How do you think you'd have lived with AS in past centuries?

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I would have been carted off to one of those damned villages where all the crazies live.

Not well.

Shaman, holy man, mystic, sorcerer, lunatic, hermit, all in no particular order.

Mark

I swear to God if I beleived in past lives which I don't I'd be sure I was Thomas Jefferson. He was basicly me in the 1700s

Funny you should say that. I was Winston Churchill.

During the Middle Ages, they surely would have burnt me at the stake or tried to release my cranial demons with trepanning.

Does anyone not know what trepanning is? Basically it is the crude ancestor of all modern neurosurgery.

I would have probably been the town hermit, people would have strange superstitions about me, and would use me as an example for children to behave(that would be a laugh)most people would try to avoid me if I did take the rare venture out into the world.

I woud have been burned at the steak.

If I didn't die from the seizure disorder I had as an infant, if I were living in the Middle Ages, I would have been burnt at the stake as a witch.

Based on my preferred jobs/careers/hobbies, wandering verbal historian/storyteller, blacksmith or other smithy, armorer, monk (the dissident kind), the lone woodsman, the teacher, hunter/trapper/mountainman. the outcast, the paladin.

Mark

I probably would have died early or lived a miserable life thanks to my allergies.

I would have become a monk and spent half the day in the scriptorium illuminating manuscripts, and half the day tending the monastery's garden. I would probably have been regarded as particularly pious because I would have worked hard and talked little.

I would have worked on other ppl's nerves all day

I would probably have lived with my family my whole life, or joined a convent. It's possible, though, that I would have lived in the same village with the same people my whole life, and that might have made it easier to find a husband and have kids, since I would have had time to actually get to know people and learn to trust them.

I know in earlier centuries people stayed at home until they married/were financially independent, which would have taken a lot of pressure off. Also, if you were very low functioning and your family had the cash, you were sometimes removed from the home and raised in a foster home and your siblings never saw you again. Jane Austen had a brother and uncle who were mentally ret*d, and they were raised by a family in a village somewhere (someone in her family paid for it) and never knew their relatives.