Normal Versus Nerd, Aspergers Personality

This is a Normal healthy personality. When you first meet someone you check out the safety in circumstances, potential obstacles, and if they are safe or not. If we think of our brain as a boat sailing through a changing environment from calm to a storm we can picture what’s going on.

Ant and Bee look at the facts in situations, Macho searches for any dangers, Cuddles looks for the positive loving opportunities, Geru adds any wisdom and decides what to do next, Turtle patiently calms her, and Rabbit will cary out the actions, even if only to talk.

The Lower Nature, lie a subconscious submarine is always looking for familiar dangers, and if found will step in and even take over if needed to survive. But Consciousness ignores the Lower Nature if convinced all is safe.

If all is safe you proceed by saying hi, my name is….what is yours. From there you gather more information, as they do also, and slowly explore the future opportunities with them now and in the future. 

If both parties are mentally and emotionally healthy and normal they will explore each others strengths and weaknesses and create a relationship that looks like a normal person and increase or decrease their widgets strengths to compensate for and accommodate each other and to balance out.

But if they are not healthy, if they have personality disorders, that is their widgets do not always want to compromise or help the other person’s widgets but will take advantage of their weakness to gain their own self satisfactions, they will act to feel better about themselves at the expense of the other. 

Grandma and Grandpa, normal and Aspergers or Nurd

The first example is Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma has a personality within normalcy’s shown above. Ant and Bee look at the facts in situations, Macho searches for any dangers, Cuddles looks for the positive loving opportunities, Geru adds any wisdom and decides what to do next, Turtle patiently calms her, and Rabbit will cary out the actions, even if only to talk.

The Lower Nature is always looking for familiar dangers, and if found will step in and even take over if needed to survive. But Consciousness ignores the Lower Nature if convinced all is safe.

But Grandpa has a bit of an Aspergers Personality or a Nurd, they have problems showing their emotions.  Grandpa’s Ant and Bee are larger than normal and so he see’s more details and patterns, but Spiedie is large also so he may deceive like not tell everything, and because Macho is large he is paranoid so he may deceive his real feelings and thought to feel save from those that he does not understand. Crow is free to make up alternate realities, sci-fi is a popular one, extreme conservative life styles can be another if Rabbit is small.  Cuddles is normal but put down by paranoia and so Raccoon is larger and selfish and so he has a stubborn streak, can be oppositional. Grandpa has a larger patient Turtle and a smaller Rabbit then shown above so he an be passive aggressive when Coyote get stronger if paranoia is present. Grandpa has a larger Lower Nature then most as he was bullied as a child.

Normal Versus Aspergers/Nurd

Mother Nature has changed genetic Upper Nature’s widgets to fit ancient history changes. Nurds may have been those who lived in the ice ages. They did not have to deal with a lot of people so explicit communication was not necessary. We all have a few of those genes. But most people have more gregarious genes that have more ability to live with large groups of people. So the widgets had to genetically grow to gain more insights into one’s self and others and communicate with a fluid agility not needed for those who did not have genetic drift in more space and isolated areas.

Paranoia has set in as Grandpa finds it hard to understand what others want if they are different from him. So Grandma has learned to be more bossy with him to get his compliance.

As you can see Grandma is approaching Grandpa in a normal way but is being very firm. So how does Grandpa react?

All his widgets but his basic ones, Ant, Bee and Turtle shrink, but Macho grows allowing Dragon and his gang to  and their submarine that was below consciousness to surface large enough to control. Grandma must act swiftly to get him back under control.

Grandpa may be paranoid about Grandma but he is more paranoid about living in a world of strangers and trying to meet his needs alone. He may end up homeless. So his Consciousness tells his Lower Nature to settle down and hisUpper Nature to shape up and Lower Nature to shape up and listen to Grandma’s requests.

Difference between Nurd, Aspergers, Schizoid, Schizotypal, and Schizophrenia

Nurd a laymen term that covers all the above as is the term Schizy. You could look at them as a spectrum from Nurd being mild symptoms similar to Schizophrenia and Schizy as being closer to Schizophrenia.

The symptoms are odd or ecentric behaviors, perhaps due to paranoia, not wanting or unable to make close relationships, loving solitary activities, liking fantasy. There is no such thing as a disorder that symptom do not vary greatly from person to person.

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder where a person at times looses touch with reality. Aspergers is high functioning Autism. Schizoid tends to have more bizarre behaviors than the terms preceding it above. Schizotypal is getting closer to Schizophrenia symptoms but is not the same. The first four terms are not in the Schizophrenia arena, they just share some of the same symptoms, but not loss of reality.