"Wow, you can't get along with anyone!"

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hartz, my autism weirdness comes out in odd places for me, too. Around other auties/Aspies, no problems talking about it like it is. But I have found when you are among neurotypicals, they just *don't get* the autism thing or our description of it very well, and you have to dumb-down the language for them so they can follow what you are saying by using boring neurotypical words. It is rare day when a neurotpyical *gets* an autie joke, just in my experience. So, if I really want there to be a two-way conversation, I just resort to dumbing it down and that usually works, but this still does not eliminate the entire problem of neurotypicals tending to perceive me as weird because I can't control all of my quircks -- like sometimes the stimming or swiveling in chairs. It doesn't take much of a subtle nuance for a neurotypical to pick up on a person's autism, even if they don't know exactly that autism is what makes you different.

Well this is what he looked like too:

I guess I shouldn't let it bother me too much, he put a toy car in his butt one time, and he freaked out in 11th grade when we got a new teacher, then he told me the girl he was too take to the Junior Prom was hotter than me...

WTF? Why? How did he get it back out? Or did he?

I don't know, but it was 2 years ago and apparently he was drunk when he did it.

Fantastic thread at 42 two years into diagnosis which i had to do myself later confirmed iam coming to the conclusion it is an unbridgeable gap.There seems two alternatives be yourself and be belittled and derided or talk about nothing .Ive decided to be myself and not take the negatives to heart we must speak about this in the nt world because of this sight we can communicate this is fantastic.I think that nts dont want to think to deeply about there emotions this is seen as weakness when in reality it is an incredible strength.The only solution is for famous nts to come out because celebrity is the only thing respected.

39 myself.... I put forth the idea that you live in a corrupt world that lacks the stories of 'right of passage' and 'be myself' is an old message that has been lost in today's world of organized brainwashing and conformity.

Joseph Campbell teaches this... (paraphrasing) he believes the religions of the western culture are too out of touch with everyday life - and it causes people to not learn the oldest and most common human lessons. So you are being judged by a corrupted society.

Joseph Campbell's worked his ass off to study humanity bot past and present, all religions. One of many relevant quotes:


Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.


If you haven't seen the Bill Moyer interviews (The Power of Myth) I encourage you to do so.

I have trouble getting along with people do to my sensitive hearing, and whenever a child screams, baby cries or dog barks I turn into a b*tch and I start to complain about it and I criticize the parent/owner for not shutting up their kid/dog to the person I'm hanging out with.

They then start that "It's only a baby!" or "There playing!" or "Dogs bark!"
Then I just want to punch them for not understanding