An analogy for Asperger's Syndrome.

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I came up with an interesting analogy for what it feels like to have AS. I feel like I am the only one on the outside of a cage, inside of which everyone is having the greatest party of all (and they are all in pairs). They cannot get out (even thought they probably don't really care to) and I cannot get in. I desperately want to go in and have fun but there is no way for me to get in. I am forced to watch while everyone else gets to enjoy themselves. Yet at the same time I know they are prisoners while I am free. It gives me a chance to think of other possibilites out there (even though I can see nothing else but the cage and everyone having fun inside). I feel that I am different, something else, something better, superior but I STILL want to join them. Alas, this is my curse.

I feel exactly the same about being on the outside, unable to get in. I also feel free in some ways, like being able to question social conventions. But I don't feel superior. Just different.

I always see a little boy with his nose lightly touching a window, but I am seeing him from the inside while realizing he is actually myself looking in.

Being brilliant does not make someone superior.

Alien perspectives analogy.

I've been playing the outsider role since 5 , by standing aside, as in 'looking in over the shoulders'-- always thinking about the various mechanisms of our existence.

There seems to be a place in the 'high country of the mind' that isn't reached or traveled on by most everyday folk.

I've noted some personal strengths, and deficits such as bonding.

My analogy is that if Everyone is a computer. I'm a super computer with no mouse. Sure i can process everything ten times faster, but it takes me an hour to figure out how to empty the recycling bin, and i had to devolpe special simple software just to interact easily with other computers.

Don't get the wrong idea here folks. I didn't mean to come off as saying I'm superior. I feel like that SOMETIMES, but it is just my way of making myself feel better since I have incredible frustrations trying to get a sex life and whatnot. Kind of a self-defense measure.

Don't take it personally, but I'm not really "feeling" this analogy. I don't feel everyone else is having more fun than me. I have my ways of having fun, they have theirs. My kind of fun revolves around pursuing my special interests. Theirs may revolve around other things. A couple of years ago I learned French, and then I went to the French-speaking part of Switzerland and I could understand what everyone was saying. That, for me, is fun. I also love animals. Finding a tortoise in the desert and following it around for a couple of hours to see what it does is extremely fun.