Ever lived a sheltered life?

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I hear those stories all the time about people having things like friends, cable TV, video game systems (don't ask), etc. during their childhood and teenage years and I always used to wish I had those kinds of things, but then I realized I wouldn't be happy if I had that stuff, too.

I didn't have most of that, either. Access to TV was so limited that I used to sneak downstairs at night to watch "The Brave Little Toaster" repeatedly.

I didn't really miss it. I still don't own a TV or video game system, and I socialize about twice a month. Books are good; so's the Internet; and my school has a subscription to all the major journals. Plus, the library's free. I mean, what better deal than a bunch of free books to read?

What do you mean?

I mean, I've always had games and stuff, as computer games have always been a fun escape for me (I started with the Atari 2600, but I moved onto a PC and its games later on). This doesn't make me sheltered or not.

By what standards?

I didn't think I did, but some people later said I seemes to have.

I dunno

I mean I never really did stuff like sports, play video games, or get involved any activities like karate, scouts, or little leagues as a kid. My family could never afford that type of stuff, I remember telling my mom that I wanted to be a YMCA member and now I work at one!

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Isn't Aspergers in itself a sheltered life? Your mind is locked in ever expanding thoughts that never stop but instead hit the nitrous switch.

My mind usually does and or more at the same time.

Once I got my driver license (at 16), my dad used to have me drive him to the American Legion, with a stop at the library first so that I could get some new books to read (LOL--usually the same ones over and over again).

He would get completely s**tfaced there, while I drank Coke and learned to interact with drunken people.

He told me one day, there at the bar, that I lived a "sheltered life" because of my mom, and that he took me there so that I could see how "ordinary people" lived.

I still can't reconcile that one, because he (not Mom) was the Aspie which begat me.

yes, my mother admits to currently sheltering me and sees that as the only appropritate way of parenting.

I just played the 90s Edition of Trivial Pursuit this evening, and I was reminded how much of a sheltered life I led. Pop culture questions might as well have been in Norwegian.

Not sure....I wasn't confined to the house...I CHOSE to be there...and either watch the news all day or go online.I was allowed to go out if I wanted but chose not to. I live on my own, but chosse to only go out once in a while cuz im either working , in school or at home on my computer.

Well I remember one of my friends having a gameboy when I was younger and then I really wanted one. Eventually my mum bought me a gameboy advance for my birthday, which I then traded in for a Nintendo DS for my next birthday.

I never had cable TV and still don't, because of my affection for cartoons. My mother fears I'll waste away in front of it. (in my opinion, Cartoon Network was a heaven for me, until they decided to stop showing all the shows I fell in love with).