Does Wrong Planet Make You Feel Normal?

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I tell people it is not that I am weird, I was just born on the wrong planet. Somewhere out there is their someone like them born on my planet being called weird.

I think WP makes me feel more normal. A place to go and talk to people like me. People that I can relate to on some level or another.

How about you, do you feel more normal on WP?

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Idaho Aspie
www.AllThingsAspergers.com

Yes. I fit in on this planet. Not on Earth.

I'm AS/NT borderline, more on the NT borderline.

I am unsure if 'normal' is the proper word, but I do feel at home here. Plus, I have friends here and like WP HFA/Aspies/other, AND the topics, which are varied and diverse. I like that I can write what I am thinking (maybe originating from science stuff, etc) and not feel judged. Instead I see honest posts from insightful individuals each with different backgrounds but enough neuro commonalities that we make sense to each other. I answered yes.

Depends on what you mean by "normal." I can't say I've ever felt normal anywhere.

I know other parents understand our family life and don't judge me.

I love WP!

Helen

I feel more normal in the context of this group here, than elsewhere in the world.

This place rocks!

I'm really self-conscious
& a dino-aspy computer-illiterate
I've never posted on any other internet forum but here
i voted no

I dont think it makes me feel normal, but it defintely makes me feel welcome, and more comfortable then any other place i've been.

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Being Normal Is Vastly Overrated

Normal is a strange word to me and I wouldn't classify myself as it so location makes no change to the classification.

I know I'm not the same as others around me at work and home but does that make me abnormal?

Here I also am very aware that who I am is not normal but I am amongst those who are similar to me.

If anything, the more I come here the more I realise that who I am is far from the norm.

More normal? You're assuming that within this beingness there is a smidgen of normalcy. Highly doubtful. I take away depression and self-loathing when I log off. That should give you an inkling..

Normal?...No.

Welcomed and accepted?...Yes.

I said yes.

Not for the fact that it makes me feel "normal" in the sense of an NT.

It makes me feel normal as in that I am not somehow different from everybody I am interacting with. I can be myself, react the way that comes naturally too me, and pursue the thoughts as they come to me and not have to force them in strange ways to be accepted.

Normal is, as normal does.

What I am about to say may come out wrong. Almost everyone here has the 2 basic problems I have. Many have other problems I have. Most others have still others.

At times, I feel like the proverbial one eyed man in the land of the blind. Of course there ARE times when I feel like one of the few blind in the kingdom that can see.

Oh well, I can take solace in the fact that I am better understood here(I THINK), and some can relate to me almost like they know EXACTLY what I am going through.

I voted yes, but I wouldn't say it makes me feel normal exactly: it makes me feel I have something to relate to. I don't feel like I'm in my own orbit so much.