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What is Marigold's fundamental character?
Is it cold in here?:
Marigirl doesn't act like a borderline.
jwhouk:
You're right. More Aspergers-like.
Carl-E:
I have to disagree with Asperger's (no b, by the way). She's horrilbly introverted and inexperienced socially, but she's able to deal socially with people - not well, and she panics, but she can attend a party and participate in normal social interaction.
Both my nephews are autistic, one severely, the other at the Asperger's end of things. I've also had a few students afflicted with Asperger's. There are behaviours that Marigold just doesn't have, in particular the lack of eye contact and the repetitive social formality (one of my students wasn't comfortable unless he shook your hand at least twice every conversation). Also, Asperger's sufferers are usually not introverted; they're bad at it, but they continuously seek out social interaction, often to the point of annoyance.
Really, Mari's just a geek.
Is it cold in here?:
Well, her habit of putting dangerous snakes in the meat grinder and forming the meat into patties is enough of a mental problem to be called asp burgers syndrome.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 17 Oct 2010, 20:31 ---<snip>
Really, Mari's just a geek.
--- End quote ---
...I thought that's what Asperger's Syndrome WAS. "Being a geek."
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