Are autistics crazy?

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I mean i don't want to have friends,i want to be alone,i prefer being in my own world with my interests,i hate it when others give attention to me or bother me i just want to be alone in my world i just want others to consider me dead...Thats why i will choose organic farming as my jonb,because i want my peace...I hate to socialize and i love autism...

p.s.nobody knows that i know that i am in the autistic disorder either autism or pddnos or aspergers...

Last edited by Chief__ on 09 Sep 2009, 4:27 am, edited 1 time in total.

No.

(Unless they so happen to have a comorbid psychotic disorder, but that's actually rare.)

Define "crazy". Define "sane".
Where is the dividing line?

It is not as if these things are solid; are fact. More like opinions.

i mean because everybody says that i am crazy
and thats why i am asking it
are autistics crazy???
i mean i think autistics are sane people and not crazt
because i am different does that mean that i am crazy??
because i love being alone does that mean i am crazy??
because i am eccentric does that make me crazy??
thats why i am asking because everybody thinks that i am crazy

p.s.i love in a country which autism is not so well known and ignorance exists

People throw the word crazy around like the word love. You can say you love pizza and you can say you love your mother but of course you mean completely different things. It doesn't sound like anybody is saying you are delusional and psychotic. There have been times when people have called me weird but I could tell they didn't mean it in a bad way. They just meant unusual.

I don't think so.

That sounds like a wonderful life to me

if you live in a country where autistics/Asperger's Syndrome is unknown and others around you think you are (what ever they mean by) 'crazy', it is probably because they have no other idea what your uniqueness could be. So they use a word that means 'different in a big way' from them.

How can we believe anything you say when you post from a Guatemalan insane asylum?



Sorry, Daniel, couldn't resist.

Chief said:

The people who say you are crazy probably haven't met anyone like you before.

Autism is not equal to insanity. So the answer is NO

I personally believe autists are the sanest of the sane.

All crazy people are different but All different people are not crazy

I'm sure your questions are hypothetical. The answer of course is No & No.

I'm sure you are exaggerating when you say everybody, but I'll bet it seems like everybody at times. They just don't know any better.

That would explain it.

F*** it, it's the NTs that are crazy. They have this built-in tendency to agree with each other, and use that to justify their belief that they're right.

Well, I mean. Look at the state of this planet. Right????

That's great! Organic Farming sounds wonderful, but very hard work. I have a bit of a green thumb myself but I don't like the hot sun. My farm would be in a place that doesn't get too hot in the summer and has low humidity most of the year. I also have an aversion to grass cutting and lawn mowers of all types. But, I love growing plants from seeds. I go out and stare at them, noticing each nuance as they grow from seeds buried in the soil to tiny green stims with two leafs into plants. My favorite types are Dills and Cosmos.
I've thought about how cool it would be to have a farm that specializes in rare, exotic plants.
I don't think it sounds crazy at all!

Secon That opinion.

As I said, sanity/insanity is matter of opinion, not fact.
The question is, what do you think? Do you think you are sane? There lies the only answer that matters, I think.

Myself, I go from thinking I'm a nutter, to thinking I'm the only sane person in the world... often switching viewpoints multiple times within the same day...

autistics can seem crazy by their actions but i dont think autism automatically equals to crazy. ive been called crazy before, but they told me they were joking cuz of my actions im all over the place and never stop moving lol.

Well, I said it was rare for someone with an ASD to have a psychotic disorder. Anyway, I'm just here tasting the local flavour in the form of The Merciless Pepper of Quetzalacatenango.

Anyway, people with an ASD are oftentimes more rational/logical than their contemporary peers (from various clinicians). This is of course if you define crazy as insane, which is marked by illogical/irrational thoughts and behaviour that the individual truly believes in (delusions and hallucinations that interfere with one's life severely).