Are you broken?

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No.

I see myself as the fixed solution!

Great song.

I see myself as broken.

Asperger's syndome, Social Anxiety disorder, ADHD-i, Borderline personality disorder, feelings of Derealizaion whenever I'm outside.

I don't know how I havent developed depression

I'm just waiting for the day to come that I start hearing voices and seeing things that aren't really there, thatll be my "I give up" day.

I am not broken. There are things I don't do well, like everything Spokane girl mentioned. That doesn't mean I am broken. I am a person who doesn't relate well to others and has a label that explains why.

I do things well that others cannot touch or approach. Does that mean they are broken? I think not. Referring to AV-geek's wonderful comment, I don't even think I have a design flaw.

I see many NTs as broken. They expect each other (and us) to figure out how they're feeling and what they're thinking without their actually having to say anything. They continue to expect this, even when it becomes plainly obvious to the meanest intelligence that it's not happening, and that they themselves can't accomplish this level of telepathy.

Poor things, unable to adjust to the world outside their heads. I feel so sorry for them sometimes...

DeaconBlues has an interesting point. The consensus on this post seems to be that we are not broken. Many NT's seem to think they are broken, hence the booming therapy business and the prevalence of 'better living through chemical dependancy' in American society.

And WE are on the wrong planet? Maybe the air is just better on ours.

This past year was the best year of my life. Suddenly, through the diagnosis, everything makes sense. I now feel whole, not broken.

I'm not broken per se. I'm completely demented and usually socially unacceptable, but not broken in any way shape or form. Bent. Driven to distraction. Can't do it the "normal way".

I prefer to think of it as delightfully quirky. How would the world be without me to point out all the rubbish? Bloody boring.

Hear! Hear! I agree totally. I'm still trying to figure out where I fit in, but at least I know I'm not some transporter accident freak trying to pretend to be human. I've given that up, now that I know I'm just on the Wrong Planet!

I's not as simple as broken or not.

In general I do not consider myself to be broken; in general, I think of myself as thinking sideways-parallel, whilst more typical humans tend to thing straightways-serial.

It would probably not be inaccurate to say that there are parts of me that are broken, and these do lie along the typical Aspie/autistic lines of what is broken: sensing social cadence, displaying appropriate empathy, understanding what should be discussed and what should be kept back, dealing with sustained sensory overload gracefully... These are broken aspects with a robust, functional, and relatively gifted whole. I do not dwell on the broken parts, other than to seek mitigations; I like to focus more on accentuating my strengths.

The term I prefer typical humans use as a descriptor for me is eccentric.

Good fortune,

- Icarus ain't broke, so don't try to fix him...

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Broken because i see things differently? No.
(and Merle, i love you.)

But, i say i am "broken" when i WANT to do something and cannot. when i cannot feel or talk and i am not content about it.

so i mean broken from myself, since sometimes i am online and sometimes off.

That's not broken, that's just dissociated. I am too, all the time. It's oddto read your diagnoses because you have as many as I do--AS, borderline, D.I.D., PTSD, NVLD, OCD...the list goes on and on.

Gah.

Anyhoo, if we're broken, that gives us an opportunity to be misunderstood brooding geniuses. Muahahaha.

This world is about driving nails. We need to use a pipe wrench to drive nails.

Built for a different purpose... I'm a square peg built to fit into a square hole but some idiot keeps trying to stick me in round ones.

No I do not see myself as broken, just moulded differently to others, which I am actually grateful for.




Your brain is not malfunctioning, it is just wired differently. You really need to look at all the things you consider to be 'broken' and turn them into positives. I will use the next quote from yourself as an example.




Instead of feeling like your brain is malfunctioning because you cannot always pick up emotions, don't worry about it, you can actually bypass some tricky emotional situations this way. And yes, NT's can pick up people's emotions, but some use others emotions to their advantage and can be manipulative, which, I feel, you will never be because you are too busy trying to grasp the concept of picking up others emotions because you are concerned for them/yourself. Not that I think you would be manipulative anyway, but you see what I'm saying?



I'm exactly the same, so I tend to steer clear of others as much as I can when I am not in a chatty mood because of my aspieness. That can suck but when I am chatty it makes up for it.



And you are not dead. Therefore, according to your boyfriend, you are not broken and he obviously wants you the way you are otherwise why would he stick around?

On some days more than others.