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Re: Woman exhibits absolutely no abnormal behavior, is diagnosed with Asperger's by Mischief Maker 02/01/2007, 6:41pm PST
Zseni wrote:

Kiriana's similar strategy amounts to remembering and rehearsing scripts. When she walks into a clothing shop, for example, she pulls up a mental dialogue box: "No thanks, I'm just looking," is what one should say if a saleswoman offers help. But as Attwood points out, such playacting is not intuitive, and is therefore exhausting.


Also, when a stranger approaches her and asks, "How are you doing?" she replies with the generic answer of "I'm fine, how are you?" without evaluating whether her current condition really is fine nor whether she has any interest in the condition of the person approaching.

I think the people who diagnosed her are autistic.
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Woman exhibits absolutely no abnormal behavior, is diagnosed with Asperger's. by Zseni 02/01/2007, 6:17pm PST NEW
    Re: Woman exhibits absolutely no abnormal behavior, is diagnosed with Asperger's by Mischief Maker 02/01/2007, 6:41pm PST NEW
    Okay hm. NT by Jhoh Cable o_O 02/02/2007, 6:17am PST NEW
    Man this article pisses me off. by Zseni 02/02/2007, 9:38am PST NEW
    if we didn't have fuzzy, questionairre requirements for disorders, how would I NT by get my ritilin to sniff? 02/04/2007, 3:36pm PST NEW
 
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