided to have Winter this summer) I'm self-diagnosed due to my sister's prodding. "Shawn," she said, "This explains EVERYTHING!" Frankly I was worried about-- what if it didn't? but it turns out she's probably right. Not only do I have a lot of asperger...
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