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Yes, some of railfans are affected by Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted by tramrunner on Mon Dec 26 23:32:39 2005, in response to Re: Are railbuffs generally autistic?, posted by MCD4x4 on Mon Dec 26 21:55:55 2005. bi-weekly (every 2nd sunday) I work as a computer Literacy tutor, for mentaly retarted yong people. There are some people with Asperger's ... who realy love trains. They also remember their childhood day-by-day.Aspergers people have also hardship of passign Job Iinterview, and social behavior hardships. .................................................................. I DONT think that ALL railfans are Aspergers. Quiet Not! I know personally that some of my railfriend are APPARENTLY NOT aspergers. Living in x_USSR, before 1992 - no one knew what is that. There I was very healthy (as I am now) So healthy, that I was thinking of my school 99% of time. Yet, I was slightly autistic to say about my transit hobby. WHY? I was afraid that I will hear "DO YOUR HOMEWORK, Trains are for Motormen!" Yet, my parents would never do it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The reason why I interested in Board Numbers is stated here: http://www.dgmaestro.com/tram/OdessaT3/numberingHobby.htm HOwever, let me bring a live-example: I always paid attention to the sounds of pneumatic doors. Since 1985 most of the trams in my city (Odessa, Ukraine) were/are 100% electromechanic. SOme of the trolleybuses have pneumatic doors. ALl UMZ-1/2, and some ZIU-9. My attention to pneumatic doors strengthed my attention to number. I knew that all trolleybuses with numbers 686..699 and 855...867, 2001... and up are such! Buses: The door sounds of Ikarus, and LIAZ buses, running on CITY LINE was very usual for me. But on such buses as LAZ, Newer Ikarus, I traveled much rarely. THey were running along suburban lines, (where I spent my every summer) TIll now, I remember that the back door of a LAZ bus with 67-58oeg "plate number" sounded very unusual for me. The only time I rode it - was on Julne 21, 1990. While 54-23 sounded fine. LAZ buses came in two version. One with simply cushioned seats (they had pneumatic doors) Another: with reclinable seats, and MANUALLY operated door (right to driver) just one instead of two THeir faces were absolutely alike. So the number could the only clue. 25-30 was such. NO I was not afraid of Pneumatic doors. I just paid great attention to them. Another example: AC locos had pneumatic switches, DC locos did not. I came up with such a conclusions already in America, after seeng EuroRailFan.net.... (in 1998) WHY all the places where I heared pneumatic switch sounds, correspond to RRs electrified on AC. (Odessa, Kiev, .... ) where I did not hear such sound ... to DC (MOscow, St Petersburg, etc) |
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