D&D 5E Aspurgers/autism effects?

[nevin]

It's just like any other person. Some you'll barely notice thier traits some will have very strong traits. Are all non Aspergers players fun at a table?

 

[nevin]

honestly I'll take your average Aspergers player over an OCD or control freak one any game.

 

[nevin]

I remember reading something once that said that the big difference between People High up the scale (sorry I forget the term) who generally end up being engineer/math/computer types and Aspergers was that the engineer type group tended to be viewed as jerks and people with Aspergers tended to be viewed as fun if a bit weird.

 

[Faolyn]

As someone with Asperger's, I often wonder how to play neurotypical people!

 

[nevin]

we are all a little crazy and think that we are perfectly sane.

 

[abe ray]

we are all a little crazy and think that we are perfectly sane.

The same could be said for everyone in a way.

 

[Seramus]

To them: I've said something rude or condescending, or perhaps the tone of my voice made me sound mad or like I'm implying something.

To me: People just randomly get mad and punish or ostracized you. You believe them because it happens so often it must be your fault. Sometimes they explain the reason why, and it makes sense on an intellectual level, but unless you monitor yourself like a hawk it happens again.

 

[nevin]

The same could be said for everyone in a way.

That was really my point.

 

[Faolyn]

To them: I've said something rude or condescending, or perhaps the tone of my voice made me sound mad or like I'm implying something.

To me: People just randomly get mad and punish or ostracized you. You believe them because it happens so often it must be your fault. Sometimes they explain the reason why, and it makes sense on an intellectual level, but unless you monitor yourself like a hawk it happens again.

Well, you just neatly summed up about two-thirds of my social anxiety and paranoia in one post.

 

[nevin]

yeah my wife is from a very quiet non confrontational family and it was a big adjustment for her to understand he was not going to ignore it when she contradicted her own rules or wanted to argue from an emotional place but didn't state her facts correctly. He is better as an adult but his internal volume monitor doesn't work well. he'll get really loud sometimes and people will think he's mad but it's just the more he get's into what he's talking about and the more engaged he gets the louder he gets.