fellow aspies.... How I have longed for you.

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Hi zyban, and welcome!
I'm very new here too, and I still have the same fresh memory you must have, how nice it is to finally meet a group of people that you totally understand.

Not quite as fast, but it doesn't require a lot more effort for me. I tend to read the same newspaper people opposite to me at a table are reading. Gotta stop myself from asking them to turn back when I wasn't finished with an article (kidding). But I always assumed everybody was more or less able to read text upside down? (That's a real question; I don't know and I certainly don't want to offend you. Being new to everything of AS there are probably many symptoms or, as I like to call them "common features" I haven't discovered yet.)

I was taken with the title of your welcome message. For most of my life, in isolation with my condition, I fell into that self-centered attitude that I was the "only one" who was different in the way that aspies are different. So much so that I stopped considering myself "human" a long time ago; it is a mannerism that I continue with today, because it amuses me; to me "human" is a derogatory term. It is, in a way, comforting to find others not entirely unlike myself; there are many people here with beautiful minds, as you will discover. As with so-called "neuron-typicals", so to is there a wondrous variety of diversity amongst so-called "aspies". Explore it; savor it.

I have ninja-like reflexes; or, as I like to put it, Jack Burton reflexes. They've saved my life, more than once. Though, I do have some "troubled spots" where I am overly clumsy. For example, for the life of me I cannot do a backhand in tennis; I compensate by switching the racket between hands and always doing forhands (and I'm not that bad at doing such).


Same here; I'd say that my mind is not entirely under my control, if that makes any sense. But sometimes it can be fun.


I am quite the opposite, so much so that it can be troublesome for me when I put people off by being, what is the NT way of putting it, "overly honest"? I've been accused of being "blunt" several times; often condescending; often arrogant; but, I'm only ever trying to be honest. I've probably even offended or creeped out or otherwise put people off in the forums here with this trait. Many cannot tolerate my openness; but a bright few have found it to be a valuable commodity. My current boss once called me, "the anti-Yes-man"; I think he meant it as a compliment.


Yeah, I've got this pretty bad; my mistakes are my demons, and boy to they haunt me. Categorize this under the aforementioned thing where your mind becomes fixated on something.


You have a wondrous gift, and a valuable commodity! Embrace and develop it! I am similar; I refer to it as being opposite of a "can't see the forest for the trees" type; I have trouble with the trees sometimes, but I understand "big picture" complexity like nobodies business; I can see patterns, trends, and connections in things that most are oblivious too; in fact, I believe this to be an aspie trait, i.e. being better with complex than simple. This gift has caused me some difficulties in my life, but I was lucky in that I found a way to make a comfortable living dealing with complex problems.

Welcome, and good morrow.

Good fortune,

- Icarus

Nice to meet you, zyban.

Ok, everybody over here: group hug ! ! C'mon, big group hug ! !!

/me hugs reluctantly

Ok, reluctant hugs are aperfectly acceptable.

Group hug, group hug ! !! !

my handwriting is terrible too. i fixed this by writing in block letters.

I hate making mistakes as well. I can remember some from several years ago and think of a better way I could have handled the situation. ^^;

Hello and welcome! I also have wretched handwriting, but somehow I can draw insanely well. I'm an artist and writer, niether of which are currently supplying my living, although my soul I would give to remedy this fact. oh well. I have recently self-diagnosed as Aspie, and I have never felt more at home on any site. Finally, there really are others like me, I don't have to fight myself anymore, or accept anyone's opinion but my own. There is no feeling in the world like knowing you finally belong. I'm not afraid anymore of what I might do or say next. I have started accepting my traits, and all I can say is "I'm Freeeeee!"
Thank you all, and sorry for the rambly bits.

Oh yeah... but, strangely, when i draw a map, it comes up in reverse for some reason...

oh, I know, I know!. . .I see in reverse when I am conscious in a different plane from where the map is made to be seen from. Like when you are sleeping on the astral plane dreaming and you are seeing a concert poster - but the poster is in physical reverse because being in the upper astral.


'planes'

causal
mental
astral-higher
astral - lower
etheric
physical


the physical poster is right way around
the etheric is reverse of physical,
the lower astral is right side of poster again

when I am conscious on other planes as well as being conscious on the physical I can tell which plane I am on by how I read literature around me. I was a voracious reader and taught myself to recognize what it looked like in the plane the physical was on. As long as I can be conscious of what plane I need to be on to manage the physical I looked to lower astral and mental. . .all planes that harmonize the best with me grounding to the physical.

anyway, that is how I ground to the physical and why I see things in reverse, too.

Merle

Welcome.

About the coordination thing, I'm not just clumsy from being an aspie, my whole family is uncoordinated anyway. AND I have this thing where I basically see with one eye at a time, and that too cuts my coordination.

Fortunately I took martial arts for many years. Now I'm maybe a little below average is coordination, and I'm just a little clumsy.