(March 31, 2023 at 1:51 pm)FlatAssembler 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.
Well, I am diagnozed with a psychotic disorder. And I am taking Risperidone against hallucinations, Biperiden against shaky hands and Alprazolam against panic attacks. I fail to see how it can be related to my interest in the names of places, though.
It isn't. I just wondered if you were on the autistic spectrum was all, but it was not my place to ask or suggest, so I'm sorry I brought it up.