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MagicMike
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27 Sep 2006, 5:17 pm

Hmm...if you're really serious about trying to organize a seperate nation, maybe you should actually organize a physical group of revolutionaries rather than posting in all-caps on a forum that anybody (including FBI snoops) can eavesdrop on?



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27 Sep 2006, 5:49 pm

I'm already contemplating suicide as it is, please just everyone leave me the f**k alone.



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27 Sep 2006, 6:16 pm

I agree that there are problems that come about when people are used to interacting with NTs, and then try to apply those rules to other autistic people.

Actually, though, I have met a lot of autistic people, and what I've seen... is the potential for a lot of better communication and better relationships. But there's also the potential for a whole lot of other things.

I live in a building with (coincidentally in two, deliberately in one) three other auties. I am good friends with one and very glad to live near her. Another one, I just don't have a lot in common with. Another one, is overloading to me (but not particularly annoying, just very exhausting and very words-words-words in communication style).

Among auties I get along with some, don't get along with others. There is definitely a potential for good stuff -- very good stuff, I think all autistic people need at least exposure to other autsitic people -- but autistic people are also prone to most the screwed-up stuff non-autistic people are prone to and some other screwed-up stuff of our own and that stuff happens as well.

I like the idea of having a lot of exposure to autistic people, I don't know that I'd live in an all-autistic town or island. The lot of exposure, means more chance of meeting some of the ones I really click with, but of course clicking like that is not going to happen with everyone.


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27 Sep 2006, 9:15 pm

snake321 wrote:
I'm already contemplating suicide as it is, please just everyone leave me the f*** alone.


Relax man; nobody wants you to kill yourself, we’re simply having a friendly debate. Not all of these posts are even directed at you, just at the ideas that you brought up and the future possibilities of these ideas.



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27 Sep 2006, 11:30 pm

I still think we should save up and buy the Moon once they invent public Space Travel...


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27 Sep 2006, 11:34 pm

Hey your threads provoke alot of thought Snake123. Keep posting and do not take every
thing personal. I mean your ideas maybe attacked but no one is attacking you.



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27 Sep 2006, 11:47 pm

It's a bold plan and not for everyone. I don't think NT's will be accepting us anytime soon. It would spoil there fun. Look at all the fun they have tormenting and harrassing autistic people in the school system. They start screwing with your head as soon as you start school. They destroy your self-esteem and make you feel like a loser. Maybe if you are only a little aspie you can conform and pretend to be NT so they will accept you. But if you cannot or don't want to pretend to be like them they will ostricize, marginalize, bully, criticize you until you are so depressed you want commit suicide.
Yeah i know not all NT's are mean. But even the nice one's still think it's a shame your not an NT.


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27 Sep 2006, 11:56 pm

bizarre wrote:
They start screwing with your head as soon as you start school.
I don't think what happens in school represents the rest of life at all. From ages 13-17 everyone is a depressive and semi-sadistic s**t. It's got nothing to do with NT's v.s. Aspies, it's just people being mean to people in general. Aspies are just convenient targerts.

Four years after that starts, people grow up, the world moves on, and people are nice again. If they're not, it's either (A) because you're doing something nasty yourself, or (B) because you just aren't around the right people. Either way, there's no point whinging about the rest of the human race, when it's in your power to improve your life yourself.



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28 Sep 2006, 12:29 am

I'm going on-line and trying to find self help strategies because I don't trust clinics. But I'll do that tommarrow I need to get to bed. I have work tommarrow morning.



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28 Sep 2006, 12:59 am

See you tommarrow!

Sorry...


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28 Sep 2006, 1:56 am

Don't let Mnemosyne move to the island. I read a story where a woman moved to an island to live with just her cats. They reproduced faster than she could order food to be delivered and they eventually devoured her. Mnemosyne might have lots of baby cats that will grow up and do the same to us.
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28 Sep 2006, 9:53 am

Maybe it is in my power to improve myself, I don't know.

It hurts like hell when I try to cut my skull open, and I still haven't figured out how to change the wiring in my brain around.


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28 Sep 2006, 2:19 pm

I disagree.

Sometimes I enjoy being different. If I would live only with aspies, my life would have turned a little boring.

I enjoy when I fight against NT's ignorant commentaries.

I think if we make this, the problem will get worse



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28 Sep 2006, 2:40 pm

snake, buying an island or a piece of land to build a self-sustaining community is very unlikely.

Maybe considering something more realistic and attainable might be better, like autistic "vacations" or something, kind of like Autreat does. Something where autistic people can come together, but where they're not just stuck there having to learn how to survive in the wild, grow crops, etc.

It wouldn't be an "island", but it would be something. A realistic and possibly attainable something.


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28 Sep 2006, 3:45 pm

In theory, this would be a brillant idea.
It may work in practice but what do I do? I'm a minor.