How has this forum changed you or your perception of others?

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Since I'm fairly new here, I'm sort of curious if anyone can say they have learned or gained any insights into themselves. Have you learned to view others with a little more acceptance or at least tolerance, maybe?

Please, comment.

Nope, not a damn thing.

All i've learnt is that being annoying is a Human thing, not an NT thing.

yeah you learn even the most obscue things from threads, sometimes not related to the actual thread just peoples manner and approach to life, i do learn a lot, and especially that a lot fo kids and younger people with aspergers are out there.

Well looking back on my life knowing I likely am on the autisic spectrum seems to
explain most the problems I have had and will have. I know its unlikely much will
change in my life. But I'm not sad about it. I say a few months ago when I had
not heard of "aspergers" I had come to very much the same idea (that things will
not change). My new knowledge just explains why I can not change where as before
I thought it was the world holding me down.
I see the people here very much like me. People here are young and old , sad,
not so sad, nice, mean. I've been all those things more or less so I'm not shocked
by much of what I here.

It helps me feel that I'm not alone in the world after all.

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It was amazing to find people who understood. It has also changed my outlook - I now let myself stim, tell people that I don't understand, etc. I feel as though it's OK to be the way I am now - yes it's still annoying at times, but now I know why I am as I am, and it's also helped because I've confided in a few people and they're helpful in that they'll tell me if something's inappropriate, or whether I'm supposed to be doing something I'm not. I no longer wish to change - at one point I felt so frustrated and annoyed I just wanted to die. (I wouldn't have killed or harmed myself because my beliefs prevent that, and I'm now very glad for that.)

I hve learned so much about myself, and I've also now become more open-minded. If someone does or says something inappropriate I have learned to accept it - after all; I don't know what their reasoning is behind it, whereas before I'd have just been annoyed at them for whatever.

I have also met a friend through this website who shares my religious beliefs and understands certain situations better than others would. (If you read this you know who you are )

Um, yeah. It's changed my outlook completely, in a very positive way.

What I've learned is that I could be happier, if I just be Myself. I've been doing that for over 6 Months now, and I feel like a whole new person. I've also learned that I'm not the only person my age who still lives with my folks, or experiences unique Family Problems. The most important thing that this Site has taught me, is that there's Good and Bad in Everyone, whether a person is ASD, DD or NT.

Yeah my mom has 40" DD, its hard on her back.

or did you mean D-n-D, Yeah alot of people are destroying their lives playing that
game.

The biggest impact for me has been realizing that I'm okay, that the reason I haven't been more successful in life is not some fundamental character flaw or defect. I'm supposed to be this way.

The first month or so that I was on this site was immensly educational.


Right now, most of my major revelations have occured through the talks I have had with my (also aspie... but really damn good at "the mask game") brother, and through my own thoughts and outside research.

I haven't really learned anything, other then that there is something of an Autistic Community.

There have been no real surprises here.