30 Apr 2011, 1:25 am
30 Apr 2011, 2:19 am
At first it was kinda, well, I don't know, but it didn't seem very real. You make it sound like everything worked out perfectly, and I find that hard to believe.
These two paragraphs I thought were very good. I couldn't have made a better description of what it's like in high school for an aspie. Heck, it almost seems as if I wrote that, especially the bolded parts.
When I was 15, my parents saw the problems I was having relating to **neurotypical teens so they enrolled me in Club Neuro, a social club JUST for youth from ages 14-22 with Asperger's Syndrome and hidden social and/or learning disabilities. Club Neuro was like a safe haven to me. We did all kinds of fun activities that were supervised by the staff who understood us *Aspies; we met 3 to 4 times a month and did a wide ranging of activities together such as bowling, hiking, and just hanging around the clubhouse and talking amongst ourselves. I ended up bonding with this girl named Mackenzie, who was a year older than me and also felt like an outsider at her school. We quickly became best friends, spending much of our weekends together, sleeping over at each other's houses, surfing the internet, watching documentaries (which we preferred to those artificial, staged reality shows that everyone else loved) , and talking about our dreams and goals. We both were PROUD being different from most of the other Paris Hilton and Miley Cyrus wannabees at our schools. We often wondered why those airheads were called "normal" while we were the ones being stigmatized for having a "social learning disability." We even started own Aspiegirlz website making fun of **neurotypical girls our age and their obsessions with make-up, clothes, texting all the time, and looking cool. Mackenzie and I both loved Club Neuro because we knew we could be ourselves there and were valued for who were without about being stigmatized; we "Aspiegirlz" ruled!
I doubt that I would enjoy going to a social club, but I could definitely see myself making fun of NT's in real life just as I do here on WP
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Now, I'm sure you had a reason for doing this, but if you were born in 1996, there's no way you could be any older than 15 now. Which means you haven't graduated yet, and you sure as heck won't be going off to college anytime soon. That should be written in a future tense rather than past.
30 Apr 2011, 2:44 am
Read top of the webpage: For the sake of continuity, I decided to extrapolate the story to age 30 or the year 2026 in past tense just to make the story more complete. I made myself born in 1996 because I think AS became more mainstream knowledge among educators around 2000ish so it was far more likely to get a diagnosis at age 6 than if had been born in 1990 or so. Yeah, I think I made the early years a bit too sugary sweet so I may change it later on to include some more bullying as well as some adults who did NOT understand and thought AS was a BS diagnosis although they might have "known" I had it.
As for the high school thing, my real high school experience was 100 times worse; if you want to read my REAL high school experience in the early 1990s you can go to, http://www.myaspergerslifestory.com/my_ ... years.html
Thanx for your feedback
Allie Kat
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