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Here's a fun game for all of you
by MJIthewriter, May 06, 2008 04:36AM
, May 06, 2008 04:36AM
This is an offshoot from something I was posting on another forum. I am playing this game with the thought there are a lot of "autistic" like traits in just about every human. Just for some it gets to be to a measurable degree. The ones that have it to a measurable degree are considered to have a disability. Now when that point gets to be considered a disability is debatable.
For the rest of the people, they are on their own. I'm trying to think of words, terms or traits that could perhaps be used to describe autism in an otherwise considered 'normal' human.
Here's a good story:
Wife comes in the house, finds the floor cluttered with toys, pencil shavings, dirt, a spill, etc...
She says, "The place is a mess! Why didn't you do any work?"
Husband shrugs off wife's comment, thinking it was just a comment...
An hour later:
Wife comes in complains at Husband for being lazy.
Husband is confused.
Eventually wife pulls out the vacuum and starts working, meanwhile grumbling at husband for not understanding "The place is a mess = "Will you please get off your ***, turn off the TV, pick up the vacuum, plug it in, turn it on, go to where the pencil shavings are and vac it up."
Okay is Husband autistic for not understanding? I don't know. I'll let the wife make that decision. ;)
Okay is the wife autistic because she expected Husband to intuitively know what she was thinking? I don't know. I'll let the husband make that decision. ;)
If you think about it, this kind of misunderstanding occurs a lot between autistic people and autistic and non autistic people. People get accused of being too literal, expecting others to read their mind, and so on...
Now let's let the game begin. :D
You can add a term or a story.
Terms (I’ve come up with for starters):
Introvert, shy, unmotivated, lazy, late bloomer, dedicated
Stories: (add yours please. I already shared a story using my parents above.)
For the rest of the people, they are on their own. I'm trying to think of words, terms or traits that could perhaps be used to describe autism in an otherwise considered 'normal' human.
Here's a good story:
Wife comes in the house, finds the floor cluttered with toys, pencil shavings, dirt, a spill, etc...
She says, "The place is a mess! Why didn't you do any work?"
Husband shrugs off wife's comment, thinking it was just a comment...
An hour later:
Wife comes in complains at Husband for being lazy.
Husband is confused.
Eventually wife pulls out the vacuum and starts working, meanwhile grumbling at husband for not understanding "The place is a mess = "Will you please get off your ***, turn off the TV, pick up the vacuum, plug it in, turn it on, go to where the pencil shavings are and vac it up."
Okay is Husband autistic for not understanding? I don't know. I'll let the wife make that decision. ;)
Okay is the wife autistic because she expected Husband to intuitively know what she was thinking? I don't know. I'll let the husband make that decision. ;)
If you think about it, this kind of misunderstanding occurs a lot between autistic people and autistic and non autistic people. People get accused of being too literal, expecting others to read their mind, and so on...
Now let's let the game begin. :D
You can add a term or a story.
Terms (I’ve come up with for starters):
Introvert, shy, unmotivated, lazy, late bloomer, dedicated
Stories: (add yours please. I already shared a story using my parents above.)
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Husband comes home and says he has invited Mary and John for dinner tomorrow.
Wife says nothing. But is secretly seething that husband has invited people without talking to her about it. And gets even more upset as husband hasn't noticed that she has said nothing. So is husband autistic for not checking with his wife first and for then not picking up on the 'silence'.
But husband didn't run the idea past his wife beforehand because he knows his wife doesn't like to bring people into her house. So is wife autistic because her home is her haven or because she expects her husband to read her mind.
Scenario: work trip not announced...
Husband: Remember I'm leaving tomorrow for California?
Wife: What? When? WHy? How long?
Husband: I didn't tell you?
Wife: It's not on the calendar either!
Husband: Sorry. (writes it on the calander)
(wife is now happy she knows and that it is on the calander where things are planned out. Discussion is over. Both wife and husband are happy.)
Next day, extended family member calls: Where's husband?
wife: He just went on a trip for a week.
family member: Oh, when was this decided? How come you didn't tell me, so I could come visit?
Wife: I just found out.
Family member: When?
Wife: Yesterday.
Family member: Aren't you upset? Don't you two communicate with each other? You two have some marital issues you need to work through! He really didn't tell you? Why aren't you upset? You ought to be upset. I'm upset about it.
(It's interesting why something that I'm not upset about would make another person upset when they aren't the ones affected. I've also been accused of not communicating properly with my husband and that if we can't communicate, we can't have a happy marriage. it is also interesting that in reality, we are happily married, and some of these people who accuse us of having poor communication and it will ruin our marriage are people who are divorced. So, we're doign a lot better than they think! And maybe they're doing worse than they think!)
So are husband and wife autistic or is the family member a jerk?
Dad is concerned for daughters happiness. Daughter is concerned about her boyfriend relationship.
Terms: hormonal female teenager
It's a spectrum that extends to all humans. Maybe a scale in a way. On one end is probably a "disability" opposite of autism, then in the middle it's barely measurable so called "neuro typicals" "non autistic" people and then on the other end it starts to be a measurable disability that gets the actual autism diagnosis.
Not just that but "autism" can come with a variety of other brain conditions that have varying degrees among the human population.
As far as what “causes” these things is up in the air. Some people believe autoimmune disorders either genetic or triggered by the environment have a play in the brain chemistry and function.
Now I'm off to read everyone's stories, lol.