I've even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi.

Reg likes to tease me about how much I identify with Sherlock Holmes. There's a few reasons for that.

I've had good friends get creeped out when I've reminded them of specific words they said on a specific date, so don't ask how frightened bloggers can get when you tell them that three years ago you stayed up late and read their entire archive, then quote lines they wrote back to them. (And then, there's being on the other side, knowing you had a whole thread with the other person a few years ago, and they have absolutely no memory of it at all. Because with normal people, internet things don't click for them as real.)

Half the male friends I have are more "emotionally intelligent" than I am, and the other half are so "non-neurotypical" that they seem like aliens to me. The latter make me look/feel "normal" by comparison, and my emotional intelligence isn't really that poor, it's just not quite as immediately accessible as the rest of my brain. Apparently it's a lot more obvious to these high EQ men than to me, although since I am fairly high-functional and cry when I get my period, they just joke that I'm a sociopath. (One of those "ha ha, only serious" things.)

Also, there's like moments on the show where Sherlock appears to read perfect strangers far more accurately than his "inner circle" and boy can I relate to that. (Not that I can't read my friends, it's just that the processing circuit tends to be powered down around friends vs. strangers. This is why some introverts like this one get really tired and anxious at parties where they don't know anyone, and then contrariwise feel quite happy and empowered at small gatherings where they know everyone well. This is also partly why I like concerts better than say house parties. When there's no actual expectation of social interaction, it's not very draining.)