User: bar_ohki Date: 2010-05-01 00:13 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: EmikoShiny

I do admit that when comparing myself to someone who's not autistic there's are certain amount of 'me' and 'them' going on that's kind of unpleasant that I never get when I'm comparing myself to someone of with the same disorder.

User: kiokushitaka Date: 2010-05-01 00:20 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: ASSCRD DesShaun bunny hood

It's probably also easier to talk to people who can relate.

User: bar_ohki Date: 2010-05-01 00:22 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: SasakuraMixing

For me its not just a matter of relating its also a matter of not having that person care about my social mistakes or having that person mean exactly what they say. Queenie and I don't beat around the bush with each other and we aren't offended by the other's bluntness. We don't care if the other isn't looking at us when we're speaking. We don't care we're sounding monotone.

Yeah, Queenie's just easier for me to talk to because I don't have to make myself appear more normal to be understood.

User: kiokushitaka Date: 2010-05-01 00:24 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: DUO Goodluck & Goodbye

Well you type normally! I have a hard time looking people in the eye when I talk to them... It's just weird really to me. I don't do it the whole time I'm talking usually I divert my attention elsewhere. *shrugs* Monotone on the other hand isn't something I do really but I have friends who speak in monotone so I'm used to it. XD

I pretty much type the way I talk in terms of language.

User: bar_ohki Date: 2010-05-01 00:30 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: MamoChuckle

One of the reasons I write so much fanfiction is to help myself try and understand normal people better by role playing their actions in a story setting. It's often hard to tell if a written word was done by an autistic person unless something kind of fundamental wasn't adding up.

But in person I can pass as a normal, non-autistic person, just don't ask me to lie (still can't get that right after 21 years of kind of trying). But in typing I don't really have to tell you my tone, my body language, or expect you to do anything but take my words at face value. You have to take typed words at face value because there's no non-verbals for context for hidden meanings.

That's why I type normally.

User: kiokushitaka Date: 2010-05-01 00:38 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: ASSCRD Ezio prepare to bleed

That makes sense. Still, I have a feeling if we hung out in real life I wouldn't think you were weird, even if I already know you're autistic. Just because some of the things people in the US consider to be how you're supposed to socialize... I come from a different cultural background, so things change.

User: bar_ohki Date: 2010-05-01 00:43 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: SasakuraHappy

Most of my real friends don't. I tend to hang out with alternative, off the norm kinds of people anyways.