> Executive Function hotmail.com> writes:

>> On 28 Aug, 17:00, "Tom" comcast.net> wrote:

>>> "HG" wrote in message

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>>>> Your comment got me thinking:  What if she can't tell the difference
>>>> between someone verbally threatening to kill her, and someone actually
>>>> attempting to kill her?

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>>>> Nobody has ever tried to kill me for real.  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.

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>>>> And remember when Quintal called me a "fascist", which got me upset and
>>>> I told him to kill himself?  She freaked out:

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>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.magick/msg/a4b39c4f964a377b

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>>>> She's an aspie.  Maybe she just doesn't understand the neurotypical
>>>> behavior of threatening to kill somebody, while never actually
>>>> intending to do it.

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>>> 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.  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.

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>> 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?
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