I would've been killed if I had lived in another day and age

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There is no doubt in my mind that if I had lived in an ancient society with no firm legal system and full of ignorant and uneducated people without a well defined sense of morality, someone wouldn't have been able to contain their anger towards me and would have killed me already.

Did you ever think something along those lines?

I'm sure I would have wound up the crazy old lady in the woods that everyone was too afraid of to try and mess around with. Respected and feared for my differences.

Yea, I've put a little thought into it, but them I'm obsessed with the middle ages

I have thought something along those lines as well.
I would have been the 'slow' person that everyone shunned.. Sometimes it just takes me a minute to say something. Or I would have been a hermit... My mom calls me that.

Oddl if there were no laws, I might have been better off. HECK, they didn't protect me in school! I have been passive, and probably would have been less so if I always knew I could depend so little on any laws.

Then again, I am not overly wierd.(No offense to anyone considering themselves to be so)

Yes, we would have all been killed. Anyone in the past that challenged beliefs of the mainstream of the current society were put to death or threatened and barely escaped.

your posts made me chuckle!

My cousins tried to kill me off several times in my youth. They were not particularly 'mad' at me, they just sided with my brother that I was an embarrassment to the family and I needed to go. That cynical attitude made them far more dangerous than if they were passionate about it because I never knew when it was going to happen. Rowing with them in the reservoir and getting tossed in "for fun" and then they rowed back to the shore, leaving me to swim back or drown. Or when they tossed me out from the tailgate of the car and I bumped and spun into the pavement, effectively skinning myself on both sides of my body. That required hospitalization. "we don't know, she must have jumped!" I remember them saying that over and over. Needless to say I left 'home' at an early age only to be arrested and placed in a mental institution for my 'waywardness'. Frankly, I was looking for any way to get out of there, any way at all.

and I have lived in the backwoods with 14 cats, the crazy old lady in the abandoned house, a garden shack, a 12 foot travel trailer, a tent on a stretch of beach in a tropical land, a willow withe wickiup out on the flood plain of a Northwest River, , before I could get it together again and come down the mountain and use my brain and what education I have scraped together in my life to put clothes on my back and food in my stomach and a roof over my head.

I only mention this because when someone talks about what they have avoided in life, I realize how so much of it is simply 'not yet' rather than 'never'.
I have no idea if I am NOT going to end up the on the street. Do you?

I think that I would have fit in much better in a different era to the current one.

Socialising with NT's is much more important now than it has been in the past.

I would have hated living in a previous era with no computers or internet along with the mindset that people with autism/asperger's syndrome needed to be institutionalized on outdated information.

I KNOW I would be burned at the stake if I spoke my mind to other people. Or at least they would try too XD

I second being a crazy old lady in the forest, being respected and feared because of my differences.

I might have been killed in the Holocaust if I was German for supporting the Jews rather than going along with most of the NT Germans and tolerating it... I might have even been killed due to my mental problems!

This is a really good point to ponder. Most laws are selectively enforced. Sometimes this is actually written into the law, but a lot of times it's the judges and law enforcement. When I was in school they definitely did not enforce laws against assault and battery against school bullies, not even the teachers.

I agree that I would've been killed if I had lived in another day & age. But I still gotta worry about being killed today. Every NT I meet hates me. But they're everywhere. I live on a busy main drag that is full of uneducated, violent people. I gotta stay out of public the best I can just to avoid getting beat up or shot.

My racist granddaddy was born in 1927. Even though he killed himself 2 years before I was born, I got told about all the derogatory terms he used. He NEVER got beat up or shot for it neither. Wish I could use those terms and NOT have to worry about getting beat up or shot...but no. These are the days when those 1930s derogatory terms get you beat up or shot cuz NO NT has enough sense to just stand there & take it like they should. In 2007 A.D. nobody cares if they get life in prison for killing someone...except the smartest people in the world, and most of those smartest people have ASDs.

I am very hateful towards NTs for the way they refuse to learn about my condition. Plus earlier this year I was just trying to make some friends & I was told to keep quiet about my AS. I REFUSE to keep quiet about my AS! Regardless of the fact I claim to be from the 1930s, I was BORN in the 1980s, and diagnosed with AS in the mid-1990s. Everyone I meet can & will pick up on it that I have impaired social skills. I MUST let them know I CAN'T HELP THAT!

Definitely. My mom says that if I'd been born in an earlier decade, I would've been locked up in an insane asylum.

I'd be in reform school or so depressed I died, or living alone out in the woods to get away from all the strict conformity or something. I might be in a shack like a haunted house that everyone avoided, I might be working in an insane asylum because I could identify with the patients, I might be a writer living a secluded life, and building my hkouse and making inventions for it due to nothing better to do, having pets as family and friends, I don't know.

People would probably think I was a witch and burn me at the stake.

My mom used to always tell me that if we lived in Pilgrim times, the whole family would be killed because I couldn't keep quiet or because I was always running off.

I'd probably be burned too, after being thrown in the water and either drowned, or delclared a witch because I floated (I was a tomboy when I was a kid so I might have learned to swim when other girls didn't).