Oh no Kylissa don't misunderstand. I'm simply saying that I don't know what to make of your results. They puzzle me. ASD is something that can only be suppressed for small intervals, and then it all unleashes again because it's the makeup our your brain, permanent for life. It's like (and this is going to be a weir analogy because I'm weird) a woman abuser putting on his best show to get a woman, but then before long he begins to abuse her because that's who he really is and he couldn't keep the fake self, the lie, going because he's a psychopath; or a homosexual pretending to be straight, having a coverup girlfriend, but eventually not being able to keep up the hoax because he just doesn't like women, it's who he is. So it's just weird to me that you could literally cut your AS score in half and go from AS to NT so drastically. To me that sounds like other disorders and complexes that aren't caused by the genetic and biological makeup of the brain and can be corrected, which would explain the score and your ability to overcome. No accusations and nothing bad, just me putting a theory together.
Well, you've got me mildly interested by the processes by which I did so. For example, predicting and understanding and I believe ultimately developing a degree of empathy for others. At least as I understand those things. It was a long process - this may sound weird. But I could pick up little cues from animals. Then I read many dozens of fairly realistic anthropomorphic "animal point of view" novels, mostly several or many times each. I can still understand animals that I am familiar with better than people, as far as body language, etc. People have said it's as if I "read the animal's minds" which of course I don't. I just pick up on those tiny cues and I know how they feel, what they're about to do, what they want, and so on. It makes me outstanding at training animals - I probably should have gone into that, lol. But it provided a kind of "bridge," I think, and I put intense work into it for decades. Although I can't "read" people like I can animals, I believe it has helped me immensely. There are other things that helped as well - this was only part of it. But I've been thinking about it since I took this quiz. And some things do remain difficult for me. I'm still terrible with faces, for example. But many things I was able to learn, and yes, in certain things I do recognize that my brain worked differently, but it works well enough
and with effort I can learn a great deal, thank God.
Some things were easier. Like I said, I can't control the sensory stuff, though in large part I can control how I react to it. Some I have not yet gotten control over, but they are isolated enough things that I function just fine. No one has to be able to bite raw onions, have sticky hands, or eat food that has been in proximity to iceberg lettuce (that last one means fast food can be a problem though). But most things I have reached a point I deal with it with no one noticing. Some things still give me instant migraines, and some very specific driving conditions I have to avoid because my eyes won't work right, but those rarely happen.
I don't know really. I know I was very different from everyone else in most ways. My childhood memories and experiences never sound like what anyone else relates. But now, all I can say is that I have some little idiosyncrasies (don't we all?!) and some of these are advantages to me in a way. I've pretty much learned to deal with the disadvantage part. Some things take me being purposeful and applying effort, and probably always will. I've been working on it consciously for over 40 years, so ... What still requires effort makes me think it always will. But I am fine in the way I function.
Speaking of which - many of those questions basically assess how one FUNCTIONS, not how one perceives or thinks, for the most part. With that in mind, it doesn't surprise me then that the results changed so drastically.
But as far as real labels for anything, I can't give any. Not sure if that really answers your post or not. And was probably more than I really like to say. But you've gotten me interested in the topic a bit.
. That was my thing, my world, and they were my friends. Mine. All mine. Well, one day I woke up a little late and found my parents and siblings watching Charmed. They had never watched it before. I immediately became furious and grilled them on what they were doing. They, of course, said they were watching Charmed, and they didn't know why I was so upset. I stormed off and didn't speak to anyone unless forces to for probably weeks. They invaded my world, stole my friends, and hijacked my interest.
