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07 Mar 2010, 7:47 pm

why? it baffles me being strange is not a good thing unless its a creepy movie



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07 Mar 2010, 7:49 pm

Not all do. I can't say I'm proud or ashamed. I just am.



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07 Mar 2010, 7:49 pm

For some, it's a licence to be an a-hole.



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07 Mar 2010, 7:50 pm

I like how you've hidden the message ASPIES TAKE PRIDE in your title.



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07 Mar 2010, 7:50 pm

why do cancer survivors celebrate their id. its more pride in yourself than aspies as a whole



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07 Mar 2010, 8:06 pm

Most of the pride-takers have talents and/or gifts to go with it. Most of those who do not drew the short straw and are saddled with unfortunate co-morbids that can make life suck. The vast majority seem to be in the middle, neither taking pride or avoiding taking pride in it, but simply seeing it as a condition like having an extra finger. It simply IS without the need for pride or a lack of pride.


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07 Mar 2010, 8:19 pm

i don't know about anyone else but i take pride because being an aspie makes me unique...well, unique-er :)


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07 Mar 2010, 8:22 pm

I take pride in being an Aspie, because it makes me the unique individual that I am. :)


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07 Mar 2010, 9:08 pm

I take pride to being different and unique. Life be boring if there were no interesting people. I even like unique NTs.



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07 Mar 2010, 9:24 pm

People are proud about all sorts of absurd things, why not autism? I enjoy the unique way I can see and interpret things, I wouldn't say im proud, but I can understand how others could be.


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07 Mar 2010, 9:35 pm

FakeAlias wrote:
why? it baffles me being strange is not a good thing unless its a creepy movie


What would you have us do, shrivel up and blow away? Hide in the closet and suck our respective thumbs?

When life hands you lemons, make lemon merangue pie "fake alias". Sorry you haven't learned that.

Merle

(edited 1x by makeyurowndamnsausages)



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07 Mar 2010, 11:30 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
What would you have us do, shrivel up and blow away? Hide in the closet and suck our respective thumbs?
When life hands you lemons, make lemon merangue pie "fake alias". Sorry you haven't learned that.
Merle


Good Show! thank you for that. :D



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07 Mar 2010, 11:39 pm

I take pride in overcoming the obstacles that I have from Asperger's.


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07 Mar 2010, 11:48 pm

FakeAlias wrote:
why? it baffles me being strange is not a good thing unless its a creepy movie


Being strange also isn't a bad thing. Being strange means being different, and sometimes that's a good thing. Particularly, if it's being genuinely oneself, rather than being different for the sake of being different. Those of us who think differently can have something to offer that others can't.


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07 Mar 2010, 11:55 pm

FakeAlias wrote:
why? it baffles me being strange is not a good thing unless its a creepy movie


Who says all Aspies come across as strange? I don't. I can make the exact same first impression as a lot of NT's. Once people get to know me, they do realize I'm not the average person, but even then I come across as "quirky", and people find that endearing, not strange.

I don't take pride in being Aspie, though. What's the point of being proud of something you didn't do?


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08 Mar 2010, 12:14 am

I take pride in being myself, in a postmodern world. :)


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