UnusualSuspect wrote:
When I was young and immature, I felt contempt for the human race, and that was long before I knew anything about autism or Asperger's. Now I pity it, and that pity includes Aspies, because many of them are just as deluded in their own ways, particularly about their presumptions of superiority. The human race is basically flawed, and I don't see many examples of Aspies who don't share those flaws.
Great post. Although, I don't think I ever felt contempt for the entire human race, but only for certain people, or groups of people. What I felt was more like confusion. I knew evil existed, but I couldn't understand why it had to. I think my pity or empathy for whole groups (and individuals that I knew personally) of the world's people who were suffering, in my mind needlessly, from hunger, poverty, oppression, cruelty, sickness and disease, etc., weighed very heavily in my child's mind, and do still today, and made me kind of ashamed of my own fortunate life. It didn't seem fair that I should be blessed with everything I needed to be safe and happy, while so many others were not. I still have guilt for not doing more to relieve the world's suffering. When I was a kid I thought I could magically make it all go away and even gave God a few tips on how it could be done. Obviously, God didn't take my advice. But...at least I wasn't stuck dead for being so impertinent.