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

Have you heard of the true story of Vladimir Markov? Basically, don't mess with an Amur tiger. This man stole the kill of an Amur tiger and then wounded it, and it patiently hunted him down over several days very much like a human assassin.

(Not suggesting you're an assassin, but it's a very interesting story.)

Well morality doesn't really apply to tigers. He screwed with the wrong animal by the sound of it and got what was coming to him. When a tiger makes a kill it expects to eat it it. If someone else comes in an changes what is supposed to happen, whats happened a million times, its meltdown time and hes gonna get it. He should have had more sense.  What that story tells me is that people should consider their actions more than they seem too. I don't blame the tiger the man should have known better. However that's not why I feel a connection with those animals its more their psychology which results in them being quiet, hidden and utterly independent etc (not the part where sometimes they eat stupid people :) ) . Tigers and other solitary animals are used as models for autism such as rats. Contrast a Tiger with a Lion, the tiger lives alone, does its own thing, is quiet and discrete, likes to hide away in their own space, doesn't hang around other tigers, is only interested its own thing etc, Lions however are extremely social, spend alot of time with other lions, prance around in the open showing themselves off  etc. More functional autistics are more like tigers and tigers are not just disabled lions they are tigers, NT's are more like lions. Also I'm not trying to make us feel better or empowered or something like that. Its a direct comparison of elements of our nature and theirs. There might be the odd mismatch i.e. some of us are not independent etc but to me there are a number of directly similarities. 

Further similarities to me at least, tiger stripes are unique to each tiger (if you meet one autistic person you've met one autistic person), tigers are much fewer in number than lions (there are far fewer autistic people in the world) which are much more similar to eachother than they are different, tigers are given a very hard time i.e. they are seen as problems to be removed in certain parts of the world (just like autistic people). 

I think if you look at this through an NT lense you might come to the wrong conclusions about why I am making this comparison. Thats something I find they do. The see any actions through an NT prism and thats a source of great misunderstanding of us on their part. I guess we do something similar that might be why we don't understand them alot of the time so have to resort to other means to get some picture of them.

Well morality doesn't really apply to tigers. He screwed with the wrong animal by the sound of it and got what was coming to him. When a tiger makes a kill it expects to eat it it. If someone else comes in an changes what is supposed to happen, whats happened a million times, its meltdown time and hes gonna get it. He should have had more sense.  What that story tells me is that people should consider their actions more than they seem too. I don't blame the tiger the man should have known better. However that's not why I feel a connection with those animals its more their psychology which results in them being quiet, hidden and utterly independent etc (not the part where sometimes they eat stupid people :) ) . Tigers and other solitary animals are used as models for autism such as rats. Contrast a Tiger with a Lion, the tiger lives alone, does its own thing, is quiet and discrete, likes to hide away in their own space, doesn't hang around other tigers, is only interested its own thing etc, Lions however are extremely social, spend alot of time with other lions, prance around in the open showing themselves off  etc. More functional autistics are more like tigers and tigers are not just disabled lions they are tigers, NT's are more like lions. Also I'm not trying to make us feel better or empowered or something like that. Its a direct comparison of elements of our nature and theirs. There might be the odd mismatch i.e. some of us are not independent etc but to me there are a number of directly similarities. 

Further similarities to me at least, tiger stripes are unique to each tiger (if you meet one autistic person you've met one autistic person), tigers are much fewer in number than lions (there are far fewer autistic people in the world) which are much more similar to eachother than they are different, tigers are given a very hard time i.e. they are seen as problems to be removed in certain parts of the world (just like autistic people). 

I think if you look at this through an NT lense you might come to the wrong conclusions about why I am making this comparison. Thats something I find they do. The see any actions through an NT prism and thats a source of great misunderstanding of us on their part. I guess we do something similar that might be why we don't understand them alot of the time so have to resort to other means to get some picture of them.