Re: CHAT: R: Re: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Mangiat wrote:
> > but now I'm an average reserved boy.
>
> Boy?  Oops, I'd been assuming Luca was a feminine name.  I'm embarrassed
> now.  :-/
And about a year ago, *I* was assuming Nik was a feminine name.  But I
never told.

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> > I had this passion for pair numbers when I was a little boy. I remember me
> > counting the steps from my house to my elementary school. Yet I remember i
> > always had to put the right foot before the left one when i entered a new
> > hall.
>
> I still have a tendency, when walking on a sidewalk, to want to
> alternate between crossing the crack with my right foot and crossing it
> with my left foot.  Not so much now, but when I was younger it was
> practically essential.
I have a definite obsession with even numbers, and pairs.  If I step on
a crack with my left foot, I have to step on another with my right foot,
in exactly the same way.  Everything has to be even, in a symmetrical
sort of way.  Like if I scratch my right arm, I scratch my left arm too
in the same place -- this isn't as bad now as it used to be, but it
still happens.  But I have lots of other OCD-ish symptoms too, so it's
not very surprising.

Nicole
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