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02 Oct 2011, 10:09 pm

Well, let me tell ya, I do fit that stereotype to some degree. As for no hope. Actually, I've been involved with my own recovery. It's taking me a while, but part of it was not having the right diagnosis nor the right treatment or understanding to help me get where I need to be. After the diagnosis I slowly got to understand why I have no job. Course of action. Recover from a recent lost job. Next course of action (what I'm doing now) go through OVR to find something that suits my skills and does not exacerbate my condition such as my over stimulation from people. I have friends. Few, but good quality. Quality over quantity as they say. I've bee taking the proper steps to find more friends for the future, too. So, we live with our parents? Yeah, but we eventually cut the chord. We need to find what works for us. Some of us need the boost. Some of us are fighting the comfort we have already, which is sort of typical for some aspies, not all. I had a recent move, which took me some time to get used to, but I wasn't overly bothered by it. Staying in the comfort zone occurs a lot when people like us aspies are overstimulated from unfamiliar territory.

We're not all like this, but I do happen to fit the unfortunate stereotype. And as for being sad and pathetic. I hardly think I'm sad. I like where I am. I want more from life, sure and I'm going there. But again I'm happy where I'm at, too. Life is just different for some people and you can't just look at someone's situation and just think they're pathetic or sad or lonely. Their life doesn't have to be like yours. Why does it have to be? If we were all the same, how boring would that be?



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02 Oct 2011, 10:34 pm

Aspie answer : I am conversing with you, therefore I must be alive? Hence I have a life! :D



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02 Oct 2011, 10:47 pm

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I think apies are lonely and sad because they have no friends and they overthink things. They have no hope for a life and most them live with their parents. When they were bullied in grade school.

Dude, you really should get out more and see what life is really like. Maybe then your opinions would be relevant to real-world Aspie issues. You may also want to consider watching something other than the Discovery Channel all day.

For your information, I am not lonely and sad. I have a wife, a family, and a career. I also have a few friends, but the small number is made up for by their loyalty and generosity. My engineering skills are in demand, and my opinions are valued by others.

Please do not assume that your experiences as an Aspie are shared by us all.



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02 Oct 2011, 10:48 pm

No we all suck...



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03 Oct 2011, 1:11 am

Green89tom wrote:
I think apies are lonely and sad because they have no friends and they overthink things. They have no hope for a life and most them live with their parents. When they were bullied in grade school.


Nah, that's just you.



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03 Oct 2011, 4:10 am

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No we all suck...

Sweetleaf, I don't suck. A lot of us don't suck. Just because your life sucks and you don't know how to get yourself out of it doesn't mean you need to drag me down with you.



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03 Oct 2011, 5:21 am

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most them live with their parents. When they were bullied in grade school.


This part is correct. When I was in primary school, I was bullied, and I lived with my parents.


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03 Oct 2011, 9:28 pm

Because having a life is boring to an aspie

Why would aspie want to go to Bali or Baja and get drunk with the jocks and jockets ?

Why would aspie want to go to Seaworld and watch frightened and dispirated animals preform on command while you chow down $22 misery burgers? yes meat is murder

Why would apsie want to "do Europe" ie Contki Tour when that's nothing more than a root and booze tour

Why would aspie want to go to nightclub's where drunken and boring peope make an ass of themselves

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Most normal people activities are boring thats why.


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03 Oct 2011, 9:51 pm

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Aspie answer : I am conversing with you, therefore I must be alive? Hence I have a life! :D


This made my day. :)

To the OP: ... I don't even have anything to say. This is a rather pathetic excuse for attention.


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04 Oct 2011, 12:41 am

Gedrene wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
No we all suck...

Sweetleaf, I don't suck. A lot of us don't suck. Just because your life sucks and you don't know how to get yourself out of it doesn't mean you need to drag me down with you.


It was mostly sarcasm, except I still kinda think I suck.....but I can't speak for everyone. No need to be so harsh when my comment was not even directed at you...yeah my life sucks and i don't know how to get myself out of it, do you have a problem with that?



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04 Oct 2011, 1:50 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
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No we all suck...

Sweetleaf, I don't suck. A lot of us don't suck. Just because your life sucks and you don't know how to get yourself out of it doesn't mean you need to drag me down with you.


It was mostly sarcasm, except I still kinda think I suck.....but I can't speak for everyone. No need to be so harsh when my comment was not even directed at you...yeah my life sucks and i don't know how to get myself out of it, do you have a problem with that?

Well you don't suck. So far your only problem is that you only defend doing things that you know don't help you at all, and have told me as such as well.



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04 Oct 2011, 10:59 am

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First off this is the News and Current Events forum so it's not exactly the right forum for this.
That aside; you make kind of a broad generalization of Asperger's. Are you trying to get people to kill themselves or something?
Define "a life" for us.
I doubt most adult aspies live with their parents unless they are still in college or have fallen on a hard economic situation or whatever.

This is all good, but then...
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Hell, if I’d stayed with my parents any longer than I did I’d be on death row and they’d have both been murdered for being annoying.
Bullying?
What about it?
I’ve been bullied in and in turn I’ve dished out my fair share of bullying.
It’s a give and take kind of world and will continue to be.

...yeah.

I have bullied people before, but I made sure to quickly change my ways and even apologize. I consider someone who does something nasty for a bad reason to not only be a monster, but a threat to my well-being. The only people who say 'it's a give and take world' are the kind of people who say 'if it aint broke don't fix it', when there are improvements to be made, the people who say '1 failure to 9 successes' in the height of the great leap forward. There is one religious phrase I like: Evil begets evil. I like to break the cycle.


Only someone like you could take a real world comon sense phrase like "it's a give and take world "and write a condemning paragraph like that just because.
Whatever.........


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04 Oct 2011, 11:28 am

Some do, some don't

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04 Oct 2011, 11:37 am

Well, I only speak for myself but I have a life. So there's at least one aspie who does.


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04 Oct 2011, 11:56 am

Raptor wrote:
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Hell, if I’d stayed with my parents any longer than I did I’d be on death row and they’d have both been murdered for being annoying.
Bullying?
What about it?
I’ve been bullied in and in turn I’ve dished out my fair share of bullying.
It’s a give and take kind of world and will continue to be.

...yeah.

I have bullied people before, but I made sure to quickly change my ways and even apologize. I consider someone who does something nasty for a bad reason to not only be a monster, but a threat to my well-being. The only people who say 'it's a give and take world' are the kind of people who say 'if it aint broke don't fix it', when there are improvements to be made, the people who say '1 failure to 9 successes' in the height of the great leap forward. There is one religious phrase I like: Evil begets evil. I like to break the cycle.


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Only someone like you could take a real world comon sense phrase like "it's a give and take world "and write a condemning paragraph like that just because.
Whatever.........



Well actually no, I wrote a critical paragraph because of comments like this:
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Hell, if I’d stayed with my parents any longer than I did I’d be on death row and they’d have both been murdered for being annoying
This is considered normal or common sense?

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I’ve been bullied in and in turn I’ve dished out my fair share of bullying.

This isn't common sense. This is just being a jerk. Bullying other people just because it happens. That's what you were saying.

I pointed out the paragraph as soon as you started talking about murdering your parents for being annoying and saying that bullying others is fine because it's 'give and take'. Trying to isolate the one acceptable comment in what you said and holding it against me isn't going to get you anywhere when the rest of what you said is quite deserving of what I said is pretty damned desperate. In the context of the rest of what you said 'Give and take' in fact even that doesn't come across as sensible. It's a give and take world doesn't justify bullying. That's just circular thinking of the cruellest kind.



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Oops, almost forgot the eye rollers.......
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Yes, because adding redundant layers of sarcasm is really helping your case. Your attempt to create a running joke to spite me is vindictive.



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04 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm

Gedrene wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
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No we all suck...

Sweetleaf, I don't suck. A lot of us don't suck. Just because your life sucks and you don't know how to get yourself out of it doesn't mean you need to drag me down with you.


It was mostly sarcasm, except I still kinda think I suck.....but I can't speak for everyone. No need to be so harsh when my comment was not even directed at you...yeah my life sucks and i don't know how to get myself out of it, do you have a problem with that?

Well you don't suck. So far your only problem is that you only defend doing things that you know don't help you at all, and have told me as such as well.


Yeah I do kinda suck as I mentioned even college is not going well anymore and I have no real job skills.....and what things that I know don't help at all do I defend? if you are talking about the cannabis I actually think that does help me but thats the only thing I can think of that you would be referring to.

And if that were true how is that my only problem? I am pretty sure I have more than one problem right now.......Depression is a pretty big one as is the anxiety and whatever else is wrong with my mind.