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Please don't leave! This site is for many people. Dxed or not or even curious people. The support here is so strong and your posts always make me think. You don't have to have a Dx to NOT be NT! Lots of Non-NTs out there who are hiding because they are not quite autism. You are part of us and we would miss you!
I'm INTJ and autistic at the same time.
Well, let's see. Maybe the better way to put it is what are the things, qualities, etc. you ascribe to ASD rather than to INTJ characteristics?what do you mean
Aspergers is a particular neurological wiring that is different from NTs. (NT gifted seem to have a hybrid form of neurological wiring.)Can you help me identify what's from the INTJ piece and what's from the ASD piece?
I am an INTJ and Aspie too. HFA they are technically calling it now.
Way down the list here before I found this post
but I'm adding my please don't leave us sentiment too.
I see you have decided to stay and I'm glad.
Your posts are always interesting and you fit right in like
family. We are learning from each other. All of us.
I am an INTJ and Aspie too. HFA they are technically calling it now.
Agree with Crossbreed on the differences between the
two DXs. I think the INTJ is a description relating to
one's personality. ASD has overlapping traits but so much more. There was a post listing many of the Aspie traits
here once. I have a page full in my journal that describe
me. The lack of social interactions and sensory overloads
are two main ones that seem to be very much Aspie.
There are others too.
I like the topic of the orchid. While I agree with @Streetwise on the image looking like the pea family,
I get the Cattelaya/Katleya.
Have one of mine as thanks for staying!
Actually a Phalaenopsis...View attachment 42270
I wouldn't use MB as conclusive evidence for anything.
It's a personnel sorting device that people seem to take
as something to "believe" in.
It's purely descriptive, based on self report.
Not evaluative, or objective.
I am a huge fan. (Nero Wolfe joke!)Have you ever read the Nero Wolfe books? He was an orchid fanatic, XD.
Personally speaking, I use MB merely as a casual point of reference for others and little else.
Otherwise it's just a benchmark of sorts that I actually give little thought of on a regular basis.
Well, I understand it's not scientifically definitive but it sure has helped me understand stuff about my friend. Now I know why he told me that my saying "I love you" feels like I'm trying to convince him of something he already knows. I need to understand comments like that instead of getting hurt by them. Now I see it differently but I don't think I would have had the imagination to see how else this phrase (I love you) could be interpreted if I hadn't been doing a lot of reading in an effort to understand. So now I'm happy he knows this without a doubt- before he didn't think there was anything lovable about himself.
I'm afraid I see such things in more of a relative light. After all, I also have had great difficulty with those three words relative to my relationships with NT females. Yet as you see, I'm an ISTJ.