glider18's Wonderful World of Autism

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Love that fiddle playing.

Wow, what a great video! I like the music, as well as the dancing. You´re right...it does look fun. I want to do it too!

There is probably one close to you. You inspired me to post a forum topic about it.

That was great playing fiddlerpianist---I truly enjoyed it. I played your video several times and let my wife listen to it---she loved it and thought it looked like great fun. You are truly talented. Thanks for posting it.

thank you so much for such a great thread............your positive thoughts are a blessing and inspiration to all of us, but i truly admire your gift of positiveness, especially to our younger peers who need to hear it from people like you and i that ,IT WILL GET BETTER AS YOU AGE, YOU HAVE SO MANY GIFTS INSIDE YOU KNOW, CHERISH THEM..USE THEM.......FIGURE OUT THE ONES THAT WILL SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FINANCIALLY

don't get too down on yourself, it is ok to feel sorry for yourself for a minute, but get up right away and fight the battle with dignity and respect for those around you


thanks so much glider for my dose of POWER POSITIVE for my exciting day tommorow

You are welcome AnAutisticMind---this thread would be worthless without the appreciation for it from people like you. So I thank you, and all the other supportive members, for helping make this thread wonderful.

fiddlerpianist i loved your playing and your foot tapping. fantastic.
as for trying contra-dancing - WAY WAY WAY beyond me...all that touching and contact and all those people. yikes.

Wow you make some amazing music fiddlerpianist, it was an absolute pleasure and privilege to hear you playing!

I like this thread, it's so positive!
Wonderful fiddle-playing fiddlerpianist, thanks for sharing that. It made me feel like joining in with the dancing. My father used to play the fiddle (plus other instruments) but the sound of a fiddle/violin is my favourite. We used to do that type of dancing at school but it was called Country dancing here in the UK. Happy memories

I've been thinking about the question in this topic for a few days on and off, it kind of grabbed me and made me think. At first I couldn't think of anything that is so great about autism. Not that I view it as a negative thing, it 'just is so', and I don't have any special AS talents. Then I pondered a bit longer and realised it's an ability to focus a very tight, pure beam of attention, to the exclusion of everything else. It's being totally absorbed 'in the moment', and finding a lot of meaning in that moment. Maybe that is an AS thing.

Thread!

My condition has given me a view outside of humanity.

I would say autism but i havent been diagnosed.

But I strongly suspect AS.
I have been diagnose with dyspraia and ADHD.

I think you are exactly right Starr---autism can cause us to focus so intently on a topic that we become "totally absorbed in the moment" and our attention excludes everything else. That is how I explain my playing of music. I am so tightly absorbed in the playing of the musical instrument that I phase out people/things around me. I describe it like being inside of a transparent dome---able to see what is beyond, but yet disconnected from the "beyond" too.

So yes, I believe this ability to focus so tightly on things is a gift. It allows us to perceive things in a very special way not understood by most people.

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I think you are exactly right Starr---autism can cause us to focus so intently on a topic that we become "totally absorbed in the moment" and our attention excludes everything else. That is how I explain my playing of music. I am so tightly absorbed in the playing of the musical instrument that I phase out people/things around me. I describe it like being inside of a transparent dome---able to see what is beyond, but yet disconnected from the "beyond" too.[/quote]

For me it's kind of an out-of-body experience... like I can look down and just watch myself play, watch my fingers move, watch my feet go. There is no conscious thought to it; it just happens. I can disconnect almost completely. It's really an amazing feeling.

Thanks for all of the compliments on the contra dancing video. It's one of my favorite ways to make others happy.

glider18, I'll state for the record, I'm okay with being whom I am for, if one were to so-called"Cure" me of my Aspergers most likely, I'd not be very good with the inner workings of computers and the like as well, being able to sometimes see things in an unorthodoxical manner as such.. That's where I stand on this.

For me it's kind of an out-of-body experience... like I can look down and just watch myself play, watch my fingers move, watch my feet go. There is no conscious thought to it; it just happens. I can disconnect almost completely. It's really an amazing feeling.

Thanks for all of the compliments on the contra dancing video. It's one of my favorite ways to make others happy.[/quote]

Yes, what you guys are explaining is exactly how I felt when I used to dance onstage. It was a truly amazing, transcendent, spiritual experience. There is no comparison to this feeling, nothing else comes close to it!

Glider, you have invented nothing. It's long been said, over and over, on here that Aspies who are fortunate enough to have a talent that makes them enough money to live on without depending on being liked by an employer can be a lot happier and more fulfilled than any given NT. Or Aspies that are too young still to grasp how desperate life can become when the parents are not there anymore to supply a roof and food. Or Aspies who were lucky enough to inherit a roof and only need to work for a bit of money here and there to get some food. Or Aspies who were lucky to be born in rich countries where they can cover food and shelter with social benefits. Or an Aspie with a spouse who supports them.

I find it very inconsiderate, as well as inaccurate, to start a thread calling us, Aspies dying of destitution, Aspies who don't see the positive in Autism. Do you think it means anything to us to have an ability to enjoy life, or special talents for the meaningful and spiritual, when we don't have a roof over our heads?

We're not stupid negativists who haven't discovered the light you've discovered. We're people trying to survive in a world that won't let us work, however hard we're willing to work, for our food and shelter. And when you don't have those 2, nothing else matters, I can assure you.

So this is a thread NOT FOR THE POSITIVE ASPIES, but for the elitistic few who, Aspie or not, are LUCKY not to have to depend for survival on NTs finding them cool enough.

Someone had to say it.

I have really been intrigued by reference of a type of intense focusing beam in getting into our interests. That has been one of the things that keeps me working on this huge novel I am working on. It is a sci-fi/horror blend, and it utilizes many of my interests. So I know that if I had not been born with autism, then I wouldn't have developed such intense interests---thus no novel. So I think it is a great gift for us to use that intense focus to achieve our goals and passions.