Why don't Aspies stick together?

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We need a rep. system on here.

LOL @ Rascal77 post, I was cracking up in real life, highlight of my day.

ASRA(Aspergers Rebel Army)

What you describe is population diversity, not organization. "Combining skills" is not a purpose, it is a vaguely-worded method.

Would this be a corporation, a social network, a support group ... what?

Would the purpose be education, manufacturing, retail, scientific research, socializing ... what?

IMHO, the aspies i've seen [so far] remind me [by and large] of hyper-logical fastidious long-tailed cats, hypervigilant of rocking chairs, that are reluctant to play nice with one another, who live in their own worlds of idiosyncratic rationality which are defended with high impregnable walls [of inpenetrably argumentative verbiage] and broad alligator-filled moats [of pedantic prosaic invective] to keep never-to-be-trusted outsiders safely outside. just my opinion here.

Oh, he was joking? Darn. I was about to suggest that magnetic bombs and motorcycles are more trendy these days. An' yanow, the Aspie CRIPS would have to be in style...

Really, how much of the social difficulty that you all love to dwell on is just that you don't know who you are inside?

I have three uncles who are always at odds. Their personal styles are night-and-day different, but their real nature is identical. They hate each-other because the Greco-Mesopotamian culture that they were raised with demonizes strength, and each one sees in the others the same strengths that he's trying to destroy in himself. The cure? Stop letting a bunch of brain-dead goat-herders tell you what's good and bad.

Really, look at the Mideast; look at Europe for the 1,000 years before there were scads of US troops keeping them from killing each-other; look at them quarreling now that we're drawing our troops down. Is that an ideal worth waging war on your own instincts for? Rather than half-heartedly (brokenheartedly?) joking about CRIPS and drivebys, why not get a pair (heck, even a pair for each of you so that you don't have to share) and get to know yourselves. The rather than being at odds with everyone who has anything in common with who you really are inside, rather than being bad at being something unnatural, rather than being alone with the self that you hate because you can't stand anyone who reminds you of it, and rather than being constantly worn-out living an act when everyone that you have to compete against gets to flit around on impulse, you could be good at being who you really are, know who your natural allies are, build effective teams, and win.

[edit]: Oh, and I wouldn't say it's "just population diversity" if what we're talking about is a skill-share. Populations can be diverse and still not work together.

I would assume he's considering something in the style of a self help group providing mutual support. Ie; the people with skills try and help those without.

I would look at Switzerland as a model for how to defend yourself without getting too many people mad at you.

it would probably look like a joke to the NT population, Jay Leno & David Letterman would probably have a field day roasting this aspie brotherhood in their monologs.

Luckily for us aspies can sometimes become very powerful in their own right, look at that Austrian Painter bloke who was in charge of Germany for twelve years!

IMHO, the aspies i've seen [so far] remind me [by and large] of hyper-logical fastidious long-tailed cats, hypervigilant of rocking chairs, that are reluctant to play nice with one another, who live in their own worlds of idiosyncratic rationality which are defended with high impregnable walls [of inpenetrably argumentative verbiage] and broad alligator-filled moats [of pedantic prosaic invective] to keep never-to-be-trusted outsiders safely outside. just my opinion here.

...and then he committed suicide in his bunker while his capital city was pillaged by Russians.