Sarah Palin says: No Rain, No Rainbow

[slyc_willie]

Palin, I think, runs more towards the personality disorder end of things, Narcissistic Personality Disorder or something like that. I looked them both up, and one of the differences is that, while Aspies may seem to lack empathy, that seems to be more due to an inability to process some social cues in the same way others do. With NPD, the lack of empathy is more linked to the person's belief that they are somehow more entitled to attention and deference than others.

I thought that was just being American!

But you're right about Asperger's. They just don't have the same filters that enable them to 'read' people. They often react in inappropriate ways; giggling at a funeral, deadpan look when everyone else is laughing, etc. There are varying degrees, as with just about everything else in the world.

 

[Xelebes]

I often have fits when I get home from work because the urge to give in to my various ticks builds up. It worries the SO sometimes, and to be honest, it can be a real pain. I've pulled muscles and strained tendons with some of the arm and hand movements I do.

What I find most funny are the assumptions made about Tourette's. I tell people at work I have it, and they look at me funny as if they're expecting me to launch into a fit of cursing. It's always fun to explain what coprolalia is and that I don't have it.

I sometimes go into bursts of cussing. But thankfully to my Aspergers, I also have a speech impediment and thus slur my cussing to illegibility. I only started doing it to draw my tics away from the more painful neck jerking. The neck jerking is the most debilitating tic of mine and makes me bloody afraid of doing many things, especially when it comes to work related things (operating machinery, handling knives.)

 

[slyc_willie]

I sometimes go into bursts of cussing. But thankfully to my Aspergers, I also have a speech impediment and thus slur my cussing to illegibility. I only started doing it to draw my tics away from the more painful neck jerking. The neck jerking is the most debilitating tic of mine and makes me bloody afraid of doing many things, especially when it comes to work related things (operating machinery, handling knives.)

I can imagine. Mine's gotten easier to control as I've aged, but there are still times when the tics really act up.

Man -- it's hard enough just dealing with Tourette's. I can't imagine having Asperger's atop it. Kudos, my man.

 

[Xelebes]

Well, fortunately there isn't much pain with Asperger's as there is with Tourette's, physically.

 

[3113]

They often react in inappropriate ways; giggling at a funeral

Funerals aren't supposed to be funny? Why didn't any one tell me that? That explains the odd looks I get

 

[slyc_willie]

Funerals aren't supposed to be funny? Why didn't any one tell me that? That explains the odd looks I get

Well, some of them could be, I suppose.

 

[Xelebes]

Like Michael Jackson's?

 

[slyc_willie]

Like Michael Jackson's?

I wasn't going to say it . . . .