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    Similar disorder/syndromes

    Yes. My condition includes similarities to Asperger, at least enough for me to have a firm official diagnosis of Asperger, but it has a different core. My condition is not found in any classification book; I guess it is unknown. My name for it is "Brain in a Jar Syndrome". My main point here is...
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    What does it mean to be a friend?

    My problem here is that the only way I know of communicating is very direct. Therefore, my natural way to initiate to someone new I care about would be very friendly and intimate (by "intimate" I do NOT mean sexual). If this scares them away because they do not believe me to be genuine, this...
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    What does it mean to be a friend?

    There are two primary meanings of "friend". One is similar to "playmate", focusing on shared activities. The other is "true friend", meaning "one who cares for your well being". Just like the word "love", a word having two meanings can cause much misunderstanding.
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    Why do you think there are so many autistics who are atheist?

    I do not have the ability to "believe" something. If I feel that I have chosen a truth, I cannot feel it is true. Truth must come to me. If something shows itself to be true, I must believe it; I cannot choose. Just as you cannot choose to believe what 2+2 is (or can you?). Since there are many...
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    I can't feel love for people!

    I have a huge "love" part of my brain. Some people are extremely special and important to me, a "love at first sight". Just being with them would be the deepest happiness I can have, and being without them would be hell. I have been like this since early childhood, and it is totally non-sexual...
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    Aspie with opposite traits?

    Although I have an official DX of aspie, and my condition is as far from NT as anyone, I still feel that I do not fit in, even as aspie. A large part of the reason is that, although I know that this is a "spectrum" condition, some of my traits are not just non-aspie, but are actually the extreme...
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    What Do You Think Of The Autism Severity Scale?

    What bothers me about a severity scale for autism is: severity of what? My condition is severe; my life is completely ruined. However, the match with autism is off. While autism is the only thing on the DSM which even vaguely describes my condition, my match with autism does not describe the...
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    Did you understand the concept of ASD at first?

    I was introduced to the term "Asperger syndrome" as meaning anyone who has different instincts than typical people. This was certainly me. But then I realized that a condition cannot be defined by what it is not, only be what it is. And when the specifics of what Asperger IS started to come in...
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    science philosophy blog

    I am a very deep thinker in the deepest aspects of scientific philosophy subjects, such as the ultimate ontology of reality, hard problem of consciousness, and the like. I have started a blog about this (zylon1.blogspot.com), which you are invited to see and comment on. I also have a blog...
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    Is it likely for someone to be similar to a person with autism but not have autism at all?

    I am profoundly different from both autism and neurotypical. While I do have an official diagnosis of autism, it is by default because what I really am is not in any book, and I have to be classified somewhere. But my differences from autism seem to go right to the core. Just the result (social...
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    What is love???

    That is called "unconditional". My love is always unconditional.
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    What is love???

    I use the word "love" for the most wonderful, deeply satisfying thing there is. I have felt this love for certain type of people all my life; the special people I was born to love. When I was seven years old, to be with Sandra (also seven) was by far what I wanted most of all in life. It is...
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    Internal Dialogue?

    I have always had continuous monologue in my head, ever since I was 3 months old. However, unless the monologue represents a conversation with someone else, much of the monologue is wordless, consisting instead of pure concepts. The voice in my head just makes a space where the wordless concept...
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    anyone have face sensitivity?

    Well, really it is not that I find anime faces interesting, I find them pleasant to look at, like I really want to be with them. And it does not matter much what the expression is, it is the face itself, or more accurately, the person the face represents. Sailor Moon girls are pretty, especially...
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    People with Aspergers are not alike

    Those 10 symptoms do not describe me. My brother is not different from me by degree, but rather by kind, i.e. he is the extreme opposite of me in many core ways. Professional assessment does no good; they do not understand me. There is no doubt that I am not anywhere on the DSM or the ICD, but...
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