can an aspie live without the internt (or information?)

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I'm totally not into that facebook, whatsapp whatever thing. I don't even take my cellphone with myself when I go out and have no data plan. but I couldn't live without information, which happens to come through internet! I was talking to my sister yesterday and she said she is bored and she couldn't quite explain and at the end I ended up looking up boredom on wikipedia! I mainly read on science and stuff for no reason but reading on psychology, psychiatry and asperger's have saved my life! without internet I would be still be taking 30mg of zyprexa and sleeping 14 hours a day and be in a vegetative state. (the judges are still out there as I stopped the Zyprexa cold turkey 1.5 weeks ago but I feel great. I feel super Aspie with rocking and all but at least I feel like I am actually a person with personality and interests and I actually do stuff instead of literally watching the walls all day. ok I'm rambling)

The thing is, I believe Asperger's - intenet = boredom due to lack of vast amount of vital information for the aspie brain and life = hell.

I love the internet, and you can find very interesting things on the net. some things i want to know desperately and have no one to ask, because i have no friends. i'm one of those friendless aspies. and when i want to know something, sometimes it gets stuck in my head and i cant think of anything else until i find what i want to know, and it makes me depressed and frustrated and angry and depressed and whatnot. and the only way i can put my mind at ease is to know, and that's only through the net.

and you can find other aspies on the net and make friends and get support. thank god for the net.

Aspies existed long before the internet. We used to get our information from these things called "books".

Yes, of course, we are able to live without the Internet----but, no, I wouldn't want to live, without information.

I don't think anyone can live without internet these days (unless you have never really used it much, like most old people).

Has anyone seen the South Park episode "Overlogging"? They're basically expressing what the world is becoming.

Aspies have done it, and I think I would like to heavily limit it for myself. I miss the days when there wasn't this emphasis on it like it there is now, and I lived up to my late teens without a computer (I didn't get on the Internet until about 2005.)

It is nice for Aspies, but there is a point where it starts to suck you in as well. I don't do as much 'outside' stuff as I used to, and I think that's a bad thing. It isolates and distracts, not really allowing people to connect with each other in a human way, nor does it allow a person to interact with nature, because that screen and it's info is like a siren call.

If I was on the Internet from a young age, I would never have been forced to interact with real people and learn the hard way their body language, I would still be 'underdeveloped' because the screen would be a comforting 'cocoon' that would be hard to draw away from.

Internet isn't good or bad, but it's become a draw for many people, with it's endless 'flow' of information and it's ersatz interactions through some type and a screen. I don't want to be that way, I like the Internet in some degree but I hate that it's taking up more of my free time then I want.

I'm sure I can live without the Web, but I don't want to have to. It does distract me from other stuff I probably ought to be doing more of, I find it hard to pull away from it, but basically I like the Web because it's so much quicker than finding and poring through tons of books.

I can't imagine anybody surviving long without any information. The information from facial expressions for example, is hard to live without, although as we're often unable to decode it, we have that problem anyway.

I think so. After all, not all Aspies have special interests that they have to find out everything about.

I don't tend to look up a lot of stuff about my interests online. I do sometimes, but for some reason it makes me nervous. My current special interest is with Wrong Planet and I do spend a lot of time (basically all my spare time) on it. It would be hard if I had to give it up. I'd probably be bored a lot.

I don't know a lot of times I get on the internet because I am bored or if I'm feeling crappy it can be a distraction from that...I don't really mind being without it if there's something else to do.

1. There are other sources of information besides the internet. Maybe autism is going up because in the past people had to learn to talk to people in order to acquire information.
2. Many autistic people pursue creative paths where you create your own information, or they might just daydream alot. Maybe that's why some people with autism are very good at math because it can be explored without any external reference.

I spent over half of my life where the only net around was the fishing variety. But now I don't think I could last long without internet. I worry about not spending enough time on things that aren't considered a general waste like my crafting or going for walks. But then again I worry when I spend a lot of time doing anything because if you like it then it must be very bad. I once read that everything that's enjoyable is nearly always immoral, illegal, or fattening.

I am a pre-internet Aspie.

We had these things called books. They were housed in a room or building that was referred to as a library. Sometimes we had to ask these things called "parents" or "teachers" or "librarians" for access to the books, or to discuss the information.

We also did this thing called "going out in the world and gathering data." If, for example, I wanted to know about edible plants, I bought a book and took it out into the woods. I brought plants home and asked my aunt or uncle to authenticate my identification.

An Aspie possess the most sophisticated information-gathering tools on the planet: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch, as well as a cerebral cortex developed enough to make the maximum usage out of them.

But I like the Internet. A lot. I've had lots of fun blasting off into cyberspace. I do rather wish it had been around when I was a lonely young Aspie in the woods with a book...