Are you broken?

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Do you see yourself as broken because your mind works differently? Your mind doesn't work like the way it's supposed to? etc.


Sometimes I feel broken like my brain needs to be fixed because its malinfunctioning (sp). You know how machines are and electronic stuff and when they don't work right, they get fixed. Sometimes thigns can't be fixed so you throw it away. With humans, you have to live with it.


When I fail to read between the lines or fail to detect emotions from people or read people just because my brain didn't tell me how that person is feeling because I didn't feel it, I feel my brain is broken because it doesn't work right like the way it's supposed to. I feel my brain is malfunctioned. Sometimes I can feels people's feelings and lot of the times I can't so sometimes that part of my brain works. I wonder if that's how NTs mind works, feeling people's feelings so that's how they know how someone else is feeling.
I feel that way about my aspie traits too. Sometimes I am rigid, most times I am not. Sometimes I'm inflexible and sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I talk to people and have normal conversations and sometimes I do not. My brain works NT off and on. Funny eh.


My parents don't see me a broken and view me as being fixed when they took me to therapies, worked with me to change the way my brain works, they got rid of my dyspraxia because I outgrew it but they don't see it as me being fixed. To them fixing me means changing who I am, not helping me so I have a good life and live a normal adult life. They wanted me to be successful and independent so they worked with me when I was a kid so I be a better person. They didn't see that as fixing.


My boyfriend's definition of broken is being dead. His definition of fixing someone is bringing them back to life.

I ain't broke, I just badly bent.

I'm not broken.

In some ways I am, in others I'm ok.

...not broken, but built for a different application...Pipe wrenches are not designed to hammer in nails, so I don't claim my pipe wrench is broken when it doesn't drive a nail particularly well

This is a good way to put it.

No, I don't see myself as broken. It doesn't seem right, given that none of the people I've met had no problems, or was able to do absolutely anything (which is also apparently true for any person in the world). So why should I see myself as flawed? It doesn't make sense. Everyone's good at different things to a different extent, that's what makes the world so interesting and diverse.

The very word "broken" , when used for a person, kind of makes me cringe.

I am bloody, but unbowed.


Merle

Ha! Good one!

Broken? Nah. Just different.

Perfect response, you beat me to the point. I'm not broken, I just have a different purpose in life.

Ditto.

Not really broken. Just need regular oil changes.

Im not broken, I was just put together in an unconventional manner

That's a good one.

I'm not broken, but when I was 20 I would have answered that differently. KNOWING the reason you 'are the way you are' goes a long way to fixing that 'broken' feeling. Especially if you can find some good friends who are like you. When I was 20, it was still almost 20 years until anybody in America would have a clue there was anything called "Asperger's". The broken feeling doesn't go away overnight either. It can take years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqpzVn9mHA