Screw 'normal'

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Im pissed to beyond hell from reading new studies and new Asperger research projects and new 'Combat Autism' campaigns and who the hell knows what else.

YOU ARE NOT SICK! I AM NOT SICK!

repeat loudly "IM ASPIE AND IM PROUD"

I just cant take it anymore. If one more friend/associate tries to 'help' me by sending me data about how professionals are working so hard to solve this, and cure this, and treat that Im going bananas.

Has anyone seen a grant that funded a research project that wanted to understand how certain aspie's were capable of phenomenal musical feats, or capable of feeling another's pain as if it were their own, or how aspie's do any of the other amazing things we can do. Nope. No one wants to learn how to incorporate our positive elements into society to make it a better place, they just want to staighten us out so we can fly right.

Well I say screw em all forever more.

normal people afraid of the unknown
we " for them " are the unknown
they fear us , they hate us , they want to destroy us
how would I think positive out of this?

Not even sure if it's actually what I am yet... and is my normal reaction, I automatically think it's MY fault XD.


Of course I don't completely trust Anyone at all. I could say that my own social ineptitude prevents that. My own gullibility having been perveted into outright paranoia. Tired of people "taking me for rides," if you will.


Hey if anyone is getting tired of me I'll go. I would understand. I can be annoying as all hell(and have actually used this as a weapon on occasion.)

It seems to be genetically ingrained to oppress the minorities of the world in order to assert 'normalcy'. You got my full support NoCriminalIntent!

The funny thing is, the self proclaimend normals are not the ones who make a difference in the world, the first monkeys who left the trees, the first humans who left africa, went across the bering strait, the ones who leave everything for their dreams, the first people trying to fly, none of them were normal, normal is to be happy with mediocracy (median=norm), the females fighting for voting, the dreamers and revolutinaries, not normal, the buddha, jesus, not normal, newton, einstein, not normal.
If the norm had their way, I`d be picking lice from a fellow packmembers fur now, high in some tree in africa.

I'm neurotypical but I was always a nerd and considered weird. Here are ways I continue to be 'uncool'

- I don't drink alcohol. My idea of a good time is not getting drunk/suffering a hangover/vomiting
- I don't care how much I weigh. My life and self-esteem does not revolve around a number on the scales. I can't recite the calorific value of lots of foods.
- I don't follow fashion trends. Skinny jeans and tunic tops are currently 'in' but I think that people look really silly in them.
- When I was at school I studied hard - very uncool!
- When I was at university I studied hard - very uncool!

I'm sure I could rant on more.

I love my Aspie son and a lot of his 'weirdness' is just seeing things in a different way. In fact he comes up with brilliant ideas and he's only 7.

Smelena

Thats more and more how Im thinking. What if being so sensitive to things that they can spin you out of control is an evolutionary step. What if nature is trying to tell us that unless we start to become sensitive to all the noise, pollution, anger etc that there will never be a hope to change things. Maybe when we are driving in cars packed together and traveling fast, people are supposed to feel anxious as if they were in tanks ready to flip over, because traveling at 70 miles per hour in heavy metal objects isnt friggin normal in the only true sense of normal, as nature defines it.

WHAT IF WE ARE THE LAST HOPE FOR HUMANITY.

Ok thats a way too big stretch.

But unless scientists and other professionals start thinking outside the box, we will always be considered a problem to be solved. A problem trying to solve a problem that isnt a problem. Ad infinitum.

Whats an Aspie to do?

PS Thanks for the support Mitch.

And I think back to my youth were I spent more time hiding than playing, cause there had to be something wrong with me. I didnt want to fight other boys to show how tough I was. And if I got in a fight, and heaven forbid won, I would be depressed for the pain I inflicted on someone else. Yet I could get beat up mercilessly and the other guy would laugh and go off with the friends all buddy buddy and happy.

Im sure I had alot of brilliant ideas when I was 7, but I kept them to myself.

you're son is lucky to have your support.

I seldom think about what other people think of me personally. People aren't trying to solve AS as much as they are trying to solve low-funcitoning autism. I think researchers are trying to understand AS, but I shall not participate as a self-confessing zoo exhibit.

All social public behavior is just acting. The difference between us and NTs is that we don't naturally get it or have a desire to do it. I think if you look at it like that, without the emotions, it becomes an easier problem to solve in order to get along with others. Everyone has to do this type of social acting in public. It is simply much harder for us.

Parents and caregivers need to make aspie kids aware of it at a early age and do it without the emotional baggage of being defective.

Nikola Tesla was probably an ASpie. He invented Alternating Current, as opposed to Direct Current which his one time employer Thomas Edison kept insisting was the way of the future. Tesla died penniless, and largely forgotten. But his invention of A/C was a huge quantum leap forward for all of mankind. Edison bilked him out of thousands of dollars, and Westinghouse got him to sign a contract giving them the rights to A/C. I'm sure that if you take the time to research it, history is full of 'eccentric geniuses' who made a huge difference. Many of those 'eccentrics' fit the ASpie profile. If they invent a pill to cure us, who'll be around to help 'them' out ???

The good professor makes good points as usual. We all can't be brilliant, but we can use are interests to shine in our own areas. The real problem is that we have a big load of emotional baggage from being brought up and treated like our minds are NT. In the case of dino aspies, our parents/teachers were not aware of it and in the case of kids and teens, many times their parents can't conceive of thinking like we do.

We need to work on letting the negative emotions go and that will help immensely. Other people are ignorant and I'm not sure if we can educate them, but we can look at it from the perspective of their ignorance, not from a perspective of the aspie as a freak or defective person.

yes, screw normal indeed.

The so-called normal people are the younger people who spend all day, watching MTV.

*cough* Different not better.

Yeah, I know. Life long battle just to do that it seems.

This forum sure helps.

Yes, very true. Must keep reminding myself.