Fujicrow, "autism" is not one clearly definable "disorder", the autistic spectrum goes all the way from your stereotypical low functioning kanner-type autistic, who is incapable of caring for themselves, right the way through to Asperger's syndrome, in varying degrees of..whats the word...obviousness, to those people who for all intents and purposes, might as well be, and pass for, neurotypical, but who have a few slight autistic spectrum traits.
Telling people "you aren't autistic because you were able to type this post", is a good way to invalidate someones situation to them, who may well have low self confidence, and I can tell you, from experience, being AS myself, that there are very many of us able to communicate just fine, and, for that matter, there are a few other aspies seemingly coming out of the woodwork here just of late.
Forget what you think you know, forget what you saw in "rain man", and do some research, before you judge someone, without having the background to do so.
As for MDMA, personally, one of the major ways in which my AS shows, is a near lack of emotion, and reliance on logic, in my own case, I have little emotion of my own at all, but as a result of that, when I know people, I can very often read them like a book, as my own emotions lacking, do not get in the way, and no longer act as a filter, or "background noise" so to speak, so in a way, I feel emotion through others.
How ironic, an autistic empath, of sorts anyways.
I'm not too much experienced with MDMA, but the times I have taken it, I found very significant improvement in my emotional state, and ability to feel emotions
of my own, instead of merely being stuck with analysing other people's, I do find though, that the comedown, is particularly harsh, compared to what many of the NTs I know seem to experience, and I won't take it without benzos/phenobarb to put me out for the next few days, but by no means would I apply that to everybody, because I am very sensitive to any sort of stimulant, and seemingly, metabolise them quite slowly (last time I took MDMA, granted a large dose, but I was very much under the effects for around 3-4 days)
Feel free to add me on MSN (its in my Bl profile), or PM me about it, and I'l share what I know through my own experience.
BristolRob, sounds like you have read the textbooks, but have never talked to or got to know any high-functioning autistics, we aren't dumb automatons, and we do have feelings, and to say we don't care what others think, is not only incorrect, but downright offensive.
