Hello everyone

[by_design]

Looking over all the symptoms of ASD, I find that I have quite a few. Particularly the problem with developing empathy. I know that I have ADHD, because of my childhood, and life up to the present. What rules out the possibility of me have ASD is the fact that I didn't have any of the symptoms in childhood, and it can't be acquired. Having said that, I still have to say that I share a lot of things in common in with those that have ASD. I would like to have some friends with ASD. The best description of myself is that I am an impractical academic, which means that I study and worship knowledge, as long as it is impractical, and doesn't give me any oopprtunities to earn any money.

 

[Heissonear]

Welcome to the forum. There are many people here to visit with and a lot of exchange of information. Enjoy the discussions.

 

[Sparticus]

Welcome to the forum! By reading posts here, you can acquire a certain amount of information as it pertains to you and your habits.
I also suggest for you to further study Aspergers via google. Good luck!

 

[Minuet]

Hi and welcome! Your definition of an "impractical academic" made me giggle.

 

[Jacki Cucinotta]

Hello! Welcome to Aspies Central. I think you are definitely going to enjoy it here. There are many insightful discussions posted all over the forum - feel free to check them out and post anything you would like to discuss. You can even start your own thread if you wish - we always value new insights from our fellow members. Another thing is that many of us have become friends on here. I wish you best of luck with everything.

 

[lostinspace]

Welcome!

Can you give us an example of impractical knowledge?

 

[Loomis]

Welcome!

Can you give us an example of impractical knowledge?

If I may be so bold as to entertain a guess to what the OP might consider impractical knowledge, perhaps becoming fluent in Classical Greek is one example. I often wish I could read the New Testament in its original Greek and I still have not given up on the possibility of someday achieving that goal. Reading the Jewish Torah in Hebrew also holds interest for me but it is a venture I can be quite certain never to achieve; the required effort would be monumental and would consume a prohibitably huge block of time.

Since my undergraduate days I have read the Great Philosophers. The knowledge gained is important to me but has little or no practical value, that is to say marketable or pecuniary value. It does however give me the sense of having a more general grasp of historical and cultural influences on human behavior. I value mathematical knowledge, an understanding of the physical, chemical and biological sciences as well as a need to understand psychological theories and the contributions of Great Art and Literature to human civilization. I look back with envy on the thinkers of the Renaissance who could know and study all of human knowledge extant at the time. Clearly with the explosion of information this became impossible sometime in the late 18 th century.

 

[by_design]

Yeah Loomis I think you have the right idea. I have studied Classical Chinese, Chinese philosophy and history, Classical Latin, some Western Philosophy. Other topics, also but a master of none. I have also studied molecular biology/ genetics, neuroanatomy and physiology. I have a really nice book of Classical Greek, but I haven't studied any of it yet. I have a very job that doesn't require any of it. Thank you everyone for the warm welcome.