Like to be the NT they think you are?

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For those who refuse to believe you have ASD, do you wish that you was the NT they think you are.

Sometime I wish I were the NT that my ex-girlfriend thinks I am. I would not be a wiz at programming, intelligent and I would not have any integrity at all. But at least I wouldn’t have any trouble finding a date minus the STD that I might catch sleeping around like what she thought I was up to.

I would like to be the NT my workmate think I am. Despite being innocently ignorant, non street wise, not smart enough to do simple things like change the front brake pads on a car.

I would be full of confidence not scared of chatting up any girl and all of my problem would go away only if I wouldn’t be so stupid and take my pills every day as they are not only anti-depressents but mood altering drugs too.

I gave up on wishing I was someone else.
Being someone else ment I wasnt me, and since it would be me doing the wishing.. seeing the loop there?

I wouldnt trade myself for anything

Anything I could conjure up would be more 'sarcasm' then anything

i wouldn't want to be someone else,
being understood a little more yes,
to change no, i find myself too interesting,
i'm curious what i'll become, not really
in a selfish way, but my life is so unusual
that i'd like to know where it is heading to.

but then again, my husband is definitely not an nt,
not an asperger either,he's some kind of gifted person
not interested in social contact and more lost in this
world than i am for the moment.

i must admit that before i heard about asperger,
i was trying to fit this nt-image, feeling somehow
this would always remain a failure,
and now it is a great relief to let this image go, knowing that
it'll never work out. at the same time it creates a lot of
chaos as well, what does it mean , admitting myself to be myself?
and from this confusion i understand your desire, to be as most people are,
so much more references

but is happiness linked to being nt ?
i doubt it strongly

No. Mankind is something to be surpassed and overcome. Go one better.

I wished I was like everyone else all my life, and always failed - I can't change who I am, and this I believe has been the cause of my depression and anxiety.

No more, though. I have decided to accept me for the way I am: yes, I'm awkward, socially and physically, and yes, I can really care more about my own projects and interests than people around me, and yes, I'm very naive. But so what? I don't know anyone who can absorb language and words the way I can. I don't know anyone with a memory for facts like mine. I don't know anyone as guileless as myself, and I don't know anyone who has the focus and drive that I have when I'm interested in something.

Why change? Why want to change?

I'm happy to be who I am. If I was NT I wouldn't see the colors in the sounds, won't think up my unusual philosophy and witty remarks. I wouldn't know that I wanted to a comedian for the rest of my life. I wouldn't know who I am. I'd be lost.

Well, I don't think I'll ever be quite cool enough until I've got the exoskeleton and the gills.

They're musts.

*giggles*

I wouldn't.

I'd hate to be that simple.


I wouldn't mind being generally better though.

:) Sounds good to me. I'm flawed as heck in both typical and atypical ways but I'm not convinced I'm any worse than most people. If I'm going to make an ideal to wish for it certaintly 'normality'. How boring!

Drowning medusa,

WELL SAID!

I'm kind of jealous! I USED to be like that. 8-( Today, I am fluent in one language, semi fluent in two others, and trying to flesh out 3 others, in addition to building up those 2. They cover 2 alphabets(latin and devanagari), 2 major language families, and only like 3 language groups.

Anyway, I'm trying to get back to that point. That is part of the reason for studing the languages. The fact that they cover about 1/2 the worlds population is good also.

I'm with you though. I wouldn't want to give up the good even to become more social. Even NTs seem to have problems with that anyway. The things that REALLY kill me are like my stupid response to a woman at a local drug store. OH BOY! In retrospect, I think she was trying to suggest that I ask her out.

Steve

*scratches head*
*looks at Xuincherguixe and Griff and wonders what joke she's missing this time*

I don't get it either

Bizarre, you have the most disgustingly cute avatar I've ever seen

I don't think there's anything really to get. It's just one of those things I find funny.