Nah... Just Different

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The biting and the stalking... Yes.

And I suspect I may be a touch dyslexic because of the whole being unable to tie bows (and shoe laces) till I was in my teens (I blamed being somewhat ambidextrous, I had to train myself not to pass a racquet from one hand to the other and actually play a backhand shot). There's also a younger cousin who was diagnosed - too late to really help with her education.

(The idea of the Cho! seeing letters like d and b as being the same... yeah, I made my smart fluffy aliens pattern-recognising and dyslexic -- and had them doing online tests)

(One of the links from the quiz seems untrustworthy and appears to have decided Aspergers is *the* fashionable condition to have this millenium, possibly even an evolutionary step forward)

(*reads on* Okay, yes, I have done things like note down the performance of the contestants in The Crystal Maze for a couple of series... but that was because I wanted to see if the graduates and mensa members were actually better at the game. Nothing like train-spotting)

(And having read some of the wiki link about Aspergers... I could really ace the test now)

Why am I pretty sure I'm not an Aspie? Because for all the problems I have in communicating with people, and shaping my writing and stories so readers get something out of them... I write. I want to share my ideas, I want to make people feel... and I was telling stories (and writing poetry) back before I could tie bows.



If I add an anthropologist to this story it will get longer... Or possibly acquire a sequel in which the anthropologist gets murdered. Really. I've barely met him and I want to murder him.

I have not worked out the whole plot, or the plot holes, but it's demanded first person, and wants to be a detective story... one arc about hunting a serial killer, the other cracking a medical/biological mystery, plus the third arc dealing with Alec's personal life and linking the first two a little more firmly. And I'm pretty sure it needs careful working out, yet it resists being outlined in favour of throwing me anthropologists.

[And I'm not sure if Micah actually believes he can tell if someone's lying by grasping their family jewels, or just that people are less likely to lie if they believe that, should they lie to him, he'll know... and be grasping their family jewels. It is a bad sign when supporting characters amuse me this much]