[lojban] Re: Aspie

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk>]

Pierre:
> On Monday 26 May 2003 07:49, And Rosta wrote:
> > Something based on "toljikca cizra", 'anti-sociably bizarre'?
> 
> I'm not anti-social, I'm somewhat socially inept. 

That's why I wrote "anti-sociably" and not "anti-socially". 
"toljikca" = "polar opposite of socializing".

> And I don't find aspieness bizarre, and AFAICT most people I know don't 
> either - 

"cizra" = "unusual, strange". If aspergers were not unusual &
noteworthy it would not be a named condition.

"Remarkworthily strange by virtue of comparative deficit in social
abilities" strikes me as a fairly good one-phrase summary of
aspergerism. For extreme autism, the idea of not seeing beyond
oneself might be apter.

> they enjoy my puns and 
> are astonished that I remember such facts as {li refi'uci du li zai 
> misrysnile'u bu tei moklu bu re foi}, which came up in Bible study recently 
> when reading that Elisha asked Elijah for pi-shnayim of his power 
> 
> See http://www.toseland.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DIS/specific/asperger.htm for 
> characteristicts of aspies 

For those who accept the notion of the autism continuum, I reckon most
lojbanists probably fall towards the autistic end to a statistically
significant degree. Certainly my wife & some friends describe me as
'autistic' (or 'Mekon'/'Vulcan'), which is nonsense in clinical terms, 
but not nonsense as a way of characterizing certain salient personality 
traits.

--And.