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After 28 years of “I married Sheldon,” THIS is spot on! I could also tell when my beloved was tired or ill because his acting training failed and his voice lost all “affect” (became a monotone) and he lost all those trained facial expresion (his Dad is a doctor, they sent him to acting class about age 6). Not to mention I spent a good part of our marriage “reading the room” or “reading people” and explaining to him later verbally what the heck was “really” going on. Because I am deep level empath with training in cultural anthorpology (observation). He never did understand WHY people just DIDN’T SAY how they were feeling? I would tell him over and over that most people don’t use words for this. He believed me but didn’t understand. Because so many powerful people today, especially in the tech field are classic “Aspies” with the super-high intelligence but the rest of the sometimes annoying package that goes with it (for us nuro-typical folks) this video is very important in understanding some of our “wanna-be” overlords.
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I’ve had much the same experience, mostly with engineers. I’ve done the same explaining you’ve done. Most of the time I had no problem with any of it, however, had one fellow who always crossed the streets in downtown Houston in the middle of the street and not at the crosswalks, regardless of whether the light was with him or not. In those days, he could get away with it unscathed; today, it’s a different matter. Why did Harold do it? It was more “efficient”, and “It saves time not going all the way down to the end of the street, then, having to go the other direction”. You know the drill.
If you have any good videos on Asperger’s, please post them. I don’t see where this man got enough thumbs up to make another video but, wish he had.
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Unfortunately this guy and his YouTube channel are doing regular hocus-pocus wanna be psychologists trying to read people’s apearences in to a real science, since the one on this subject doesn’t exist.
Elon’s Aspergers is a part of mystique and uniqueness he is creating for his public image.
He has never produced any medical evidence of alleged mental disorder.
He is clearly in range of narcissistic and psychopathic behavior. Even his former wife Justine calls him high functioning narcisist.
Here is a decent and quite logical explanation of Musk’s claim of AD.
My Wolf was never officially diagnosed, either. My FIL pointed out something when I first learned the name, and I replied, “Go read the descriptions in a medical text.” He never brought it up again.
I don’t know about the rest of his videos, but this one is spot on. Anyone who has lived with an Aspie 24/7 for decades can spot someone this far “down the spectrum.” And it isn’t a mental disorder, either. It is a different type of brain wiring. Mine has been tested too, and I’m NOT an Aspie (the opposite), but I do have “different” brain wiring from most people.
I also have an uncommon personality type (tested at least three times professionally). ENFP isn’t the rarest but is pretty low on the typical scale. Like Mark Twain (considered an ENFP), I see the world differently and sometimes rather bitingly. That isn’t a mental deformity, just a different way my brain sees things. But I agree Elon probably is a high-functioning narcissist and most people would see that as a mental disorder. Or at least not someone they want to be around if they can avoid it.
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You bet you can spot’em!
The last customer today was an Aspie. I thought back to this post immediately and tried not to snicker…(Don’t, don’t, just don’t.) It was ironic. This fellow had been through some kind of socialization therapy though; very ordered in his answers and even asked my name and shook my hand before he left. It was all very telling.
It IS brain wiring, for sure.