Executive Function
hotmail.com> writes:
> On 28 Aug, 17:00, "Tom"
comcast.net> wrote:>>> Your comment got me thinking: Â What if she can't tell the difference
>>> between someone verbally threatening to kill her, and someone actually
>>> attempting to kill her?
>>
>>> Nobody has ever tried to kill me for real. Â But there have been times
>>> when someone has threatened to do so, in the mutual understanding that
>>> he'll never actually follow through with his threat, he's just sending
>>> a very strong message.
>>
>>> And remember when Quintal called me a "fascist", which got me upset and
>>> I told him to kill himself? Â She freaked out:
>>
>>
>>> She's an aspie. Â Maybe she just doesn't understand the neurotypical
>>> behavior of threatening to kill somebody, while never actually
>>> intending to do it.
>>
>> It's pretty typical for someone with Asperger's Syndrome to take what is
>> said at face value, since they often have trouble immediately grasping
>> the nuances of social interactions and predicting others'
>> behavior. Â Emotional language often does way beyond the facts, which can
>> be very confusing, even for those of us who are better able to intuit
>> it.
>
> Unless of course there is a visable weapon involved. Then every NT
> would say - yeah - thats a threat. This is just superiority motivated
> NT psychobabble.
Oh, for fuck's sake, here we go again.
If aspies were able to function just as well as neurotypicals in every given
situation, *they wouldn't be aspies.* There would not be such a thing as
"Asperger syndrome".
You play the aspie card every time you want to brag about your l33t a5pie
skillz, when you want to be Special and Unique.
But when it comes to the *downsides* of being an aspie, you stick your
fingers to your ears, shut your eyes real tight, and babble about
"superiority motivated NT psychobabble."
I have been threatened with a visible weapon as well. You're not special in
this matter.
A nutcase pulled a swiss army knife on me at a bus stop, demanding to know
what "we" were up to. She claimed she knew I was working for the FBI. (And
this happened in Finland...)
But I used my Secret Neurotypical Techniques (that we're taught in a
Himalayan monastary), and I was able to see the situation as it really was:
she was not even considering stabbing me. She just wanted to intimidate me.
I was never in any real danger.
And if you really are as good as any neurotypical in judging the motivations
and intentions of people, then why the fuck did you freak out when I told
Quintal to go kill himself?
HG
