HAPPINESS IS

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... being back at WP after many years away. I can see more advanced thinking in recent posts about autistic people being a separate species to NTs. No longer willing to accept that we are inferior or disabled because we are not like them. Just because there are more of them - they are the norm of the normal curve - does not make them superior. We both have different attributes and different roles to play in the world. It has taken me my entire lifetime of 70 years to be able to see this and to be finally able to accept who i am.

I wouldn't go so far as to say we are a separate "species." But, IMO, we do need to get serious about building a separate, much bigger and better-organized autistic subculture than now exists, eventually to include more and more autistic-friendly workplaces, so that as many of us as possible can get jobs and focus on productive work rather than drive ourselves crazy trying to blend in with NTs.

In a world designed to process people on an assembly line (particularly children), conformity to the norm can be brutal. People who were fatter, skinnier, taller, shorter, left-handed, or otherwise physically different than the norm had their own difficulties.

The idea the neuro-diversity would pose similar problems to mass processing has only recently been considered.

We are still called "disordered", by those who attempt to process us. However, we can take some comfort that those who declare us "disordered" may not be correct.

Happiness is just an emotion.


There are five emotions

Happiness is overrated by society

Happiness is not magic, mystery or special

The assembly-line approach to educating children may have been an economic necessity between the advent of the industrial age and the advent of the computer age. But now, in the age of computers, it should be possible to educate kids in a highly individualized way, via educational video games rather than via a traditional classroom.

Happiness is being true to myself, no matter what.

Thank you everybody for your feedback. I can't help it. I feel HAPPY! It's been happening a lot lately. Ever since i finished 6 months of weekly one hour Emotionally Focused Therapy sessions. It shifted a lot of stuff. Who would ever have thought i could ever feel HAPPY?! It's a great feeling.

It’s cool to be happy

happiness is a warm bun. with pulled BBQ pork and cheddar cheese inside. in a non-gustatory sense, happiness is the absence of pain and want. the first definition is far easier to meet than the second.

Happiness is:

Seeing my cats
Playing tennis, and watching it too (especially Nadal, Federer and Istomin)
Toastmasters
Church and related activities
Work

All in all, I have a great variety of experiences. Even though I am not successful in the traditional sense for a person my age, I am working hard to function as normally as possible.

As i said at the start of this post i believe people with autism are a different species of human beings to neurotypicals. So we should not compare ourselves negatively with them. We are not inferior but different. Put on this planet Earth for a different purpose. I will do more posts about this. The first as Planetary Anthropologist.