Where do you go to forget your AS?

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Painting, video games, reading, sleeping, and being alone.

My mind.

I sing. I'm not weird in the music world.

Video games! I loves them so, if I didn't have them to escape with I have no idea where i'd be right now

I'm only conscious of it (in the sense of being "different" in an uncomfortable way) when I'm with other people, so that's easy - I go wherever I can be alone. When I've just been interacting with other people too much and feel drained, though, reading, music, computer games and being alone outdoors help the most.

I really only feel befallen by Asperger's issues when I'm with strangers or in public. I hide it pretty well until (or unless) I have to talk with others or interact in any way. If I'm just part of the background, I feel like anyone else.

To answer the question directly, I like being alone in the house in the early morning when everyone probably is asleep. That's MY time, and it's a comfortable refuge. I also forget I have anything deviating from the norm when I go dirt bike riding (ALONE). I never go to the track, or have other riders come to our place. When I was 13 or 14, I had a few friends who would take me along to ride, but I felt like I was the 3rd wheel. I'm blessed with being in the position to have a place at home where I built my own outdoor nationals style track, and I change it now & then if it gets boring. Usually boring isn't a problem though . I feel like there's no Asperger's when I'm driving, or walking alone or with my wife. I can go to Costco or a car show, or any place in public where I'm not likely to be the focus of anyone, and feel like everyone else until someone looks me in the eye or talks to me. Then I immediately have to go into acting mode, and get my front on real fast. It ruins any pleasure I get from going to those places sometimes, I guess. But certainly not always! I'd say for every time I'm contacted in public and I feel like I'm flubbing it all up, there are 10 times when I feel like I interacted fine, and those with whom I interacted probably have no idea anything is different about me.

Charles

I truly am happier when I am in motion, whether that be in the car or walking. I like bus rides. I like the going more than the rriving. Driving, walking, running. bike riding, swimming. Whatever, as long as it involves going. My favorite thing of all are interstates and I love Atlases and maps of them. It sounds like an Aspie cliche, but, "transportation fixation" fits in my case.

I hang out with my friends and have a couple drinks. Not enough to get stupid drunk, just to keep a light buzz going. I honestly don't think about it that much.

When I get lost in anything -- playing a board game, playing Rock Band, playing my favorite MMORPG, reading a book, writing, dancing at a club.... All the things that took me away from the real world when I was young still work!

Nowhere really. It dosen't bother me to have AS. I like having it. When I am alone and doing things NT's can't seem to get their heads around, it only reminds me of my AS and how because of it I am able to do the said things NTs can't get their heads around. If someone thinks it's wrong for me to not be ashamed of my AS, they can go jump in a lake.

For me, I usually do it by watching TV, using my Laptop or reading a comic. Normally they work.

Taking care of the cats at work. I can do it just as well as anyone else, and cats don't care that I can't communicate well or make social blunders.

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I don't.

Even when I'm alone and not online in some way, I always feel that AS is there in some form mostly because of the way I think.

Why forget? I just spend as much time as I can in environments where the way my brain works is advantageous.

Online communities. Really.

But most of the time I just wallow in my aspieness and do things that interest me at the time like spend 30 minutes on Wikipedia moving trivia in articles, or an hour reading about biology and medicine, or two hours playing a mindless and challenging video game with a fair amount of visual (white noise).