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time — even when I'm in parties. With that all said, the survival
techniques I've used to interact with people have gone a
long way over the years. In most normal social situations, for
example, I simply don't know what to do other than ask questions.
But this survival tactic has caused me to develop such
a strong talent in asking questions that I've asked more questions
than anyone else on Quora and on many other forums.
I'm also known for my questions in Academia too (especially
in academic conferences) — I guess all the practice in asking
questions has gotten to the point that I my questions made
a sufficiently strong impression on a number of professors,
and that skill did make me win a top student fellowship at a
certain university.
nonetheless, we can often only rely on unnatural ways
of getting information (especially the type of "hidden" social
information that you can't get from reading a book or website),
and some neurotypicals object to the covert ways that
we sometimes use to get that information. nothing gets me
angrier at humanity than the objections they use against how
we try to obtain that hidden social information, but *shrug* I
guess it's part of life.
The other thing is that it's often profoundly isolating to
realize that almost no one in the world is going to fully appreciate
the obsession that you have with your particular set of
interests (and with the particular details about your interests,
too). no — not even people in Academia (nor other Aspies for
that matter) will appreciate the particular ways that you're
obsessed with your interests. And the truth is that us Aspies
also probably aren't ever going to be able to appreciate the interests
of neurotypicals in the ways they carry out their interests.
So the end result is that many of us prefer doing things
by ourselves. Unless we're playing multiplayer computer
games. oftentimes, people in computer games (like Starcraft
II) actually appreciate the fine details of things in Aspie-like
detail. This definitely happened when I played Age of empires
II, although I ultimately suck at multiplayer games so I
quit competitive multiplayer. With that all said, the Internet
allows us to broadcast the details of our interests that we're
most obsessed with, and we can *at least* theorize of the theoretical
possibility that there might be someone out there who
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