Which is your adjustment strategy of being different?

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I read in tony attwood book that people with aspergers have four strategies when they discover that they are different and because I love statistic I am curious to see which is the amount of people who have each strategy and the gender. My strategy when I discovered that I am different was the imagination and the fantastic friends

I don't understand what "adjustment strategy" means.

I had the arrogance when I was a kid. Actually, I think I went through an imagination phase at some point.

I feel like I've graduated from tactics like that though. (Maybe I became less different?)

When I was really young it was arrogance. When I was around ten that arrogance turned into depression.

I like Imagination myself.

I'm not too thrilled with Depression or Arrogance as an "adjustment strategy."

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Mine adjustment strategy growing up was imitation - but it progressively became depression, and is now.

E. None of the above.

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Imitation mostly - but slipping into depression if I get burned out. And arrogance when I've had too many beers!

Probably a little from all four, but if we're being entirely honest; arrogance.

What's that Jon Davis quote? "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."?

I have used all of these so I can't really vote for just one. Probably most prone to imagination.

I embraced it.

Right now? None of the above.

It's either my will or a loophole.

Arrogance is against to what wisdom I gained so far.
I'm done with depression, and I don't want acting skills to learn social skills.

Imagination? Sure. But I also prefer doing something out of it and not just thinking about it...

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imitation at first- of course that failed, then arrogance ["everybody's crazy 'cept for me- HMPH!" ] then when that could not be sustained, then the depression that results when it finally sinks in that everybody else is SANE except for you- then after marinating in the blues ooze for decades, then imagination which took place as soon as I could withdraw from society and become a hermit. in my own world now, I can be somewhat what I feel I should be, with the estimable company of me and myself.