AS and self-awareness (please read with personal discretion)

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I don't know if I understood all this, anyway, where I live everybody hangs a litle cloth at the body and say are dressed, than it is ok

They may be your parents, they may be your landlords, but neither gives them the right to barge in and invade your privacy unannounced. (At least, in Canada a landlord must give a tenant 24-hours notice to enter a rented unit uninvited, unless it is a genuine emergency. Like if a pipe burst or the building is on fire or something.)

Frankly, whether they rented to you or a complete stranger, whether their tenant walks around fully clothed, nude, semi-nude, or dressed in a pink Tarzan outfit is really none of their business.

Hi there, I just found this second page to the thread.

Xenon, are you reading this?

Are you under the impression my parents have barged into my unit?

If you are, you are quite mistaken! I already stated that they have not now nor will they ever do such a thing.

I volunteered this information to them about a month ago over the phone. They had recently moved into a new place after 35 years in another house. I was stressed about their move.
I said I had started going nude around the apartment because it helped alleviate my stress.

I could be mistaken Xenon, but I hope you're not bent out of shape!

Goodness gracious, not at all. But if they aren't going to ever barge in on you unannounced, then why would you be worried about what you wear or don't wear when you're alone at home?

(I will admit that I missed the earlier post. Oops.)

Hi Xenon and Merle:

If you're both there, here are my latest comments. Thank you for reading!

I'm not concerned about going nude around the apartment. I think I started this thread because I'm trying to figure out how to tell my mom my plans.

I want to go to the Solair Recreation League this summer. It is a local camp at the other end of my state of Connecticut.

No need to be embarrassed, Xenon.

Merle, you seem to think there is more to Asperger Syndrome than the mirror neuron system. Would you like to expand on that?

I read that Steven Spielberg has AS just like we do. I would like to hear his thoughts on it!

Thanks again for reading!

Jay

Ah. Now I get it.



Tell her you're going camping with friends.

Hi Xenon,

Thank you for reading and thank you for the suggestion.

I will tell you a little bit more. Maybe that will help this conversation. I promise this is the absolute truth.

I am a 37-year-old man. Everyone I see regularly knows there is something different about me, although they have not attached AS to it. They all know I don't have friends the way they do.

I am guessing you are another man with AS. You've probably figured out one of the singularly most inconvenient (and possibly) dangerous aspects of AS is the power of speech.

People hear me talk (especially adults) and they want me to say the things they are used to hearing. If an AS person speaks, and the other [non-AS] person does not like what he or she hears, then the AS person might be considered a villain.

I wish all human beings talked in black-and-white.

This is great, I believe NTs are cloudy people.

Hi neuromancer,

Thank you for reading. I didn't realize English was spoken in your country of Brazil.

I think I have just said something I needed to say for a long time.

Sometimes I wonder if we AS people should start a country of our own.

I don't dislike NT people. My own two parents are NT people!

I just find myself wondering sometimes how many ways people think they can be double-crossed, especially in the NT community!

Most people I meet in person like me, because I hardly say things they consider controversial.

Jay

Hi thecartoonist,
As you can see english is not really spoken here. I don't know if a hole AS country would really be good, although I can see both AS and NT traits at some governamental institutions.
I don't dislike NT people too, but I wish a world more rational than it is, what means more aspie. I think power is antagonic to reason, and meanwhile power is NT, reason is AS.
Hm... I probably say many controversial things, what they probably dislike... well I've been thinking in thigs like this, and should probably change my own way, but I don't feel myself honest doing that... well...
But the black and white words are great, I really don't like their cloudy way, that is the way I think I refer to the same.

Hi Neuromancer,

Thank you for writing back.

Maybe you're right. Maybe a whole AS country could get a little out of sorts. I've just posted messages on another site, and it taught me how amazing it is that people can take messages of any type out of context.

If NT people can take things out of context [greatly], then we AS people probably can too.

I've written my thoughts down for years, attempting to figure out how to get into groups and how not to get expelled from groups.

One thing I am sure of: Every single human being who has ever lived on this planet is responsible for his or her own actions.

From Jay

Hi thecartunist,
it is easy for NTs to get their context, and they are always at their own right context. I believe that, in fact, they have a kind of collective soul, that is one and the same for all of them, what makes it easy for them to get the same context, meanwhile I stay conjecturing for so long about the meaning of words such that: "this", or "it", or even worst: "that", when I am talking to NTs, although they all know the meaning of such mysterious words.

Well, we are all really responsible for our own acts, although at the same measurement that we can comprehend it.

Be happy

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately too many people have forgotten this.

BTW, I checked out the web site of the place you said you wanted to go to. Looks like a nice place.

Hi, thanks for reading!

Yes, Solair Recreation League does look like a nice place. I ordered and received a DVD from them a few months ago!

From Jay