Greetings from a highly functional asperger autist,
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My mentality is ASD, the opposite of ADD, that is, Attention Surplus
Disorder. The average persons have an attention span of eight seconds
(per McGill University 2015 study[was twelve seconds in 2010 study]) which
means their consciousness no longer cogitates what they were thinking nine
seconds ago. You have experienced this when you say to yourself, "What was
I just thinking?"
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McGill researchers cited smart phones as a primary cause of the reduced attention
span. Other researchers cite the impersonal nature of cell phones, as well
as social media, as a cause for reduced interpersonal skills and increased
depression. The reputed tools of connectivity are downhill paths of intelligence
and happiness. For some people, they are connectivity cliffs, aka, suicides.
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With ASD, one discerns discontinuity or contradictions in average
attention-spanners. When queried about inconsistencies, most people go on
the defensive as they do not remember what they just said. Many turn on their
anger engines. Their ego defense introduces thin-skinned mental blockage
that further reduces mental recollections. In effect, a lower attention span
predisposes one to be natural, unintentional hypocrites, i.e., dumber than
one's usual normal. And, if you throw in low-information truisms, one finds
it takes a fool to argue with a fool.
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A true autist with ASD learns to withdraw from social interactions
as the inherent natural and relative hypocrisy of others causes
inner discord. There is a difference between intentional and intellect hypocrisy
as one can see in a child explaining how to play chess as if it were checkers.
ASD'er are accused of being argumentative when all one is trying to do is
to clarify what the automatic hypocrite means in his words.
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ASD'ers are verbal chess-players rather than mere checker-movers. They use
big words because they can cogitate the broader, deeper meaning for apt
application to the nuance of the moment.
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A true autist is a big diamond in the rough who requires more
polishing than the average child. But, given care, an autist will shine brighter.
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Most parents with true and pseudo autistic children
want others to foot the bill as they continue to spend money that worsen
CO2 levels: shop-till-you-drop, sports play-play-play ... gas guzzlers, etc.
There are exceptions. Almost two decades ago at a summer party, I told the
host that I thought her one-year-old daughter exhibited autistic tendency.
As a friend she took no offense. Six months later, a doctor diagnosed autism.
The mother quit her high-paying office manager job to focus on being her
daughter's full-time companion up to middle-school. At this point the daughter
was able to function independently with achievements in academia and music.
But, she still is autistic as when I meet her in high school. Ahe is asocial.
I am proud of this mother (Michelle) who knows her daughter will not end
up in a back ward for convenience sake.
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As an ASD'er, I was lucky to have had life-helpers who helped reverse my
childhood and adolescent life
hell.
Timism, the Morality of More Time, aka, Periodic Table of Existence is a
tribute to my ASD of asperger autism.
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I can tie things together because I have a broader attention span to juggle
more information. One is a transductive rather than deductive or inductive
reasoner.
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I find information more interesting than people. By the age of eight I had
page thru the 20-volume World Book encyclopedia five times.
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I am a longer because I find most human contact rife with hypocrisy and pettiness
so I have more time to think (I designed my den to be a thinking chamber.)
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I don't waste time on wants as much as most people as I see the cancerous
time-losses in wants.
Taken all together, Timism is a validation of my existence as a thinking
being with a high ASD. My college achievement is but straw before my eyes
compared to Timism.
If you find Attentions Surplus Disorder too onerous to understand, a simple
phrase will substitute, "ASD'ers are smarter than most."
When you realize you dislike me, you will know the
reason
that most people don't like me when they meet me.
After awhile, few do.