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Aspie traits lessen when in a good mood

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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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  • It's the fact that we are seen as something to avoid that is the most offensive to me.

    I don't think difficult making eye contact is illogical though. In many non-human animals, eye contact is seen as a threat, while in others, it is seen as a method of bonding, just like in humans. Personally, I believe that our feelings of being threatened by eye contact relate to certain genetic variations that may not be present in the majority of the population. Does this make us weaker, though? Not necessarily. It makes us different, just like a blonde woman is physically different to a brunette. She does not necessarily lack any other traits over the brunette woman, instead she is simply different - an individual. 

    Humans are arguably the most complex species on the planet. We all look somewhat alike - two eyes, two ears, two arms, two legs etc. - yet we have so many different variations in our personalities, our beliefs, our ideologies. If a sentient being visited Earth and classified the different species, autistic people may be seen as different to 'normal' people - we look the same but act differently, just like a jackal looks a lot like a dog, yet it behaves slightly differently

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  • It's the fact that we are seen as something to avoid that is the most offensive to me.

    I don't think difficult making eye contact is illogical though. In many non-human animals, eye contact is seen as a threat, while in others, it is seen as a method of bonding, just like in humans. Personally, I believe that our feelings of being threatened by eye contact relate to certain genetic variations that may not be present in the majority of the population. Does this make us weaker, though? Not necessarily. It makes us different, just like a blonde woman is physically different to a brunette. She does not necessarily lack any other traits over the brunette woman, instead she is simply different - an individual. 

    Humans are arguably the most complex species on the planet. We all look somewhat alike - two eyes, two ears, two arms, two legs etc. - yet we have so many different variations in our personalities, our beliefs, our ideologies. If a sentient being visited Earth and classified the different species, autistic people may be seen as different to 'normal' people - we look the same but act differently, just like a jackal looks a lot like a dog, yet it behaves slightly differently

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