"Off" is a good word for them. I don't know why, but I'm not surprised that the railfan world would be populated by a good number of Aspies. Evidently many are given to intense interests in oddball subjects ... How do you find it dealing with them? I think the hardest thing is to remember that they don't mean anything by their "off" behavior. There's no agenda, and they can't really (or shouldn't really) be read in conventional-human ways. They just have their own, slightly strange ways of going about things ...

Posted by: Michael Blowhard on March 31, 2006 10:45 AM

"* Did you know that 2006 is International Asperger's Year?"

No.

8-)

Posted by: Doug Sundseth on March 31, 2006 11:49 PM

Astryngia defined. I like! Thanks for your understanding.

As for 'off' - it's a lot easier when they have insight into their 'difference'. Either way, just think 'Mr Spock' and you'll be half way to empathising with their 'take' on the world. A most honourable 'species'! Frustrating beyond words!!!

The poem, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Roger McGough offers a little insight into what their world must be like.
http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/poetry/poems/martian.html

Posted by: Astryngia on April 11, 2006 04:34 PM






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