Friday 24 June 2005

Super-Empaths

It seems fairly well accepted that Geek is somewhere on the autistic spectrum - about at the point where "neurotypical" shades into "autistic". Asperger theorised that the autistic spectrum stretched from the deeply affected at one end, through "eccentric normality" right up to everyone currently declared to be normal.

It can't be a new idea, but I think it could stretch further than that - out the other end and into a whole new range of diagnoses. At this end of the spectrum I'd expect to find unusually empathic people and those who read body language very easily. It would stretch all the way up to people who intuitively read your subtext and non-verbal cues so well that they appear to be practically psychic.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I am most definitely towards the Geek end.
PPS - I think so-called medium John Edwards is up the other end.

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