Giraffe
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Antennas is just a picture.Blinkyrocket said:Well, what do you mean by antennas?
Some people do not filter as good as others. They get tired/stressed faster than other people. = too many antennas
To learn to decipher body language and facial expression comes for most people as natural as learning their mother tongue, for Asperger's however facial expression is like a foreign language. == Asperger's lack antennas.
"Treatment" for Asperger's syndrome (as far as I know) strives to improve the ability to interact with other people.
I do not have Asperger's syndrome, but a lot of the above is true for me too. Only that the interest in a particular subject subsides after a while when other subjects catch my interest.Blinkyrocket said:And "Individuals with Asperger syndrome tend to develop an intense interest in a particular subject." This I have, "Often they are able to remember enormous amounts of detail on their subject of interest. They may want to share this large amount of information with others and may resist diversion to other topics."
A child with Asperger's who's special interest is locomotives, would not get distracted easily from it's particular subject (= not switch to other subjects) and with the time it would know nearly everything there is to know about locomotives.
Panicking when fireworks go off, panicking in a huge crowd etc. is not "normal", but not that unusual either. Some parents of Asperger's children report that the kid is horrified each time they change the bedclothes and that it is impossible to move the kid go to bed. Search for a good forum to find out more. (Warning: Many English speaking ones I found are full of nasty people. To be nasty is nothing to do with autism.)Blinkyrocket said:And this, "They may also have difficulty tolerating sensory stimuli such as noise or lights." Does panicking when the fireworks go off count for noise? My sister also closes her ears when they shoot the fireworks on the fourth of july and shes got similiar anxiety problems to me and is also very skinny just like me.
This is often reported by Asperger's, but it's not only Asperger's who hate it.Blinkyrocket said:I hate making eye contact,
I hate it when people talk to me, but do not look at me. This happens often!
Sounds like you are introvert, which is neither good nor bad by itself.Blinkyrocket said:"Some of them may even display selective mutism, speaking not at all to most people and excessively to specific people. Some may choose only to talk to people they like." I used to not talk to anyone I didn't feel comfortable around, when I was in preschool, the teachers thought I couldn't speak at all for who knows how long until they heard me talk to my dad when he came to pick me up. I still don't like talking to many people but I force myself to do it.