AS Identity?

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I thought about limiting myself to aspies
but considering I have never met one...
kinda puts a damper on my plan

indeed, and have u checked aspie affection, the ratio is like 1 women to 5 guys, depressing stats.

when I met other Aspies (real, bona fide diagnosed Aspies) at an Adult Aspie get together, I, of course, tried to evaluate ME opposed to THEM, and I admit I was horrified by my discoveries. I had NO IDEA what I had been projecting to other people (read: NTs) all my life!
I found that living with a lifetime of NTs had warped my ideas of how to present yourself in public. I realized I was a horrible snob.

Yikes!

hey, don't rely on those stats. ..I have tried to contact most of those males over 50 years old only to find they are dummy accounts, just there to pad the site.

it was meh to me
like less then 10 people in my country
nowhere near my city

(and sinsboldly, I have always been made to feel AS was an excuse and not a good thing-I have no pride in it-I have been told to stop doing the aspie things I do and be normal)
I will be f****d for at least a few more years

lol, i think having AS is part of who i'am as an individual,but ill never change my ways to please NT's or stop doing my" behaviors". some NT friends of my mom think i can learn to be normal. they're wrong because they don't know whats its like having a permanant condition.

my family are the same they think I can be normal
I can learn
it frusterates me to no end

I always find this amazing. Frankly, I have always wondered why I think differently, pick up some things SO fast, and have TONS of trivia, etc... And SOME of that trivia is used to remember things, or com up with nice ideas, etc... So NOW I KNOW! People sometimes ask me "How do you know so much?" "How can you remember that?", etc... So now I have an "excuse". Whatever! I STILL say the same thing I always did! "WHO KNOWS?" "GOT ME?" "I JUST DO!"

And I wish I never changed. I would LOVE to be like the kid in "THE KID", a bruce willis film.

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i feel like a kid most of the time and ill probably never stop acting youthful.

I am always told to act my age
though am never treated as such

i dont really notice my aspergers, to me i feel normal so id have to say no

people can be so weird, im not treated as an adult either.

no, I am not treated as an adult, either. People just think I am to be "utilized" like I have no actual life like they do, so I am there to serve them, or something.
It is really annoying and they are always blindsided by my anger or refusal. .

Merle

Yes.

Good one! Now I want to change my name to 'deadparrot' or 'fishlicense'.

I don't really tell people I am capable of being formally labeled autistic, and when I do they think I am joking. People think I am just eccentric. "Oh its Adam, he's just really creative and odd"

I have never been formally diagnosed, and don't think that is a solution either, so it's not on my list of things to do.

Frankly, my father was a disciplinary, and he beat a lot of my odd unacceptable behaviours out of me (spazzing, lying there whining when I didn't get my way). And if I was ever overwhelmed by a social situation he would tell me to toughen up. Any negative/kidlike autistic behaviours or traits I had as a kid I guess they thought I would eventually grow out of them, and I have been.


Now I think that it has to be written in the constitution that parents ought to beat their kids, even a little.

So I would have to say no to that one.