Can we reach the "others"?

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We have the word, we can write, do some kind of work, travel at some extent, learn things like the language we have learnt as children, though with some ret*d. We are not fluent in relating with others. But there are label for this: “shy”, “loner”, “introvert”, “self centered”, a little bizarre, eccentric and so on. All this labels are in fact an obstacle to let ourselves be understood really. Our experience of life is abysmally different from the way other people, with whom we are forced to coexist in many practical ways, live their lives. The labels I quoted are a way to skim, to elude our problems. To brush them away. One solution may seem to vindicate our diversity, with the help of a new scientifically validated label: “Asperger” “autistic”: we take cover under a “syndrome”. “Syndromes” are respected, if not understood in their existential impact. So we remain alone in our bubbles or burrows. Is there some piece of NT’s experience of life where we can mix and be understood?

Lost to know how you think that most people think mental illness is a disease - people that should be locked up - kept away from going out - stopped from going out side - sitting at the window watching the kid's play outside? I would say putting under this As is worse than been called the other stuff.

I am a human been I don't want to be treated any differently to the next person with physical conditions - that stop them from fully been in life as Nt's with nothing wrong with them or so they think - but do we get screened for everything.

How many people have been in hospital and had they blood took * all they do is check it to what there looking for - they don't do a full scan of everything coz it cost's money....

I am a person I am no different - just people with the way they view thing's - call people name's just to make themselves feel better, attacking something they don't understand...

I would rather be called shy than As, I don't go round shouting I have As just to excuse the way I am - I expect them to respect me for been different, So to hide behind As no - I don't but it is a fact that I am under this syndrome of mental health...

Sorry but I don't agree....

Maybe in music, movies, mathematics, philospophy, art and literature.
We can experience and take joy in these aspects of life. We can express ourselves through such media, or communicate our views on an equal level with NTs, eg. discussion of the recent 'Borat' movie.
Outside of this, i find understanding ( and mixing) difficult.

EDIT: Sporting events are also areas in which we can participate in the same way as NTs.

I fully agree with this; it just depends on whom you're trying to relate to.
For example, if you're looking to relate to someone who is NT and they're a movie fan, as Kosmonaut pointed out, go with that.
It's only the depth, or the passion, that is different between an Aspie and an NT when it comes to interests, it seems.