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28 Aug 2006, 3:30 pm

BelaLugosi wrote:
I'm only 14, but heres what I did. For a long time, I knew I was an Aspie, but I told very few people. Then one day I just said the hell with it and gave a presentation on it in class. That was a lot of people who then understood why I was so wierd, they started telling a few of their friends. Noe that big chunk of people know, I tell anyone who asks, but I don't just bring it up out of the blue. I don't have to deal with employers yet, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I know you don't have the option of talking to classmates, but if there's some other way you can let a large number of people know at once, thats what I'd recommend.


as ive just wriiten my own introduction a few after this thread and am just reading back through these.

I dont know what to say to you BelaLugosi other than wonderful! well done. I cant have thought of a betterway to initiate a group of people. obviously they all had your undivided attention too as when you started to presen it they thought "here we go" the class weirdos gonna bore us. so well done im so proud that we aspies out there have a heart and mind. ive personally been a good "life guide" to some of the few close attachements ive made in my social circles and it used to bewider me how other people always seemed to get on and yet were so confused over their side of the life and yet I could help them get over with with my wise words and standpoint. so being a teacher is very good at what ever level.
well done again!

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29 Aug 2006, 2:57 am

BelaLugosi wrote:
I'm only 14, but heres what I did. For a long time, I knew I was an Aspie, but I told very few people. Then one day I just said the hell with it and gave a presentation on it in class. That was a lot of people who then understood why I was so wierd, they started telling a few of their friends. Noe that big chunk of people know, I tell anyone who asks, but I don't just bring it up out of the blue. I don't have to deal with employers yet, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I know you don't have the option of talking to classmates, but if there's some other way you can let a large number of people know at once, thats what I'd recommend.


I did a presentation in Year 7, but didn't cover Aspergers down to the smallest detail. People left me alone for a while and then I got a bit disruptive since someone was still calling me a boffin. (Now I just say "Thank you" and take it as a compliment) Then Year 8 came, and since I had changed drastically to this conforming figure, people just couldn't accept it and made fun of me. Also, I may have insuilted some people without actually knowing it. I didn't cover that in the presentation.



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19 Nov 2006, 9:03 pm

i also struggle a bit telling friends about being an asperger,
most of them say it is not true, and it is difficult to convince them.
they did (and do )express/admit (in the past) that i'm quite weird

they invent reasons for my social failures (esp work) and picture me as
an artistic soul and someone suffering the loss of her mother,
which is a quite romantic image of course but it doesn't explain
my difficulties and certainly not why i feel as i do in a group (with the parents
in the playground is the most difficult one)

one of the reasons they don't like the asperger-thing is because they don't like
'labels' and i must admit, neither do i

but the asperger concept does explain too many things ...
i wonder whether i should try to get a diagnose, but i don not really see the point in doing so.



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25 Nov 2006, 5:08 pm

deep-techno wrote:
Well, you could just say "My brain is a bit different from; it causes me to excel in certain aspects while not being as good at others."


That's similar to what I say.


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