If you could tell Neurotypicals one thing what would it be?

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To neurotypicals I say:

"I'm a good man and I'm doing my best. You're just as strange to me as I am to you."

What you consider to be normal, it doesn't make sense to me. I prefer to be who I am, rather being what others would like me to be without following my rationality.

Thank you all so much! This is the right place to post both NT and Aspie/Autie responses Keep 'em coming!

That it's not something happening to 'other people' in some remote area, it's not something esoteric, they might actually meet people with an ASD, or they've already met them.

Sometimes I would just like to scream:

Guess what? When it's good being autistic, being me, when my sensitivity is working for me and I can see all these links in things and the world is beautiful and colourful and makes sense, and I am enjoying my own company or the company of other amazing sensitive people.......I don't want to be like you, I don't need to fit in.

You have always made me feel bad about what I am, but AT LEAST I CAN THINK FOR MYSELF!

AND AT LEAST I CAN SPEND TIME ALONE! I don't need to go to parties to feel some kind of sense of existential reassurance about my existence in the cosmos.

(I enjoy live music, dancing, and the odd social drink, but that's a different concept to that of a ''party'', certainly in NT terms)

Don't call me a ret*d. FYI: You people seem very brainless to us.

All I want is the right to do what you already have the unspoken right to do: shape my surroundings and world to my needs and comfort without being questioned or automatically expected to change and be like someone else.


I told you so. What did you think was going to happen or where you too busy telling me that I think too much?


I am not the only one with a problem but at least I know what my problem is even without you blaming everything on it.

To folks at the church I attend services at:
Get your superficial heads out of the sand and start accepting people as they are, whether they're Catholic or not.

To Neurotypicals in general:
Get your superficial heads out of your asses and try seeing things from the points of view of people who are not like you and are different.

Well, I don't think Catholics at your church are hardly going to place worldly egalitarianism over the commands of God. I think they have their priorities with regards to their religion; that's not to say that I share their sentiment. Despite this, I've never met Catholics like the ones you refer to. Are you at a staunchly traditional church?

Strangely enough, the people who have been most understanding and sympathy of my ASD - those whom I have had the most fruitful conversations with - have been "intolerant" traditional Catholics (SSPX), nationalists and Fascists. Go figure. My good Catholic friend once remarked that the traditionalist wing of Catholicism, and the nationalist wing of politics, does seem to attract eccentrics, geniuses and people with Aspergers (or Autism). It's remarkably true!

To a degree, yes. Most people at the church I go have really big chips on their shoulders against people similar to we Aspies.

How does their behaviour manifest? Is it parochial gossip in the corner? Do they survey you suspiciously from a distance, or is their aversion direct and vocal?

I don't always understand your language, but I try. Try to understand the way I communicate with you.

To Neurotypicals in general:
If you think I'm being strange, maybe you are too; you just don't want to see it.

Just because I don't want to go to a party doesn't mean I dislike you personally; I just dislike being around too many people.

Just because I'm not smiling doesn't mean I'm not having fun, and just because I'm not interested in every minute, banal detail of your life doesn't mean I don't want your friendship.

I suppose that's 2 things, but oh well.

No, I really don't spontaneously "understand". Explain it to me in detail.

No, I'm really not being a passive aggressive b*tch. I just don't "get it".

Logic is a good thing.