Don't know what I am.

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And just WHAT is wrong with being assimilated? It's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Wouldn't that be it's the best thing that ever happened to us? Or do the Borg support individuality?

The thing about aspergers is, like any condition, some people are more affected than others. The reason most people with aspergers constantly questions themselves is because outside they look relatively normal and usually do manage to fit in on the periphery of normality.

My parents don't believe it, most of my friends don't believe it. If you think you have it, and you have ran through the criteria (remember this is the same criteria that professional psychologists use to diagnose AS) then you probably have it.

Don't worry about what your mother thinks. Having aspergers explains to me why I am the way I am. I don't really care what anyone else thinks and I don't care if they believe me or not. They don't have to put up with the problems associated with it. They don't have to spend hours analysing conversations. They don't learn smalltalk.

When your mother hears the word "ASPERGERS" she thinks of autism. She thinks of the film "RAIN MAN". She doesn't think "STEPHEN SPIELBERG". Next time you are watching a film by the latter, ask your mother if she thinks he doesn't have it too and that he is just gifted rather than aspergic. For that matter, ask her if she thinks Leonardo DaVinci was just gifted and not aspergic, ask her if she thinks Bill Gates is just gifted. There are so many people in society that have achieved greatness even though they have aspergers that I am proud to stand with them. Luckily for us, people like this are coming out and saying they have aspergers. They are burning a torch for the rest of us. OH.... whilst I am name dropping.... Ask her if she thinks Einstein is also just gifted and that he didn't have aspergers.

And remember, most of these historically gifted people didn't self diagnose, the professionals of today have diagnosed them based on historical facts and personal accounts.

(Funny, because I told her that Stephen Spielberg had AS. Her response was: "Oh, so now you want to be like Stephen Spielberg?"

Which was totally off the point, but her response completely derailed my train of thought and I couldn't think up a suitable reply in time.)

The main thing is, she's a teacher; she's taught several Aspie kids before, and she says I'm not like them. Apparently they're 'very strange' and not at all like me... There was one who would weekly memorise all the questions on a gameshow and rattle them off to her the next day without fail, refusing to leave until she had answered them.

I told her about the echolalia thing which I did - sometimes I tend to mouth words that I've just said or read or heard other people saying - but she says they're talking about people who go around repeating everything that others say.

On the other hand, I just found out that some Aspies like watching ceiling fans spin, and when I was younger, I used to have a strange fascination with the ceiling fan in my grandparents' house. I especially liked to see how it slowly picked up speed when you turned it on, and then slowly came to a stop when you turned it off... The fascination's passed, though. Ceiling fans no longer raise any kind of interest in me.