Help me with my learnings!

[ishyface]

Questions for... well, everyone, I guess:

1) How big is the gap between Asperger's Syndrome and high-functioning autism? (From what I understand the two overlap a lot. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

2) What is the Baptist Church's official stance re:stigmata? (Any info about the Baptist Church would be useful, actually- I know very little about it.)

3) What does it feel like to have a nosebleed? (I've never had one.)

4) How do you know when "coffee" is not just coffee but coffee? (Because I just made plans to go for coffee with a friend, but I think said friend may be under the impression that these plans are for coffee instead of coffee. And, um, that could be problematic!)

5) How much does Thomas Hobbes suck? (Like, a lot, right?)

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ETA: From the essay I am currently writing on Hobbes' theory of the state of nature:

"Hobbes would have us believe that people tend not to murder their children because of the power of law and the state, but this is nonsense: anyone who has ever been in the same room with a fussy baby for more than ten minutes is sure to wonder why its parents do not simply drop it into the nearest lake and tell the authorities that dingoes ate it."

I don't even care if I am grossly misrepresenting Hobbes here,* I am not cutting that sentence.

* I am, but only because I don't like him.

Comments

[iamthelolrus.livejournal.com]

1) They really are basically the same, because neither one is very well defined. I think it's mostly how high functioning somebody is? But as far as I know nobody really bothers with something like that...it's usually called autism and left at that. Maybe tonight when my mom's home I can ask her more...she's done a lot of research on it. I have a nephew who has high-functioning autism...which is what I think it's officially called, and he's in an autism support class. (And he gets to go swimming, which is his favourite thing ever, so he's very excited about this class. :3) But my mom said he basically has Asperger's? IDK. Also I think Asperger's can go even farther into high functioning...like if you are high functioning Asperger's you may never even realize you're anything more than a little weird? Cause my mom thinks I may have it, even.

Lol sorry for the rant. XD

And!

3) Basically like a really runny nose. Or like water running out of your nose? Just really liquidy. And weird. But I've never thought it was that unpleasant...

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

1. That's really cute about your nephew. :) I think I've only met one autistic person in my life. He was, iirc, very high-functioning, but he was perceived by a lot of kids around him as weird and anti-social, which is basically the worst thing you can be in junior high, so he was kind of shunned. Some people have mentioned that they think I might have Asperger's, but I don't think I exhibit enough of the traits associated with it to be anywhere on the spectrum.

3. Like when you breathe underwater and it comes out your nose? Bizarre, man.

[bleedingcherub.livejournal.com]

"Some people have mentioned that they think I might have Asperger's, but I don't think I exhibit enough of the traits associated with it to be anywhere on the spectrum."

This seems like a good place to mention that I know 10-20 auties/aspies and like 5 of them have one day been like "youuuuuu're pretty autistic." So that's the POV I'm coming from.