1. Nice quiet kid 2. Started feeling pretty alienated/left out/"just plain wrong" 3. Started hating everyone else (ie NTs) and writing them off as stupid, shallow, etc 4. Realized that #3 was unsustainable 5. Basically just started mimicking (monkey see, monkey do) and was shocked at the success 6. Started despising everyone else even more for being so stupid and easy to manipulate 7. Realized that #6 wasn't sustainable either 8. Presently: Kind of just tired of it all but resigned to it, still sometimes think of it as a kind of parlor trick--"Here, watch this, I bet I can get them to {fill in the blank}" or "I bet this is where I say/do {fill in the blank}" kind of thing. and people wonder why the rate of suicide amongst people with asperger's syndrome is so high.
Aw... I know two people with aspergers, they're both in my class. One has it heavy and doesn't really get anything social. The other has it slight, he's just kinda annoying but I guess he's alright. He fits in though, with his friends. Neither of 'em fit your definition.
it only fits one specific axis, (as the person who wrote it absolutely realizes, I've seen the other stuff he's written) but, yeah, there is a lot of misanthropy in the community.
yep. everyone expects you to know how they are feeling, and how their processes work and it is like you are on the outside of this great secret society that is secret not because it's a secret, but because pretty much no one in it knows how to explain what makes it work it sucks.
the more i read about AS the more i'm sure i'm an aspie... only one of my therapist thinks so.. and she brought it up..
Okay, well, Asperger's Syndrome (AS) is a form of Autism, and Neurotypical (NT) is a normal functioning brain, basically.
Odd. With the people I knew who had AS, it was the exact opposite. They were easy to manipulate and never got anything social.
it's a certain axis, a certain perspective. it's a different perspective from what people are used to. that's why I shared it.
One of my relatives people were saying that another relative may be AS. I actually I think they meant AS-SHOLE. He's just a rude,belligerent prick. All AS ain't like that?Are they?
No sirreee. Like Carl said, some of them are really easy to manipulate and not social. They're definitely not all the same.
Thanks So, Dave- you're saying AS ways of feeling and thinking are so different from NT ways of feeling/thinking that there is no translation between them? In other words; color to a blind man or relating three-dimensional experience in 2D?