why wrong planet ? as a name?

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I love my obsessions. I love how I can focus on things and learn from them. That's how my fanfictions were born. They also keep me busy in life when I am bored. I can just think about them. But I have learned to control them, I don't talk about them often or go on and on about them or neglect my responsibilities. I'm guilty of starving myself because I was too busy with my fanfiction I didn't want to stop for a moment, same as too busy to go to bed. Call that laziness.
But I would have made myself do to bed if I had to work the next day. Same as if I had kids. I would have forced myself to stop just to feed them and spend time with them or help them with homework.

The name Wrong Planet is cool.

Wonders how muany times this has been asked

AS most certainly does not mean ret*d Kilroy, and I'll thank you very much not to insult the rest of us in your orgy of self-loathing.

Please confine your disparaging remarks to things that apply to yourself specifically and cease casting general aspersions on those around you. I have AS and I'll thank you not to call me ret*d.

If you're seeing everything around you through that kind of rage and negativity, I'm not at all sure that you are living in the real world.

no I meant the general uneducated public sees AS as retardation

even I don't see it as retardation, I see it as a curse on myself
I have no opinions on how I see it on other people-not my problem
I don't hate myself, I just hate a part of me because I can't make it go away

the real world isn't a nice place mind you

I imagine we all have to live in the "real world," which seems like the wrong planet to me, too. (I also used to wonder if I was an alien, and when the mothership would come for me.) Whether it's to shovel snow and have to greet the neighbor doing the same, say hello to people our roommates or parents have over, spend time with an NT spouse or partner's family, go to work, go grocery shopping or hang out with friends, we have to interact with the real world. Yes, it's possible to live a life in which you never have to leave your home, most people don't lead that life. (I'd bet most don't really want to.) Wrong Planet is a bit of a respite from the world dominated by and designed for the NTs.

Kilroy, I understand feeling ashamed. I was too, at first. But I have gotten past that, in a great deal due to Wrong Planet. I discovered a whole community of people who thought the way I did. I find I frequently identify with things other posters say, something that is still new to me. But as Willard says, AS is by no means the same as "ret*d." I have worked extensively with special needs learners, both in mainstream and special education classrooms. I am well aware of the difference between AS students, who are almost universally bright and creative, and my mentally challenged students who struggle daily with benchmarks most learners their age passed by long ago. (They are often creative too!) Many AS students are in fact classified as "gifted." While people who haven't had the chance to learn about AS may think it's like mental retardation, it isn't, and you should know that. Ignorance can be hurtful, but it doesn't change who you are.

Kilroy, I find it terribly sad that you hate this part of yourself so much. I don't know why you do, what was done or said to you that makes you see it as a curse instead of simply one of the things that makes you who you are. I feel that my AS allows me explains why I understand and bond so well with my special needs students. Look for good things in your life -- or try to add positive things to your life -- that are the result of AS. AS makes you special, unique, different. We all have parts of ourselves we wish we could change; I wish I had legs like Angelina Jolie! The fact that I don't doesn't make me hate myself, though. Forget what ignorant people might think about you, and try to find reasons AS isn't a bad thing. (Like me and my legs. My legs my be short, but at least they work!)

Wrong Planet made me feel worse about myself in many ways
personally I don't even know why I came back
maybe to give it another chance

I know its not retardation I was saying the uneducated world thinks it is
this is what they say-they don't know the difference, nor do they care really
but its not their fault

I always felt this way, because i don't want to be this way and have tried for so long to repress everything
its been a terribly hard road to go down

If it can confort you Kilroy, you're not the only one unhappy of being asperger.

I think it's to explain that feeling, like you were just born on the wrong planet. My mom thinks it's absolutely hilarious, because she decided that I must be an alien while she was pregnant with me, because I don't have a normal Earth circadian rhythm.

but its not the same reasons as most AS guys are
girls and friends aren't on my mind like that anymore
its the fact I can't make it go away (or have it cured)
It is in most every part of my life, its annoying, not stressful
that I have to constantly think how I am acting
its like playing a role in a production I had no say in being involved in

before it was about the social aspect of it but that doesn't bother me
what bothers me is how people see me, if I wasn't pressured to have a girlfriend I wouldn't be trying to get one
I don't really care about that (the sex part yes but it won't kill me to be a virgin) another thing that doesn't really bother me much
its how the world looks at me, and thats much stronger then staying positive

my NT daughter saw me reading here one day and asked what wrong planet means, so I explained it to her that a lot of people with autism/AS feel like aliens because, so we feel like we were born on the wrong planet. she cried because she felt so bad that I didn't feel like the earth was my home. it was very sweet but it made me feel kind of bad so I told her that wherever she is, is my home.

I did used to tell people that I was vulcan because I didn't feel emotions the same way as other people and spock was the star trek character I related to best... at least until 7 of 9 came along (I would never say I was borg, however, since 7 of 9 was an anomaly since her connection to the collective was severed.)

I think you will find that most of the 'general uneducated public' have probably never heard of AS (although they may have heard the word autistic).

Furthermore, there are uneducated people who are intelligent, well informed, compassionate and highly successful.

The social and emotional ignorance and/or incompetence of my recently-self-diagnosed AS/HFA have in various ways contributed toward my causing a great deal of harm and pain for others throughout my lifetime, and I sometimes get your same kind of ill feeling inside when I think all of that ...

Being on the wrong planet has not been a pleasant experience, but now I do find some comfort in at least knowing.

I find the notion of "wrong planet" very interesting.

When talking with my friends about aliens, I had a very abstract thought that I had to tell them about. They had been going on about the possibility of aliens in the universe, and whether they're super-intelligent or advanced, and what would conceivably happen should they arrive on Earth, etc. I ventured my idea forward. Imagine if there was an alien on Earth, but it was totally identical to a human being. That is, you look at a group of people standing in a line, and although there are no physical differences between the people and the alien, there is something unnerving about the alien that immediately identifies him as such. I found this idea of mine to be insanely creepy. A normal person, but on observation you realize that something is a little off-center. Needless to say, this stunned them into silent, contemplative thought. I think our IQs all went up one point that night.

My point is, after thinking about it for a couple of days, I realised I was describing myself, and anyone else with Asperger's and Autism. It looks like a human, but there's something just a little off-kilter about it.

Or, to use the definition of "intelligent alien" once provided by noted SF author and Analog editor John W. Campbell, an intelligent alien is "something that thinks as well as a human - but not like a human."