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[Honestly don't know if this thread is allowed, but here goes. Reply at risk of deletion.]

I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes. There was a thread about him. Conclusion or I don't know how I should call it without causing anxiety, majority view (maybe) was that he could have Asperger's disorder/syndrome (ASD) or a psychotic disorder.

Both is possible (fictional character). I personally don't think ASD can co-exist with psychotic disorders, but that they are diametrically opposed syndromes.

I was thinking about one important trait (is that word allowed?) of Sherlock Holmes: his eye for detail.

I am really bad at details: I am very good at seeing there is something off, not quite right, that something has changed, but I have no idea what.

Same with writing/spelling: I am dyslexic.

Can anyone relate? Take for example lipstick or maybe new glasses someone has on.

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yeah

i thik im really smart!

some of the often i get bogged down with irrelevancies, but ultimately those "irrelevancies" allow me to broaden my scope

all at the risk of coming off over-analytical and all powerful

so i keep to myself.

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I don't so much take notice to peoples appearances, but more so their movement, word choice and such.

I am more the sherlock of conversation and body language than of crime scene investigation. But i'm sure i'd be fine at that as well..

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i swear!!

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They funny thing is, most often people inflate their self. I tend to do the opposite. When it seems as though i brag, i am actually just being frank.

So let's have a talk!

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right now, i see people reading this with Cheeto covered fingers thinking what an arrogant and deluded little boy i am.

and they..

would be correct

congrats Cheeto fingers!

Your prize is getting to speak your mind to me with no bite back on my part.

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Originally Posted by hahayeahtotallylol

right now, i see people reading this with Cheeto covered fingers thinking what an arrogant and deluded little boy i am.

and they..

would be correct

congrats Cheeto fingers!

Your prize is getting to speak your mind to me with no bite back on my part.

we are who we are ... the good , the bad and the ugly ... just be true to yourself ... I never have been but want to ... Tigger ...

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I didn't mean to come off as judging you through the computer screen in which we communicate...

Sometimes i just picture people like my parents on the other end of the screen. Scrutinizing every fault of he whom they watch on their Television, meanwhile sitting back with a full tummy farting out their indulgences.

But internet dwellers come from all walks! Right?

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I am also better with body language, word choice, anything that pervades and influences all details taken together, as a Gestalt, and (indeed) focusing on any detail, just what is being said at any one time, is more or less difficult (not so much when manic, but definitely when manic).

So basically, being sometimes distracted by pervading expressions of emotion and thought.

And when manic, seeing those expressions as being meaningful as if they were mine, which is a recipe for interpretation disaster.

All pretty much subconscious with regard to the "parsing"/parsing and most of the interpreting.

A maybe somewhat (but not really very much) related thing is what they call microexpressions.

But verbal/regular natural language is a lot more similar/related (as I see it).

But isolating details is very difficult for me: it's easier for me to use the emotional/subconscious expressions or microexpressions of others as a mirror than to use an actual mirror.

Any similar experiences?

Edit:
Basically, are you more of a conscious detail-integrator or (too) subconscious/automatic? Or do you do one after the other: experiencing something off/meaningful and being able to figure out what it is?

The last possibility would be reasoning backwards (maybe abductive reasoning or "deduction").

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I think the latter. I tend to be one with the ebb and flow as opposed to getting hung up.

Though confusing highly emotional situations can get me hung up at times