(March 31, 2023 at 11:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 31, 2023 at 10:32 am)emjay Wrote: I don't know if this is inappropriate, and if it is I apologise to FlatAssembler for bringing it up (and also, to be clear, I'm not attacking you here, just bringing this up because it seems relevant), but then many in my life have suggested I may also be on the Autistic/Asperger's spectrum albeit "high functioning" (though never diagnosed), but it seems to me that this could be related to that. Ie a) obsessive interest in often niche subjects, and b) a common trait of Autism apparently being to have variable levels of difficulty understanding other people's perspectives etc, due to deficits in creating a 'theory of mind' of others' mental states, including their levels of interest etc.
In my own case I'm sure you've read my walls of text and thought either 'what a load of bollocks' and/or 'no one cares' (not just you, I mean anyone... and not necessarily about everything I write but at least some), and the extent that I can theorise that that's what you do or might think speaks to my ability to create 'theories of mind'... which overall seems pretty good or at least adequate (which might equate to 'high functioning'), but nonetheless I do think I still have deficits in that area, often - due to a certain rigidness in my thinking - assuming interest and/or understanding that probably in many cases isn't there.
It is entirely possible that Flat is on the spectrum. This doesn't alter the fact that I have no interest in place name in Croatia.
Boru
Fair enough... as I said I wasn't attacking you. And as I also said, I wasn't sure how appropriate it was to bring this up any way, not just for his sake but in general. In other words just chalk it up to more 'foot in mouth' disease, which unfortunately I'm often afflicted with
