Is AS worse than cancer?

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08 Oct 2012, 1:25 pm

I do not want pity from anyone (I presume many others do not either) and I'm not sure I even care if people understand me anymore. Being non-nuerotypical is not worse than having a potentially terminal illness. That is a preposterous statement.

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08 Oct 2012, 4:54 pm

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I also don't wish to be pitied, either. I was put on this planet to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Autism isn't worse than cancer and nothing turns me off more than the people who pity us.

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09 Oct 2012, 7:45 pm

It is for the women who have it. I think about killing myself all the time. You men don't know how lucky you are.

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09 Oct 2012, 8:52 pm

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It is for the women who have it. I think about killing myself all the time. You men don't know how lucky you are.

I'm sorry that you're suicidal, but I don't see how that proves that being a non-neurotypical female is worse than having cancer. Drebi is female, and there are many other females on this site. You're the first I've seen that says this (and I'm not comprehending how non-neurotypical males are excluded from your argument).

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10 Oct 2012, 3:08 am

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It is for the women who have it. I think about killing myself all the time. You men don't know how lucky you are.

Because it ruins women in a way it doesn't ruin men. God, why doesn't anybody else see this. It's just not something we can bounce back from. Our interpersonal connection are our existence, and if we can't have them, we die.

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10 Oct 2012, 2:29 pm

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Because not all non-neurotypical women feel this way, in fact, many do not. You feel that way but that is YOUR experience. There are other non-neurotypical women who also feel that way but there are non-neurotypical men who feel that way as well. This is something that is dependent on an individual, not a group.

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10 Oct 2012, 2:40 pm

Female wrote:

Skylie wrote:

Female wrote:

It is for the women who have it. I think about killing myself all the time. You men don't know how lucky you are.

I can't say I agree with you at all.

I don't see what's such a big deal about being autistic other than having meltdowns. I hate meltdowns.

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10 Oct 2012, 2:56 pm

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Our interpersonal connection are our existence, and if we can't have them, we die.

I'm a woman and interpersonal connections just aren't that important to me. I'm married but I don't have any friends (other than my husband I guess you could say) and I'm fine with that. I find interpersonal connections exhausting and do my best to avoid them.

This is just my experience of course.

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10 Oct 2012, 3:07 pm

Heidi80 wrote:

I'd rather have cancer than be neurologically typical

X 2! I don't want to be normal or average. I don't understand what makes then tick. Their lives seem so uninteresting, besides being able to be social. I mean, what do they do? What do they think about?

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10 Oct 2012, 3:13 pm

Female wrote:

Skylie wrote:

Female wrote:

It is for the women who have it. I think about killing myself all the time. You men don't know how lucky you are.

The thing is, it affects everyone differently. Some of the severity many people experience is down to environment and the kinds of people they associate with. Someone with AS will find it harder to connect to people because they connect on a limited scope of subjects rather than just a general connectedness that most people seem able to find. The one thing that is different from the male point of view is issues with romantic relationships. Males are supposed to initiate and AS males have great difficulty in this area. Thus, for a female aspie, it is generally easier to find a mate because they do not need to initiate. Is this true in all situations? Of course not, but it is the general experience. Also, males need other people just as much as females do. They just relate in different ways.

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