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15 May 2010, 6:09 pm

Greetings and so forth. Not sure what to say here, but I don't expect that to be an uncommon problem. I guess that's why I'm so wordy, it eats up the clock. I also ramble sometimes and go off topic.

Nothing new under the sun, I'm sure.

Anyway, My name is Jake, I'm 27, soon to be 28, and I'm basically trying to break out of my routine a little bit without it costing me my sanity. I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome thirteen years ago. I find it really funny that the site spellchecker doesn't recognize Aspergers.

Let me ask something, fellow autistic folk: Do the neurotypicals around you (friends, family, etc) ever talk about being "connected"? The quotes aren't my own, you can hear them when my parents use the word. They talk like there's some unseen, magical benefit to being "connected" with people. As someone who has a great deal of difficulty talking to someone for no reason (it took me forever to get around to registering and posting on this site), I feel like I'm missing something, because sometimes I feel like the only reason to "connect" with people is because that's what the normies do all the time and I'm supposed to be like them. I know that it isn't it, but it feels like that sometime.

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15 May 2010, 6:15 pm

YakovHarkonnen wrote:

Let me ask something, fellow autistic folk: Do the neurotypicals around you (friends, family, etc) ever talk about being "connected"?

Yup, and often go out of the way to keep me and my children disconnected, because we're "different". It's called bullying.

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15 May 2010, 8:06 pm

Welcome to WrongPlanet, and welcome to my time warp.

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15 May 2010, 9:17 pm

Greetings, Jake, and welcome to the Wrong Planet.

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16 May 2010, 5:58 am

Hello Jake, welcome, enjoy your stay on the Wrong Planet!

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17 May 2010, 4:05 pm

Welcome to WrongPlanet - you'll feel connected here.

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17 May 2010, 4:57 pm

To WrongPlanet!! !

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21 May 2010, 5:12 pm

Well I am not even sure what connect really mean, dose that meen writing to another human being? If that it than yea I connected. If it means feelins and caring about people, I am not sure. I would reather stay disconnected than get hurt, and teased.

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21 May 2010, 5:17 pm

welcome to wp

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22 May 2010, 6:12 am

Lost1 wrote:

No, I mean that you'll belong here.

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