Klockan3 said:
Yeah, I get that vibe. You can imagine the person demonstrating gym equipment or something like that if you have a hard time removing the distraction of them having strange interests. But it is still just a few videos, it isn't like it is easy to see who has it even when you meet them face to face. Is there a special reason why you are asking, do you know that guy?
Exactly. I know him. He came walking into a coffeehouse where I hang out one evening holding one of his geometric paper things, so he caught my eye.
I noticed two things about him: the thing he was holding, and an oddness about his posture: he seemed very self conscious, not comfortable in his own skin, so to speak. Taken together, I got an Asperger's "vibe", as you put it. He came in a few days in a row, always alone, always holding one of his paper things.
Had I seen him without the paper thing I would merely have thought, "Wow, self conscious guy." Had I seen him with the paper thing but with good, confident body language, I would have supposed he was some sort of artist. Taken together, though, the first thing that popped into my mind the first time I saw him was "Asperger's."
Long story short: I eventually talked to him. Correction: I started talking to him, then got my ear talked off about geometric paper shapes: a long, uninterruptable lecture. I was now certain he had Asperger's. Wedging a word in edgewise, I derailed his lecture and asked him what he did for a living. He allowed he didn't work, that he was receiving disability for a condition called "Asperger's Syndrome". He started to explain how it was a mild form of autism, etc, but I told him I was familiar with it.
So, the geometric shapes guy
does have Asperger's. My point is that demonstrating a "strange interest" (which really needs to be defined more rigorously to be useful) should
contribute to a suspicion of that, not be dismissed from the equation. His many videos are the YouTube equivalent of walking around in public holding one of them.
The fact you wanted to look at his mannerisms and body language tells me you know what you're talking about. You've clearly met Aspies in person.
What I don't get is why you haven't noticed how subtly strange the first guy is. This is clearest in the feather duster review. Watch it again paying special attention to his eyes. He is constantly averting his glance upward in a peculiar way. Additionally, whenever he is mentioning a price, there is some unusual effort he has to go through to remember it. It's as if he is consciously accessing a mnemonic to remember it. Also, when he runs after the frisbee in the tron video, we see he's not physically graceful. He runs after it a bit too quickly for such an enclosed space, like a giddy kid.
I'm not diagnosing him, just defending the suggestion that he
might have Asperger's. I don't think it was as off the wall a suggestion as you seem to. It was based on more than the apparent oddness of his interest in making his own product reviews, but that interest was a definite contributor to the notion. The possibility remains he might be more or less normal, but with a weird and subtle sense of humor, like, say, Andy Kaufman. I think that's why the OP is so intrigued: you can't tell which.
