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What Emily and Ange say makes a lot of sense. I can get up in front of a room full of people and run traginnis on topics that interest me, and it's both energizing and exhausting. But an evening with my husband's extended family makes me want to curl up in a corner and hide. It takes a huge amount of energy to play-act my way through social interactions, and I'm willing to muster that energy only if there's a reward that makes it worthwhile. I still have to re-read e-mails and remind myself to insert greetings and social niceties before I click "send." Without this second reading, my communication comes off as utilitarian, unfriendly, and overly blunt. I compliment people on their clothing or on pictures of their children taped to their cubicle walls, because I have watched and memorized these transactions and I know that's what people do to build and reinforce relationships. I know I need the relationships to survive at work; I just don't have the hard-wired ability to maintain them without conscious effort. I don't bother to fake it with real friends, because the real ones are on my wavelength to begin with. Like many of the parents who commented above, I'm not autistic. But as an introverted sensory-sensitive intensely focused obsessively organized hyperlexic socially awkward geek, I'm a big believer in the broad autistic phenotype.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Aparecida
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17 december 2014, 05:00:20
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