sinsboldly wrote:
Joshandspot wrote:
now that i think about it that was a horrible question...i've been asking alot of whys as to autism and trying to convince myself there are positives in it but when someone throws a short end of the stick comment (therefore saying our lives are less than the majority of the population) it gets me angry and i feel the need to run onto wrongplanet and somehow have people convince me this isnt true...even tho if i truly was confident in myself and that autism has its positive aspects, i wouldn't need other people to convince me of it. But than again i'm sure there are people who seemingly have everything who feel they need convincing of their lives being of worth...
geeze, some people have war in their countries. Some kids don't get enough to eat and their short and suffering lives are crippled by rickets and ravaged by disease. Some mothers have no milk to feed their babies and live in refugee camps that get raided by people bent on rape, pillage and genocide.
I, however, am Autistic in a first world country. I wouldn't want to trade places, would you?
I agree that there are other people in the world who have it worse, but that doesn't mean that a person doesn't struggle in different ways. Of course most people would rather not trade places with them - war, famine, homelessness...it doesn't appeal to anyone. Just because someone says that they feel like they got the 'short end of the stick' with autism or aspergers it doesn't mean they don't appreciate that there are other people out there who are living in much harder conditions.
Anyway, rant aside...
I don't think I got the short end. Yes, I may have been born with AS but all of my problems up until this day I've caused on my own, and it had nothing to do with AS. I don't have any friends but that's probably my fault for not going out and meeting anyone.
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