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28 May 2017, 9:30 pm

I'd choose to be an aspie with understanding parents. Parents will be more understanding by the time I'm put back on Earth.


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28 May 2017, 9:43 pm

I would give anything to be "normal".


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29 May 2017, 5:49 pm

I can't believe that anyone would choose to be autistic.
I'm just... 8O.


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29 May 2017, 7:18 pm

Raleigh wrote:
I can't believe that anyone would choose to be autistic.
I'm just... 8O.


Raleigh, but didn't you say that you're 99% happy with your life? Do you think the average NT person is 99% happy with their life? I don't. Don't get mad at me, but were you exaggerating when you said 99% happy, or did you just mean, 99% happy for an aspie?



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29 May 2017, 7:30 pm

I'm 99% happy with my life.
I fail to see what being an aspie or being NT has to do with that.
What do you think the difference is between them and me?


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29 May 2017, 7:55 pm

Of course I wouldn't choose to be born with Asperger's.

But now that I do have Asperger's, I don't feel the need to be cured either. Right now, I get the feeling of "being high functioning isn't so bad. I can handle this."

Maybe my answer will be different in a few years.


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29 May 2017, 8:21 pm

Raleigh wrote:
I'm 99% happy with my life.
I fail to see what being an aspie or being NT has to do with that.
What do you think the difference is between them and me?


The difference as far as I've experienced is that aspies or autistics in general have a far harder experience in life due to our differences. Since you're an aspie, my assumption would be that your brain interprets virtually everything in a fundamentally different way from NTs. As a species, we are fundamentally attached to the sociology of our respective cultures. The natural sociological reaction of an aspie is innately different from the nature reaction of a NT. This is what makes us "odd" to them, and in most human cultures, people don't like what they find to be "odd". They want similarity. I mean, you do know that having Aspergers and being socially ostracized and lonely are common problems for aspies right?



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29 May 2017, 8:54 pm

TheWalrys435 wrote:
Raleigh wrote:
I'm 99% happy with my life.
I fail to see what being an aspie or being NT has to do with that.
What do you think the difference is between them and me?


The difference as far as I've experienced is that aspies or autistics in general have a far harder experience in life due to our differences. Since you're an aspie, my assumption would be that your brain interprets virtually everything in a fundamentally different way from NTs. As a species, we are fundamentally attached to the sociology of our respective cultures. The natural sociological reaction of an aspie is innately different from the nature reaction of a NT. This is what makes us "odd" to them, and in most human cultures, people don't like what they find to be "odd". They want similarity. I mean, you do know that having Aspergers and being socially ostracized and lonely are common problems for aspies right?

Not this aspie.
I don't see the point in comparing myself to others and putting myself apart.
I'm odd and people still like me.
If they don't, I'm not too worried.

When I said I couldn't believe anyone would choose to be aspie, it's like would you choose to make yourself deaf or have irritable bowel syndrome?
Of course you wouldn't.
Why then Aspergers?
I don't get it.


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29 May 2017, 9:18 pm

The most bewidering thing is that you think it matters.


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