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Why do we have license plates on our cars? It pays for the roads
How do they pay for the roads? They're just plates and stickers on them. You buy the plates and put them on your car and the money you spent on them goes to the roads. When you renew the stickers, that money also goes to the roads. That's why we have plates on our cars.
Why do we have to keep them on? I suppose it's our proof of purchase so the officers know we have already paid, same as the stickers so they know we have already renewed.

I do so, not with my whole torso, but very frequently with my left knee. It is quite common with Aspergers.

The plates are also to identify the cars. BTW they ALSO claim state, federal, sales, toll, and gas taxes, as well as various car , and mass transit related charges/tickets, pay for the roads. So, even PEDESTRIANS that NEVER owned a car pay for the roads. In fact, THAT is one reason why the speed limit used to be 55! They SAID it was to "save lives". OBVIOUSLY, if that were true, almost every speed limit would STILL be 55. So WHY were they 55, and SUDDENLY got raised? Because the federal government wouldn't pay for roads unless they had a speed limit of no more than 55. The second they removed that limit, roads suddenly had the limits raised.

My dad told me they pay for the roads when I asked him why do we need them on our cars. I also know they get registered to your car. When they type in your license plate number, your car model and year pops up in their computer system. So it be useless to buy old license plates in a antique store and place them on your car because when they type in the number, it say it be invalid. Plus you need stickers on your plate and I doubt the DMV will let you register the old license plate to your car. When Montana made new plates with the new design, they made my dad get new plates because they were handed to him when he had to renew the stickers so i was like "No wonder people changed their license plates, they were forced." You can't just decide to keep your old ones on your car I guess.

I joined Facebook a while back, mainly because a friend of mine had developed a program that was offered there and I wanted to support him. But Facebook itself is a complete mystery to me. I really never have understood it. I do have a Twitter account under the same username as my YT account: aragonpr. To be truthful, I do not understand what I am supposed to do there either and why everyone keeps talking about "tweets". So much for listening to people tell me that I "just have to join" these groups.

Nena

I humbly disagree.

Gas taxes pay for the roads. The purpose of plates is for vehicles in commercial use and was never supposed to apply to private conveyances, but this is an involved discussion so I'll stop there.

is this Nena the 99luftballons Nena?

If you still are aloof to people outside of family, doctors, other professionals and mechanical types of interaction, you'd still have Classic Autism. Doctors sometimes forget that interaction with them is a far cry from normal socialising; they tend to think that how you are with them is how you are with everyone.

If you're more "odd and eccentric" in regards to social interaction, it probably means that you improved naturally to a level of someone with AS; this happens.

You're kidding, right? The Nena from 99luftballons(Nena Kerner) ..., looks quite a bit different, is german, and probably still has a german accent. Also, I don't think Nena Kerner has AS. HERE is the Nena from 99luftballons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nena

Daniel simply noticed that linasgirl always spoke about Nena Aragón's videos, and asked if the two were one in the same.

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I'm new here on the forums, she has been anything but aloof or odd to me. this is a social situation...

As the Wikipedia article presents pretty well, the debate of AS vs. Classic Autism is not new. And I think AS to a degree is a person who is much more self-aware of their problems, despite not being able to fix it. Clearly with her video and instructional content, she shows a keen understanding of her problems. The real issue is... do the problems continue to surface/is it a constant battle?

I think this is the true curse of AS and why friendships and relationships are so hard for undiagnosed people / uneducated people in their lifes. The more people get to know the AS individual, the more they see how smart they are - how hard they work on their problems. But it never comes out right, the emotions and thinking is never NT, and it grates on the NT people.

I think to a degree, the content of the video gets at the heart of why friendships and relationships fall apart. The WHY? questions. The persistence. for NT humans, I think they live on a planet where truth is unwelcome, where they give up. Their brains almost seem to release a chemical that induces boredom or apathy that many with AS lack? It surely is repulsive socially to most humans to be to persistent on a topic. The classic nagging wife comes to mind

AS people seem to have either on or of and lack fine-grain control. We either avoid social situations that we know will cause us conflict, or we consider something important enough and we sometimes get caught in the WHY? series discussed in the video. And, your millage may vary, but that's what I've seen and have discussed with some others with AS.

I found this of interest, a NT Actor in a recent movie who faced a character that was absolute in his thinking. The actor said he almost went crazy channeling this character! Read the interview here: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/08/21/is ... thinks-so/

Nah, it's not. Unless you see and feel that it is, of course. This is pure unemotional and mechanical to me; PM is another matter, but even that is a very far cry from social interaction in person. Talking to a camera isn't that hard either, unless you can project anxiety from an external situation to the event that's taking place as you film yourself.

The whole AS and Classic thingy is easy to define; they're either the same disorder but separated by severity, or they're separate but similar conditions. The research papers are split about 50/50 over which of these two is the right one (PubMed search).

I'm not debating you outright, really just sharing what I see:

Listen to some podcasts and videos. Most people (NT and all) freeze up on camera or when asked to give a presentation in front of a class. Didn't you go to a public school? Most people don't like their picture being taken, especially by strangers!

It is a characteristic of AS to almost NOT be afraid of some things like this. I've seen phrases like "active but odd" used to describe people. One example: http://autistscorner.blogspot.com/2008/ ... girls.html

Theory: In a way AS people are fearless, but get overloaded.... so they learn to fear the situation that causes the overload. But they aren't fearful in general of people, just of their own internal consequences that people can cause.

I wanted to point out there was also some good comments posted on the YouTube comments section for this video.

Thankyou so much for this video Nena. You have a great way of articulating the autistic condition in an understandable way. I'm definately gonna watch more of your videos. Keep up the good work!

Let me clear this up right now. No one is born a woman. That is impossible. We are "born" female or male. But even this is not accurate. We are "assigned" either female or male by physicians based upon initial observation of our genitalia and then are socialized into these roles first by family and then by society as a whole.

I was assigned female at birth and thus proceeded through more or less a typical female socialization process -- that is, as "typical" as it could be for an autistic girl. As a teenager, I was diagnosed as having been born intersexed. I was extremely confused by this news. I obsessed about it, faced years of major depression and self-destructive behavior. I already did not see myself as human because I am autistic. This just provided additional confirmation of that.

I now am in much better shape but Lina, the love of my life and an Aspie, will tell you that I still struggle with it -- a lot. In addition to videos about autism, I also make videos to help transgender individuals to live more fulfilling lives. I do this because my path in life has given me a unique perspective about their struggle.

I hope that this clears up any confusion. And yes, I am not the Nena of 99luftballons.

Nena Aragón

I am going to be arrested for tax evasion someday....