What we Would have achieved in life

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If I were born NT -- I'd likely be the kind who would choose to take the wrong side of the tracks, likely out of pleasure and greed; the wrong side of the law, the wrong side of life.

If I were successful, I'd be one of the most despised charming and manipulative bastard. If I were a failure in that life, I'd be in jail, a teen mom, an addict, or dead at my current age. I cannot be certain.


If that life didn't choose to be at the wrong side of the law, it'll be most likely that I'd no longer live in my current country at my current age.
I'd be one of those OFWs -- yet not guaranteed if successful or not. Not guaranteed if I'd be alone or have a family member with me, likely the latter. Also not guaranteed if I'd become a professional overseas worker or just another domestic helper/maid/some underpaid employee overseas gambling for the concept of success and achievement.
At best, it's just another lucky OFW story -- at worst, dead or accused on some foreign land and no one knew.



So uhm... Sure. I'd have a different life. But would it be any better?

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Naw my friend its the oposite,

Albert einstein he showed signs of aspergers,
He achieved things which we still profit of the knowledge.

Many of the scientists, philosophers, artists etc that haveing shaped and layed the foundation we build future on where haveing issues. The thing is, they have been left alone to do what they like or are intressted in. Its a curse but a talent in the same time. Even if you dont achieve a noble prize know for yourself no matter what the conditions are and i know myself its not easy but we fight, we try, eventually one day open a door that could lead to peace. This alone deserves a noble prize even if its just an imaginary one but its far greater.

I'm quite happy being where I am right at this moment, even though it was rather painful getting here. I wouldn't want to take any other path that would lead to me being somewhere else.

For example, if I was an NT I might have got on better at work and been promoted more, then I wouldn't have been made redundant eight years ago, I might still be working at an awful job rather than going on holiday tomorrow.

I don't believe autism is a disease, but I've been wondering more and more these days what it would be like if I was NT. Maybe I'd be able to drive and have a real job like most people my age, and I wouldn't be relying on my parents so much. Maybe I'd have more money because I wouldn't be spending so much of it on my special interests. Maybe I wouldn't have had to move into a group home in my early 20's and have all kinds of anxiety and depression and health problems before I was finally diagnosed with Asperger's.

Of course if I had been diagnosed when I was still a child or even a teenager, things might have been better. Or maybe not, because I might have been put in ABA where I might be severely punished for things like preferring to play alone than socializing with kids and not because I'm shy or whatever but because I like it, or crying from sensory overload, or even lining up my toys. It would be even worse than the way I was already being treated.

But when I remember how NTs typically act in our society - constantly lying, acting special and superior, bullying others, caring more about royal weddings than our future as a species... the more I prefer being aspie.