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Aspie traits lessen when in a good mood

Laddo

Lately I've noticed that my aspie traits tend to dampen quite significantly when I'm in a good mood. Things like talking to strangers and making eye contact seem easy and not at all the massive chore they are when I'm not feeling my best. I find I have a lot more to add to conversations and quite energetic. Sometimes this will happen even if I'm in a fairly neutral mode. It's like mood swings but with autistic traits instead of moods. Is this normal in aspies? Or am I just a weirdo? I'm 23, in case it's at all relevant.

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  • The only people I have made eye contact with, for more than a second, were my children when they were small.

    Anyone else, I just can't do it. I cannot even explain why not. It sets off some inexplicable unpleasant feeling.

    I once heard that actors findit difficult to maintain, for close up shots on film. The technique some use, is to focus on a near by part of the face, eg nose. I opt for the mouth.

    There is something fundamentally illogical about this issue, that I don't understand. The other person can look at our eyes and understand what we think. By not looking at them, we lose out. What do we gain from this inability? We hide nothing, just  lose out by not looking at the other persons eyes. Has any research been done as to why we cannot do this?

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  • The only people I have made eye contact with, for more than a second, were my children when they were small.

    Anyone else, I just can't do it. I cannot even explain why not. It sets off some inexplicable unpleasant feeling.

    I once heard that actors findit difficult to maintain, for close up shots on film. The technique some use, is to focus on a near by part of the face, eg nose. I opt for the mouth.

    There is something fundamentally illogical about this issue, that I don't understand. The other person can look at our eyes and understand what we think. By not looking at them, we lose out. What do we gain from this inability? We hide nothing, just  lose out by not looking at the other persons eyes. Has any research been done as to why we cannot do this?

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