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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive To Elizabeth - more on Fives and the AS/HFA spectrumPosted by pork ^(oo)^ on June 17, 2001 at 02:06:07: I am not a psychologist. I have never encountered anyone who was verified, at least to my knowledge, to be afflicted with the disorder. The most I can say is that I have the following averments on "authority," and that I have not taken speculative license with their conclusions. Anyway.... An axiom of the condition of Asperger's Syndrome is a deficiency in the ability to think abstractly and divergently; affected persons have difficulty grasping even the simplest general concepts (commerce, morality, spirituality, most "isms" - all ABSTRACT concepts), and engaging in even the simplest multiple thought processes simultaneously (i.e., talking, driving, and listening to music at once). These "Aspergic" persons (as you call them - I've never heard the term, though I think it's quite funny) usually have a significant deficiency in the ability to understand humor, irony, double entrendes, metaphors, symbols, and the expressive, poetic, rhetorical, and otherwise non-technical aspects of language. Furthermore, they display an obvious dearth of basic common sense. They have unusual difficulty comprehending facial expressions and other forms of nonverbal language; the concept of deceit is usually lost upon them. They are extremely naive and often over-trusting, and thus fooled as easily as children prior to the age of reasoning. Go over what I said critically. Does that really sound like type Five, even within the entranced levels? Does it really appear to fit the list of "Aspergic" celebrities you offered? oink ^(oo)^
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