I'm too unique

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This post is going to be pretty short compared to Wrong Planet standards because I probably have verbal memory deficits, but I honestly feel like I'm a bit too unique. You know that theory "Be yourself, and everything will be peachy"? I don't think that actually works if you're too different from the norm, especially not if you have deficits in the abilities associated with neurotypicals (Like "theory of mind" and "nonverbal" receptiveness and expressiveness deficits.). I could be fooling myself, and maybe I'm just schizophrenic or maybe I'm just universally boringly normal, but sometimes I get the feeling I'm just a bit too unique. I absolutely rock the casbah at math and science, but yet I suck dismally when it comes to memorizing verbal and spoken material. Yet, I recall and use inappropriately rare and long words in my everyday speech when I'm simply "normally speaking", and I commonly get "called out" on being pretentious. WTF? It's just what comes naturally to me. Leave me alone, you neurotypical cretins!

Since interpersonal similarity is the foundation of love and attraction, finding "the other" seems like a Sisyphean task for me. I feel I'm just too unique. (Oh, I see I've repeated the phrase "I'm just a bit too unique" a bit too often, haha. This is probably an expression of memory deficits of some sort, lol. What a typical human foible. )

Last edited by swbluto on 17 Sep 2011, 4:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

People like you are a dime a dozen!

Did that make you feel better?

That felt like a shot of oxycodone. Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to hear! lol

You have no idea just how much I can relate to that.

Me too.

As a child we don't want to be different, we want to be like everyone else. As an adult, we want to be special. I observe this when I go shopping, a group of young girls are all dressed in the same clothes, the same fashions. When you become an adult, you don't give a stuff about what you wear. Some people do though. I still feel like a child sometimes and I just want to be accepted This is something that most aspies feel, Iam right?

I get tired of being different, but I really don't have much choice in the matter. I can relate to being "too unique"...occasionally you'll find someone who appreciates it, but they're few and far between.

~Kate

Well, Ashuahhe, my current mentality is that I want people to accept me for being different, and to not force myself to change for others. But that's just me, and I don't need anyone if that must be the case.

Society just wants us to look like everyone else, act like everyone else which places a huge pressure on you to conform. This is where the apsies come in, we think differently and no one can change that, well not easily

Some people might, but society at large won't. But, you know, there's that tribalism idea in neurotypical circles about "As long as you got your friends, who cares what everyone else thinks?".