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You are entitled to your opinion; that does not make it fact for others.


M.

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I agree. I think it's impossible to know how it feels to have somebody else's brain. I don't have the faintest idea what it feels like to have autism. Ok, I have the faintest idea, but my idea is just a compilation of the similarities I see amongst posts here. That's a faint idea indeed. And probably dead wrong. The fact is, I don't even know how the world seems to my brothers or my sisters or my parents or my friends or literally anybody else. Theory of Mind is just that...a theory that people have, a model of how other peoples' brains work that can sometimes accurately predict their behaviour, repsonses and feelings and sometimes not. The bottom line is, I have no idea how itfeels to be you or how it feels to have any condition or wiring that I don't have. I don't know how it feels to be left handed, musically gifted, mentally ret*d, a genius, or really how it feels to be anything but me. If I woke up tomorrow as an autistic person, I can't make any predictions on how that would feel different from my current state. I can make hypotheses based on posts here. But those hypotheses are not the same as actually knowing.

Long story short, anybody who says they know how it feels to have a condition they don't have is wrong. They don't know. It is impossible to know. This works both ways. Anybody with Aspergers Syndrome/Autism who is sure they would be "stupid" if they woke up one day with an NT-wired brain is just as wrong as I would be if I made a hypothesis on how I would think differently based on posts here.

Personally, I doubt I could ever understand what it is like to be and NT for, the mere fact, from age 3 I've always done things from an unorthodoxical manner and that still is the case with myself now at 36 so, more than likely I'll always be a blank unto comprehending the full mindset of what it is to be an "NT"

wrongness and vulgarity are in the mind of the beholder. behold away.


you "guess" very many things it seems.

i am done talking here so do not bother to reply.