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I'm 21, got diagnosed a few days ago. At first I was glad to put a name to my wierdness and inability/insufficiant desire to maintain conections or be emotionally intimate, now I'm feeling a bit of a leper though, I can't understand this Aspie Pride as anything other than pride for prides sake. I respect that everyones experience is very different but for me having to intellectualize feelings in order to deal with them and communicate humanly with other people is like trying to eat peas with a knife. I'm usually ok at picking up social ques (Australia isn't known for extrodinary displays of subtlety) I just can't deal with them spontaniously or give them out with integrity or do anything other than panic and shutdown when they're directed at me or feel anything much that isn't a thought about a feeling and the only honest comfortable relationships I have are with my notebooks and my cat. how is being a robot person not a disability?

Hi Shabobcat,

Welcome to WP

Nice to meet you, Shabobcat.

G'day! I'm glad you're here.
The pride is for the positive strengths most of us possess. For instance, I do better than most NTs going into foreign cultures because I've had so much practice watching my culture and trying to figure out the rules and how to fake fitting in. My desire to learn and research is making me useful in Rwanda. (Oh, I guess I should say here that I am American from the state of Washington, upper northwest corner of USA)
The crippling parts can be worked with or around now that you are aware.

cool, another aussie.

Australia is definitely a nice place to be an Aspie.

As for Pride for prides sake. Pride is for the sake of self-esteem. Self-esteem being the value that Pride is the virtue that accomplishes it.
And Aspie Pride; that's more to do with throwing off the shackles of the third party rules of existence handed down to us by a world geared to neurotypicality, learning to accept the attributes that reality has given us, and working from that base.

Welcome to WP!

Welcome to WrongPlanet!

All good and valid points, I particularly like

Hi and welcome to the Aspie community...

Hi and Welcome - I'm from Sydney.

I'm an aspie and proud of it.

Why....

1. Because I don't like the way a lot of NTs act, and I'm glad not to be that way.
2. My aspergers gives me advantages that NTs don't have - memory etc.
3. You have to find inner balance and be happy with yourself in order to survive.

there's no cure - nor is there ever likely to be - so you have to learn to live with it - even ... enjoy it.

Welcome Shabobcat.
I know what you mean about the 'Aspie Pride' aspect. If I was normal I wouldn't go
about proclaiming 'Normal Pride' ! I think as long as people do things they can be proud of it's more important than what they supposedly are.

Welcome.
It has its ups, it has it downs. Some of your good traits may come from autism, but you may not attribute them to autism.
If you function on a primarily logical level, then your logic won't be clouded by emotion.

loving that t-shirt

to respond to quartermass, I write, I read, I'm a glutton for stories so if anyones got some origional scribbles they don't mind sharing send 'em through, When I'm at home in Melbourne I love live music and pubs and plays when not broke but I'm crashing at my parents in the country for a few mounths so I'm all about walking on the beach going "mmm... pungent aroma of seaweed" walking around the farms and hills going "mmm... pungent aroma of cowshit" and walking around the bush going "mmm... pungent aroma of koala"