@TheDude
I must say I do not understand your question here? Asperger isn't same as Autism, Autism is more severe than Asperger. Asperger is close to high-functioning autism, but it is way more mild. I do not know how Asperger is categorized in United states, but in here linguistics problems are not part of criteria. Yes, I do have perfect grammar, or actually I do not think that I have, I think it is quite poor, but that is not what I wanted to talk about, all I really want to say is that my interests in linguistics has helped me. But I do know, many Aspie that can wrote perfect grammar.
I can't read peoples facial expressions, I never have, and probably never will. And what comes to social insight, I am not even sure what that means, but I guess it has to do with way I talk in internet. Have you ever wondered that it's easier in internet to hold a conversation? In a face-to-face conversation I probably would have all kinds of problems holding a conversation, I would try too hard trying to focus on your facial expressions trying to see that I didn't miss some unverbal cue that you neurotypical people usually send out to the world while trying to listen what you have to say.
And what comes to studying. I cannot study everything, it has to be absolutely in my area of interests, if I lose my interest I cannot study or I cannot even work. I've had to stop jobs because I just simple weren't interested in it anymore. It is very crucial to me that I am interested in what I do.
Needless to say, not all aspie's or even autistic people are alike, we all have our own personalities, our own mistakes, problems etc. We are each unique in our own making.
I hope this gives you some kind of satisfaction
@TheDude
[DOUBLEPOST=1422058501][/DOUBLEPOST]And it is not like I've come from far away to get in this point where I am now. Beside all the problems I think everyone is able to do anything, if you put time and patience in your doings. I do need routines in my life to able to function properly, without them I am lost and I get easily frusfated and anxious. And I got my diagnose in my early 20s, so I was raised like a "normal", so you could say that might have also helped me little.
What makes me Aspie? Abnormalities in my brain, makes me Aspie, like everyone else who's Aspie.
And I just noticed you mentioned me studying brain, yes I am absolutely fascinated by brain. Neurology, neurolinguistics and neuropsychology has been my field of interest years. It's amazing how we all have cortex, hypothalamus, fornix, septal nucleu, and yet there are no brains that are alike. It is also amazing how your fantasies can overtake you and become evil, and corrupt our minds. And what about neurological reality? Neurochemical impulses firing up, when we're dreaming, fantasizing, hallucinating etc. It's amazing how those things are indistinguishable from the one's banging around inside our skulls when we actually experience those events.
And while I'm still up, I might aswell continue. Being aspie doesn't automatically mean that there are things that I cannot do. I just need to find my own way to do things, it can take time to find that way and there might be not one, but it doesn't stop me trying.
And for real, being aspie doesn't lack my intelligence. I have very high IQ. Having a low IQ is not criteria for having asperger. So I am very self-observant. I know myself. I know my lacks and abilities.
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I am quite interested in neurophysiology too! I mean, it's literally amazing to study your brains... with your own brains... That's THE science that tells us everything about us. Have your read Making up the mind by Chris Frith?
Unfortunately I've not had chance to read that book. I am currently reading Oliver Sack's The mind's eye. The mind's eye is basically book about vision and visual imagination. The book tells us how "the complex workings of the brain and its astounding ability to adapt and overcome disability." In book Oliver Sacks writes about Prosopagnosia, people who can't recognize everyday objects, people who can write but not read, people that cannot see in three dimension.
