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What reclusive animal do you as an ASD person most identify with?

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I love animals, and recently I have started to identify with certain aspects of an amur tiger. Not the size, power etc of the animal, I am average physically but the psychology and the lifestyle that these animals seem to exhibit. Completely independent, quiet, hidden, discrete and has a sense of order also with no fear in dealing with anything that they feel disturbs the balance and order in their environment.  They can also figure out the source of problems with the tiniest of clues and track the problem down to the source.  What other types of animals do other people with ASD identify with and why?

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  • Sloths! I was once having my afternoon tea in a rain forest margin area, and spotted something lurking in a Leylandii tree. Why someone thought Leylandii was suitable for a tropical garden, Gordan only knows; but the Sloth was curled up in it fast asleep on a very hot and humid afternoon. I took a bit of a closer peek and decided it would better off going back into some more natural jungle where someone would find it a lot more difficult to capture. That at least proved to me that if disturbed they can move quite quickly. It obviously liked the Leylandii because some canopy trees were overhanging it. It moved quite quickly in a most steady manner into the top of the canopy. I was later told that sloths have been known to climb up telegraph poles and get completely stuck under tensioning wires or struts.  Yeah, I have quite a few sloth-like tendencies. ;-)

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  • Sloths! I was once having my afternoon tea in a rain forest margin area, and spotted something lurking in a Leylandii tree. Why someone thought Leylandii was suitable for a tropical garden, Gordan only knows; but the Sloth was curled up in it fast asleep on a very hot and humid afternoon. I took a bit of a closer peek and decided it would better off going back into some more natural jungle where someone would find it a lot more difficult to capture. That at least proved to me that if disturbed they can move quite quickly. It obviously liked the Leylandii because some canopy trees were overhanging it. It moved quite quickly in a most steady manner into the top of the canopy. I was later told that sloths have been known to climb up telegraph poles and get completely stuck under tensioning wires or struts.  Yeah, I have quite a few sloth-like tendencies. ;-)

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