11 May 2008, 1:13 am
11 May 2008, 6:03 am
Nice to meet you, Eel_Nadroj. 
Nice Avatar of Zack from FFVII.
11 May 2008, 6:18 am
Hi and Welcome to Wrong Planet Eel Nadroj.
11 May 2008, 7:02 am
Welcome to WP! 
I'm also kind of new here.
Your post got me wondering... Were you diagnosed as a child? And in what ways do people treat you 'differently'?
Is it possible that, since you've had it 'all your life', that your parents, and other people, have taught you to cope with it really well (to the point where you don't even feel different from others)? Because in that case you should consider yourself very lucky and they deserve some huge credit.
My parents used to hold summer camps for disabled children (some of them autistic) before I was born, and since they didn't have any experience of raising NT children, they were always very pedagogical and supporting. And since I was profoundly gifted as a child, and wasn't too 'weird', they never realised I had AS (this was the early 90's, so they probably didn't even know what it was).
And btw, it's normal to feel normal, even for people with AS. Since you'll never know how you would feel/act/think if you were NT, how could you feel 'not normal', unless you're being compared to people without autistic traits.
Remember: Normal is relative.
I wish you all the best and hope you'll like it here! 
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11 May 2008, 9:34 am
To WrongPlanet!! !
11 May 2008, 10:06 am
11 May 2008, 10:06 am
I'm also kind of new here.
Your post got me wondering... Were you diagnosed as a child? And in what ways do people treat you 'differently'?
Is it possible that, since you've had it 'all your life', that your parents, and other people, have taught you to cope with it really well (to the point where you don't even feel different from others)? Because in that case you should consider yourself very lucky and they deserve some huge credit.
My parents used to hold summer camps for disabled children (some of them autistic) before I was born, and since they didn't have any experience of raising NT children, they were always very pedagogical and supporting. And since I was profoundly gifted as a child, and wasn't too 'weird', they never realised I had AS (this was the early 90's, so they probably didn't even know what it was).
And btw, it's normal to feel normal, even for people with AS. Since you'll never know how you would feel/act/think if you were NT, how could you feel 'not normal', unless you're being compared to people without autistic traits.
Remember: Normal is relative.
I wish you all the best and hope you'll like it here!
Yea I was Diagnosed as a child, when I was 6 years old but my mother told me I didn't have it, yet she feared a what if seniero. My little brother has autism as well, and out of 4 kids thats somewhat of a problem to here, But what I ment by treating me different the teachers at my school made it seem like my fault I had it and they chastised me for it.
11 May 2008, 12:05 pm
Brittany2907
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12 May 2008, 9:18 am
Teachers can be so cruel, especially ones in mainstream schools. They aren't taught to teach those with disabilities or learning differences, so when it comes to having someone in their class who may be a bit different, they don't know what to do with them other than punish them, as thats the general 'rule' for 'supposedly defiant' or 'misbehaving' children/young people.
What comes as a shock, is that even special education teachers or teachers at alternative education settings are sometimes intolerant of their students differences. Looks like they choose the wrong career and have the wrong attitude as a human being as a whole.
P.S, welcome Eel_Nadroj, I hope you enjoy posting here.
Laurz_2192
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12 May 2008, 9:29 am
Hi, welcome =]
Don't even get me started on teachers not understanding << I've got my final exams coming up this year and my school is doing nothing to support me with it. I have difficulty sometimes understanding what the question is asking of me so I'd like to have someone there to explain the question to me. I have no problem writing it out or answring, it's just understanding it.
But enough about me, this is your welcome ^^; So hi!
12 May 2008, 11:59 am
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12 May 2008, 1:51 pm
