An Aspie Apart:My story

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Hey Wrongplanet,

So this is my story, i just thought i would share it with yall, so maybe it would motivate some of you guys who are feeling sad to get up and improve yourselves:


So I grew up in philadelphia, were i would hang out with my friends, and relax, but being that i was an aspie i achieved a lot of discrimination, even though i was really smart, and would always answer questions before my teachers could, ask anyone else. one day though i got in a fight with some thugs, because they didnt understand the whole AS spectrum thing. so i moved to my uncles house in LA, which was pretty cool, because for the first time in my life i got to be the cool kid, and show everyone how we did things in philly . but unfortunatley it was short lived. Because my cousin who had been off following the band: Rush. came back to live with us. Only spending time with Rush made him cruel and callous. he would spend most of his time brooding, or else he would beat me while singing fly by night and snorting cocaine out of torn pen mountain dew cans. needless to say i could take this no longer, so i fled my childhood home, and hitchhiked for a year performing odd jobs, and sharing wisdom. Eventually i had saved up enough money to move to canada. which was my dream come true, because i read in a time magazine one time that canada was a place were all people were accepted and i thought because i was different they would accept me. unfortunatley, i was wrong again. I quickly found a job as a tradesman performing services, for truckers, and gas station attendants. Living among the dregs of society. For the first time i was free and able to do the things i wanted to do(I also attended my first anime convention, so awesome!) but like i said it would not be all fun and games. My cousin quickly caught up with me, only by then he had become involved in hard drugs,(he had even forsaken jesus) he propositioned me for money which i was forced to give him again leaving me with nothing. i was forced to become a street performer(thankfully i knew many dance moves by then) and even got the opportunity to meet up and coming rapper "50 tyson" and help him write his hit song " born 2 be a ball player" but i digress. i eventually worked my way up through canada, until i hit alaska,(canada was not the place i had thought it would be) so i journeyed to the alaskan tundra where i would go on long journeys taking only what i could take off the people i robbed: a couple bottles of purple gatorade(gross!) and a jumbo bag of funyuns. There i met Alonso gersasbur a doctor, mountain climber, and eccentric genius. he taught me to understand medical terms and i was able to become a doctor, and finally move back to philly. Im not sure if im the first aspie doctor, but i definatley think im one the best. Lets see an NT live through something like that! this is just a way of telling you guys that dreams do come true, you can accomplish great things even as an aspie, DONT GIVE IN!! !

Thanks for sharing your story.

Now that you are living in Philly again, do you ever come to the Philadelphia Area GRASP meetings?

Amazing story

thank you for these kind words, I have dropped in on a few philly GRASP meets but unfortunatley blueroses i do not do public speaking, its much to much pressure, i prefer to simply tell people my story in a place like this were i wont be judged. and thank you SuperApsie, all things considered i guess it was pretty amazing

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A truely inspiring story! Thanks for Sharing that with us!

Just in case we are misunderstanding each other, GRASP is a support group for adults with ASD. We wouldn't make you to do any public speaking or make you feel judged, but you'd get the chance to meet others on the Spectrum and hear their stories. I'd just thought of it because we have a few members who are doctors and you'd mentioned in your post not being sure if you were the first person with ASD to become a doctor. We meet on the second Saturday of every month at 2 pm in the Berwyn public library, if you'd ever want to join us.

That's a great story. Thank you for sharing it with us. I've found it very enjoyable and informative.

Ive been camping in millers meadow for the last month or so maybe i could drop by again and drop a little wisdom on you guys. who else is going? id be great to have some other aspies to hang out with, anyone else from WP? Also, would you mind if i brought a friend, Sketchmaster P. has been camping with me recently and South Harlem is kind of ghetto this time of year, so you know...