Dave Plummer

It comes natural to most people.

It's just what they do.

And cool people do it really well.

But for somebody on the spectrum, you've got to fake it all.

Uh, yeah.

Acting normal.

There's a song by Rush, you know, the band?

Yes.

Uh, Limelight and it's written by Neil Peart.

And I, I only speculate about people who have passed on.

So I've got a sense he was probably on the spectrum.

Um, but the line is something like all the world's indeed a stage and we are merely players, performers and portrayers, each another's audience.

And he talks at length in the song about not being able to treat strangers as friends and being able to fake an affect and all that.

So it seems like he's struggling with masking a lot in the song and I have no idea, but that was what I took from it.

Generally, it's when you're emotionally overwhelmed to the point that you can't manage your behavior anymore.

And so you see it in the movie Rain Man when he's trying to get on the airplane and he's kind of forced and he starts losing it.

That's a meltdown.

Or I've seen it on, they did kind of a, actually probably the best portrayal I've seen in media is, what's the TV show where the doctor is autistic?

Anyway, there's a TV show where a doctor is autistic and he's a surgeon and he is eventually banned from surgery because of his autism and he's always wanted to be a surgeon and he has a complete meltdown and it's a pretty good portrayal on television, so.

So switch flips, you go kind of a primitive brain.