How are people with aspergers perceptions of the world different than those without aspergers?
They must see the world differently, how does it look through their eyes? People who have, Aspergers, answers are especially appreciated...
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This is a very complex question, and one that is not easily answered. I have not been diagnosed with asperger's syndrome, but I do have many asperger's tendencies, and I have come into contact with quite a few people who have asperger's.
In general, people with asperger's syndrome have trouble with social conventions and understanding the unwritten rules of social interaction. For instance, they often have difficulty reading other people's facial expressions and body language. Social rules that most people comply to without ever thinking about can be very confusing to people with asperger's syndrome, and they often have difficulty processing and dealing with emotions. This inability to grasp social conventions can create frustration and a feeling that everyone else is in on a secret that you are missing out on. Verbal communication is often difficult for individuals with asperger's syndrome, and they may find it easier to communicate through creative expression such as painting or music. Of course it is difficult for a person with asperger's (or asperger's tendencies) to explain how their perceptions are different from the rest of the world because they don't always understand the way that others see things, and therefore don't realize what the differences are.
An excellent resource on this topic is the book "Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Grandin. She describes her own personal experience living with asperger's syndrome and speaks in depth about the way her mind works differently. There are also several other books by Temple Grandin that would be worth looking into.
Asperger's Disorder is a milder variant of Autistic Disorder. Both Asperger's Disorder and Autistic Disorder are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category. This larger category is called either Autistic Spectrum Disorders, mostly in European countries, or Pervasive Developmental Disorders ("PDD"), in the United States.
In Asperger's Disorder, affected individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication. Though grammatical, their speech is peculiar due to abnormalities of inflection and a repetitive pattern. Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behavior. They usually have a circumscribed area of interest which usually leaves no space for more age appropriate, common interests. Some examples are cars, trains, French Literature, door knobs, hinges, cappucino, meteorology, astronomy or history.
I been told I am very slightly Asberger's (not a problem and not diagnosed)
I would stylise it as not filtering out as much irrelevant detail as others might do. For me it helps me to be a lateral thinker and to spot solutions to problems and situations that others might miss.
For more pronounced cases, there could be too much concentration on detail, making communication and contact with other people more problematic, because they don't see it for what it is.
in extreme cases, you are talking more about autism .. where the distraction by detail impairs perception of the big picture, and understanding that there really are other poeple out there, and empathising with them.
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This is a very complex question, and one that is not easily answered. I have not been diagnosed with asperger's syndrome, but I do have many asperger's tendencies, and I have come into contact with quite a few people who have asperger's.
In general, people with asperger's syndrome have trouble with social conventions and understanding the unwritten rules of social interaction. For instance, they often have difficulty reading other people's facial expressions and body language. Social rules that most people comply to without ever thinking about can be very confusing to people with asperger's syndrome, and they often have difficulty processing and dealing with emotions. This inability to grasp social conventions can create frustration and a feeling that everyone else is in on a secret that you are missing out on. Verbal communication is often difficult for individuals with asperger's syndrome, and they may find it easier to communicate through creative expression such as painting or music. Of course it is difficult for a person with asperger's (or asperger's tendencies) to explain how their perceptions are different from the rest of the world because they don't always understand the way that others see things, and therefore don't realize what the differences are.
An excellent resource on this topic is the book "Thinking in Pictures" by Temple Grandin. She describes her own personal experience living with asperger's syndrome and speaks in depth about the way her mind works differently. There are also several other books by Temple Grandin that would be worth looking into.
Asperger's Disorder is a milder variant of Autistic Disorder. Both Asperger's Disorder and Autistic Disorder are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category. This larger category is called either Autistic Spectrum Disorders, mostly in European countries, or Pervasive Developmental Disorders ("PDD"), in the United States.
In Asperger's Disorder, affected individuals are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication. Though grammatical, their speech is peculiar due to abnormalities of inflection and a repetitive pattern. Clumsiness is prominent both in their articulation and gross motor behavior. They usually have a circumscribed area of interest which usually leaves no space for more age appropriate, common interests. Some examples are cars, trains, French Literature, door knobs, hinges, cappucino, meteorology, astronomy or history.
I been told I am very slightly Asberger's (not a problem and not diagnosed)
I would stylise it as not filtering out as much irrelevant detail as others might do. For me it helps me to be a lateral thinker and to spot solutions to problems and situations that others might miss.
For more pronounced cases, there could be too much concentration on detail, making communication and contact with other people more problematic, because they don't see it for what it is.
in extreme cases, you are talking more about autism .. where the distraction by detail impairs perception of the big picture, and understanding that there really are other poeple out there, and empathising with them.
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