
| Gittonsxv #341105 11 months ago |
who.....is that in the apples? and ..... what, ok then |
| Random-Chaos #341109 11 months ago |
Dud I have that. |
| Anonymous #341114 11 months ago |
Yeah...not exactly. |
| dragonSpike #341116 11 months ago |
The general results of aspergers tends to be somebody who's intelligent but immature. As a result, they have trouble showing their intelligence, most of the time. |
| Anonymous #341122 11 months ago |
Haha...
But why doesn't Twilight know what Aspergers is? |
| Roboshi #341153 11 months ago |
Twilight most likely has self Autism, usually characterised with high intelligence but poor social skills. |
| coyotecrow4 #341154 11 months ago |
@dragonSpike. Yes and no. It's a high functioning form of Autism. It's a case-to-case basis of course, but many are a tad anti-social, or have synesthesia, which is kinda like your 5 senses getting their wires crossed. Certain stimuli trigger things like seeing colors or hearing music no one else can. Also, thought patterns tend to be different than others, intellegent, but on a different track than most. At least, those are the categories I fit into. |
| Wrongness #341155 11 months ago |
Why does that thing have giant sprinkles for hair? |
| Florentine #341178 11 months ago |
Ugh.. "comment contains banned terms". Since I've no way of finding out what those banned terms are, let's try a more limited version:
@dragonSpike It's a great deal more complex than that. As a mild-moderate case myself, and having lived with similarly afflicted people for several years, it's more like 'intelligent but socially inept'. That being said I'd sooner just call it chronic bloody-mindedness, given my own experiences. On another note: I would very much like to know what inspired this o.o |
| Wrongness #341191 11 months ago |
We have banned terms? |
| Florentine #341195 11 months ago |
And to be perfectly honest I would never say Twilight was an Asp'y, she's just bookish. There's a pretty massive difference between that and having an autistic spectrum disorder. |
| Florentine #341199 11 months ago |
@Wrongness
According to the error I just got, yeah o.o Goodness knows what they are, though, it's not as if my comment was full of profanity or something. |
| Wrongness #341220 11 months ago |
Weirdness. Now I am curious. |
| Anonymous #341249 11 months ago |
You could make so many balloon animals out of that mane. |
| Questionmarktarius #341318 11 months ago |
No, Pinkie just has a raging cocaine problem. |
| Anonymous #341518 11 months ago |
I got aspergers fo real |
| Anonymous #341563 11 months ago |
People with Aspergers also have a terrible time accepting any form of change. It generally causes them to become very irritable and somewhat hostile. *Probably has Aspergers* |
| Huacaya #342232 11 months ago |
Am I the only person who thinks we are blatantly over diagnosing mental disorders? |
| Monkey_Zombie #342361 11 months ago |
Aspergers is a social development disorder. I have it and for me it makes it very hard to explain concepts, thoughts and feelings. I'm also terrible at reading non-verbal cues. |
| Florentine #342487 11 months ago |
@Huacaya
Not at all. As I said above, 'There's a pretty massive difference between [Twilight being bookish] and having an autistic spectrum disorder.' I find it kinda sad when people feel the need to apply disorders to everyone and everything. Besides, there's a fairly respected school of thought that /EVERYONE/ has Aspergers to some varying degree. That's kinda the reason it's likely to get removed as a definition and just replaced with 'high functioning autism'. It's far too easy to make it fit anyone you like. |
| Anonymous #342838 11 months ago |
Aspys be a diverse group indeed.
I can't do social stuff, but have buckets of confidence on stage. (I think it's the escapism of being someone I'm not. Also Aspys generally don’t like eye-contact. |
| Anonymous #344290 11 months ago |
^ this. This was the big turning point when I realized I have NVLD and not aspergers. |
| Lucian #346701 11 months ago |
I don't do eye contact unless I have to. Which means most of the time, thanks to a mother was never taught to cope with her "different" child. |
| DNCSquared #353445 11 months ago |
I have Aspergers and I USED to act hostile, but after awhile, I'm pretty much like the average person...Except with an IQ of 153. |
| Anonymous #363020 11 months ago |
Trying to diagnose fictional characters is fun, and some characters honestly have certain disorders.
We just don't see enough of the ponies to diagnose the ponies. Party of one showed Pinky to have symptoms that clearly do not fit asperger's syndrome, like hearing voices that are not there. It is likely Pinky is self medicating, hence the sugar, caffeine, and parties to try to make the voices go away. If any pony has asperger's syndrome it is Twilight Sparkle. Most humans who have asperger's syndrome behave very similarly to her, and you would not know they had the condition unless you spent a lot of time with them. Aspies are more or less the stereotypical nerds who would rather have their noses in books rather then go out partying. It's rare for the character to have been purposely written to have a specific disorder, but some traits are very common to certain people with "disorders" that those who know what to look for see the diagnosis. Fluttershy shows signs of abuse, hence the shyness. |
| Anonymous #380274 11 months ago |
I don't know why people keep saying Twilight has asperger's. She clearly lacks many of the symptoms.
I have it myself and I can tell you that many people have no clue what the reality of it is. On that note, #363020... don't talk about what you don't understand. |
| Anonymous #824876 6 months ago |
Well, Twilight, it means that she has a self-diagnosed fictional mental condition which is contracted from reading the Wikipedia article. It essentially means that she is smarter and more gifted than everypony else, and it completely excuses all the lazy and anti-social choices she has and ever will make in life.
On another note, if Pinkie-Pie reads Wikipedia, then it means she has Internet. That means she has also likely seen Goatse, has visited Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4Chan, and also probably has a folder stored deep in the windows directory of her laptop filled with naked plot-shots of sexy ponies. Just so you know. |
| Anonymous #1331666 2 months ago |
Twilight Sparkle does not have aspergers. She is a gifted unicorn. Being a gifted person myself, I have the same problems and meltdowns like twilight, but I am not autistic.
Aspergers is so highly misdiagnosed that gifted people who appear autistic are deemed cured but it really is not the case... Autism has more permanence. Twilight has great social skills. |