azurelunatic | People need to meet each other.

ralmathon and

sithjawa should be introduced, just on principle.

ralmathon wants to make sure he doesn't have to beat the stuffing out of Figment.
Figment and

sithjawa could probably destroy the universe.

iroshi and Figment need to meet, just like

iroshi and Darkside need to meet.

ralmathon and

iroshi will get around to meeting sooner or later.
Dawn needs to meet Figment.
Figment needs to meet Darkside, lest the universe explode or implode. Or maybe that's if they meet, it will... ?

sithjawa and Darkside will probably want to talk campaign together.
Dawn and

sithjawa are actually in the same state, and would have met except things were on fire.

... and that's not even factoring in the fact that

amberfox and

shywickedpixie should probably do some meeting of people too.

Figment says that I need to make my friends wear name tags when I talk about them. I threatened to ask them to take pictures of their hairstyles so I could put little post-its with all the things on the pictures. (Figment displays more of the traits common to the autistic spectrum than I do, but less so than

iroshi; now that he's identified that he's somewhat face-blind and does tag people by not-face first, we joke about this a good deal.)

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Figment needs to meet Darkside, lest the universe explode or implode. Or maybe that's if they meet, it will... ?

I am fairly certain that the universe is safe either way. You, however, will implode if they do not meet within a reasonable frame of time. ^_^

Oddly enough, I have been deep enough inside your head that I don't feel a "need" to meet you, though we would certainly enjoy it. Through that, as well, I feel no need to meet Darkside...though again, we would both enjoy the time together (though he doesn't know it yet.)

Figment, however...I warn you now, dearheart, that I shall make him uncomfortable. Do not read this as "I intend to..." but simply a statement of what I know shall come to pass. He will be uncomfortable in my presence. Mormons do not like being around me, generally.

Ah, yes. Universe will do just fine, then, but the sooner they meet, the better. Figment may have some luck pursuading Darkside to start listening to himself, because life is too short to be unhappy.

I am curious as to why Mormons are edgy around you. Do you think it involves the religion of your childhood, and the fact that you've changed significantly enough so that you're no longer there?

No, no, it's *me*, and the deities whom I serve. They were edgy around me when I was an RLDS, as well. Around me more than they were around the other RLDS folks I was with when I went on the trip out to SLC.

Hm.

Since Figment's not edgy around me, and mine, he might have a better chance than most at not being edgy around you and yours. But that will remain to be seen.

I have nagged him about taking his Gmail invitation. I think I shall have to re-invite him.

propaganosia (face blindness) is an autism trait? Hmm...that's interesting. It also features highly in discalculia (math and visual based learning disorder) I spot people by voice and body language, sometimes by the way they smell (I know that sounds wierd, but with the bad vision I wound up with a sensitive nose)

I also read something earlier today about autism and multiplicity being linked...

wonder how much of all that is just the psych people don't have a freaking clue an are lumping stuff together again...sigh

I don't know if it's autism-in-general, or Asperger's in specific, but it's definitely an Asperger's trait, and one I have a serious problem with. I don't recognize people, even people I love. I've had to ask my husband if such-and-such person coming across the parking lot was our girlfriend or not. *sigh* I do generally start recognizing people eventually, of course...but then another fun little trait I have is a problem with labels, which of course includes people's names. So even if I recognize someone, I may or may not remember which name associates with them. *grin*

I recognize people by their hair, mostly, and secondarily by the type of clothes I expect them to wear, third by the combination of body language, voice, and facial expressions. Sometimes I can recognize energy signatures. But even if I know that the person in front of me is someone I know, and I recognize the person as being the-person-I-was-talking-with-on-X-day or the-person-who-does-such-and-such-for-a-living...I may still not remember the person's *name*, which many people think means I don't *recognize* them. *sigh* Stuck either way, lots of times. I just talk without names a lot to anybody, and if they know me, I just go on as if I know them and only admit I don't know their name if I'll need to contact them later. *shrug*

The smell doesn't sound weird to me; my husband has an extremely sensitive nose and has been known to freak people out by saying hello to them as they walk up behind them, because he can sometimes smell them and recognize their scent.

I've never seen anything about autism and multiplicity being linked. Could you perhaps reference where you saw that?

It does make it difficult to describe people to other people when your mental file of them is not listed under words that describe their appearance.

it was in the multiplicity comm, I don't know if you can see the post without joining but it's at

http://www.livejournal.com/community/multiplicity/228557.html?mode=reply

I think it's just a working theory for this person right now, but it's something I've wondered about a number of times myself.

Ooh, ooh, if we're going to do the "meeting people" thing, *I* want to meet, well, YOU obviously. :-)

And

iroshi and

amberfox, but I'm not sure if that's actually because I've got some genuine Need to meet them ,or if it's merely because they're close enough that it could happen without heroic efforts.

Obviously.

And I think that you meeting

amberfox would be much of the Interesting, whether there's Need or not.

People need to meet each other.

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