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Yupa
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13 May 2008, 4:43 pm

I am a disease.



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13 May 2008, 4:44 pm

Oh well. So is the rest of humanity. Nothing but a disease that plagues this planet. Being a disease is nothing to be ashamed of, everyone is a disease.


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13 May 2008, 4:57 pm

The question I have is: Am I a monster? Or am I a normal human being without Asperger's Syndrome who is capable of love and civil behaviour? I'm sure I'm the latter, but the brutal spectre of the former keeps following me around and won't leave me alone.



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13 May 2008, 5:04 pm

AS is not a disease.



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13 May 2008, 5:04 pm

Yupa wrote:
The question I have is: Am I a monster? Or am I a normal human being without Asperger's Syndrome who is capable of love and civil behaviour? I'm sure I'm the latter, but the brutal spectre of the former keeps following me around and won't leave me alone.


Or are you a human being with Asperger's Syndrome who is capable of love and civil behaviour. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.


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13 May 2008, 5:09 pm

AS is not a disease, and neither are you.


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13 May 2008, 5:17 pm

Hodor wrote:
Or are you a human being with Asperger's Syndrome who is capable of love and civil behaviour. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.


Painful experience with the presence of other aspies and other peoples' stories of their experiences with aspies has shown me that they are.
Aspies in real life act like monsters, and I just want to know that I'm not a monster.
And if I'm a monster I'm unfit to survive, and I don't want to be unfit to survive.



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13 May 2008, 5:47 pm

Yupa wrote:
Hodor wrote:
Aspies in real life act like monsters


Do you know who you're speaking to? Hel-lo, we're sitting RIGHT HERE. What you're saying is utter nonsense, that has nothing to do with having a very slightly atypical brain function which gives you a unique perspective and singular problem solving abilities.

What you're saying is the depression talking, and I promise you, no matter how dark or how long the tunnel seems, it does pass, and there is light at the other end. Unless you're murdering people for sport, you are not a monster. You have a different way of dealing with a world that was not designed with you in mind, and yes, it's agonizingly tough sometimes, but there are people out there with even more difficult handicaps and they're not monsters, either.

Every moment of pain you go through is a test of your will and inner strength and you have a lot more of those than you can imagine. Pain is not permanent no matter how intense, and each encounter you survive leaves you stronger. Get off your knees, embrace that pain, absorb it and grow. It will leave you with insights and abilities (and hopefully a compassion) that those happy-go-lucky morons around you will never have.

Unhappiness and pain are the darkness that make us able to truly appreciate the light when it comes. And it always does. Eventually.



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13 May 2008, 5:55 pm

Monsters rule ! !!


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13 May 2008, 5:55 pm

What's so bad about being a monster. I'd rather be a wolf than a sheep. :twisted:


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13 May 2008, 6:49 pm

GoatOnFire wrote:
What's so bad about being a monster. I'd rather be a wolf than a sheep. :twisted:


then why is your avatar a goat :?



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13 May 2008, 6:51 pm

Yupa wrote:
I am a disease.


you have just as much of a purpose as anybody else, you just struggle with different difficulties than other people :)



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20 May 2008, 10:23 pm

AS isnt a disease. but ignorence bout it sure is spreading like one.
on youtube on my account some guy said:
"Autism isnt a real disease."
and i say:
"Who am I gonna trust, you or a nuerologist?"
He says:
"I am a nuerologist."
I say:
"No ur a college student according to ur channel."
then he says:
"Studying nuerology."
I say:
"ya right, u cant even classify autism in its right term. if ur a nuerologist, u would know that its real and not a disease. but ur obviously not"

i dont get y people dont want to accept that its real. makes no sense...



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21 May 2008, 1:39 am

matsuiny2004 wrote:
GoatOnFire wrote:
What's so bad about being a monster. I'd rather be a wolf than a sheep. :twisted:


then why is your avatar a goat :?
GoatOnFire is a very confused goat... ;)



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21 May 2008, 7:58 am

Punkers with AS are the greatest monsters. :O)


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21 May 2008, 8:25 pm

I assure you, the capacity to be a "monster" is uninhibited by one's neurological state.

All the monsters I have met have been neurotypical, that's all I'm saying.


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