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Creative or Low EQ & Logical?

Seanado

I have noticed that some of my fellow autistics describe themselves in terms of 'creative' or 'empathetic'.

I do not share the creative trait, at least not in visual terms.

I am highly logical and I score very low on the empathy scale (low EQ, which is considered a typical indicator for those on the autism spectrum).

Are you in the 'creative' camp or the 'low EQ' camp?

Are there two kinds of autistic? If not, then how do we reconcile the difference between the creatives and the low EQs?

Parents

  • I am creative and highly empathetic, although I have been described as unempathetic because I can be too blunt and tactless. However I am also very analytical, not sure about logical because I am driven by my emotions. I don't think it's true that autistics are unempathetic; we just don't know how to express our empathy sometimes, and we get baffled by NTs and their nonsensical ways.

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  • I am creative and highly empathetic, although I have been described as unempathetic because I can be too blunt and tactless. However I am also very analytical, not sure about logical because I am driven by my emotions. I don't think it's true that autistics are unempathetic; we just don't know how to express our empathy sometimes, and we get baffled by NTs and their nonsensical ways.

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  • in reply to violetdr3amer

    Join the club!

    I struggle with interviews because I'm 'too blunt' and 'not a storyteller.'  I find it hard to remember the right words to say when asked Job Interview questions; constantly chasing buzzwords with little articulacy. A lot of it was being forced to 'listen' my whole life by my gran, teachers, other female relatives and the closest woman I ever had to a partner. (and, now, my online buddy from Toronto)

    They say that men are 'too soft.' Well, no wonder. We can't get a word in edgeways. Expressionless