I present to you a casino poker room regular. An intelligent, profitable card player... and quite childish for a man of around 50 years of age. Sincere and candid to an autistic level.
Engaging but odd. Considerate but sometimes a bit offensive to snowflake types, since he's not guarding his words like an NT. Somewhat monotone voice, even when excited. Friendly and generally well-liked or at least tolerated by others.
Regularly walks into the smoking room (which always smells of cigarettes and weed as one would expect), and comments on how overpowering the smell is to him. He does this time after time, as if the routine mild odor is somehow a big surprise and a big deal. Knows and admits he's "not normal".
He radiates mega autism- not just to me, but to an experienced neurologist who's also sat with him at the same card table for dozens of hours. It takes one to know one- and I am one. I thought I knew, and I thought the neurologist knew.
Yet somehow his aspie score came out just 33. Thirty-three! He showed me, and wouldn't have intentionally lied through the entire questionnaire. What would be the point? He seemed genuinely open to the possibility of being an undiagnosed aspie.
I highly doubt the aspie score quiz could be flawed to such an extreme degree.
My best theory so far: Wondering if there's some type of brain abnormality that manifests nearly identical to autism, but is actually something else entirely. Does anyone have better theories, or are some things just destined to remain mysteries?
Aspie score quiz:
The Aspie Quiz | Embrace Autism
Engaging but odd. Considerate but sometimes a bit offensive to snowflake types, since he's not guarding his words like an NT. Somewhat monotone voice, even when excited. Friendly and generally well-liked or at least tolerated by others.
Regularly walks into the smoking room (which always smells of cigarettes and weed as one would expect), and comments on how overpowering the smell is to him. He does this time after time, as if the routine mild odor is somehow a big surprise and a big deal. Knows and admits he's "not normal".
He radiates mega autism- not just to me, but to an experienced neurologist who's also sat with him at the same card table for dozens of hours. It takes one to know one- and I am one. I thought I knew, and I thought the neurologist knew.
Yet somehow his aspie score came out just 33. Thirty-three! He showed me, and wouldn't have intentionally lied through the entire questionnaire. What would be the point? He seemed genuinely open to the possibility of being an undiagnosed aspie.
I highly doubt the aspie score quiz could be flawed to such an extreme degree.
My best theory so far: Wondering if there's some type of brain abnormality that manifests nearly identical to autism, but is actually something else entirely. Does anyone have better theories, or are some things just destined to remain mysteries?
Aspie score quiz:
The Aspie Quiz | Embrace Autism
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