I may be an AS. My oldest sure thinks so. I was once given an autobio by an aspie and he was nothing like me. He couldn't look people in the eyes and was a wiz working with his hands. I have no problem looking people in the eye and I don't like working with my hands. I have been told that it is a mild version of autism with various subtypes (such as no eye contact). I thought then "If it is mild with several types maybe we are just describing different personalities as a syndrome. But I fell that some of you have had similar experiences in life as me and it would be nice to not feel alone so here I am. I was in special ed (ADHD)for 10 of my 12 years of grade school, junior high and high which obviously affected my social development as I was not with "normal kids" then went to college and grad school. In college I thought that my past was behind but I now understand that my family didn't think so as evidenced by their abnormal celebration after the "I do's" at wedding. I guess they thought this abnormal man would never marry. ret*d men usually do not marry. The bride's family observed this and warned her that something was up. After 10 years we divorced and we now have a 10 year old son. I believe that my ex-wife and my two older brothers do not respect me as a full fledged adult (my ex-wife has asked me never to talk with my son's teachers for example). I can imagine that ret*d adults have similar experiences.
Labels and diagnoses aside, I feel that others are different than me. They have less logical capacity and make decisions emotionally. However they can pick up on things intuitively that I need to use the logical part of my brain to understand.
Has anyone out there had similar experiences?
30 Dec 2014, 12:43 am
