Are aspies on Wrong Planet worse-than-average?

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Ah the optimism of youth.

I'm here, older than most, have had a good life, and I think I was always milder than most. For example, I don't remember ever having any noticeable sensory issues (worst there was being worse than other people (probably mostly NTs) at distinguishing words from a lot of background noise. No big deal: it wasn't really easy for _them_, either, and if we wanted to really talk we'd go somewhere quieter. I don't think I ever did any noticeable amount of stimming. I think I invented echolalia independently. My parents thought that I was doing it to annoy them, and I think maybe I thought so, too. I did eventually quit doing it, and could, I believe, have quit sooner, if I hadn't wanted to annoy my parents.... I was no good at team sports, but then girls don't have to be.

Part of the reason that I'm here is that Asperger's/Autism has become my main Special Interest, since I found out about it. I'm probably not in need of any "Support Group" for it, but I'd like to find a few friends here, with the intensity diluted by being online, instead of in the Real World. I don't even know any Aspies/Auties in my real world, and I'd like to know what the rest of us are like. I'm already in several other online groups that match some of my Special Interests, and have been for the last 14 years, since I got onto the internet.

I've had a good life, probably better than most, worldwide, maybe not as good as might-have-been, but probably nobody does and is everything they think they're going to be when they start out. Most kids who love baseball are never going to play in the World Series. I'd do my life again. It might be better if I could start out knowing about Asperger's, and knowing as much as I do now about it. In that way, all you kids are lucky.

There are a ton of variables that determine someone's outcome in life. Too many to place on a single one-dimensional "severity" scale. Someone who doesn't grow up with a supportive environment or someone with mental health issues on top of autism is not going to fare as well as someone else without all those extra issues.

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Well, obviously this is all just speculation, but speaking as a person who's been on and off this site for several years I've observed the full spectrum of functionality on here - from very low to very high and everything in-between.

I actually know quite a few aspies (diagnosed, not people I speculate might be aspies) offline, due to being involved in support groups and activism, and I find that they are mostly lower-functioning than myself, with a few of equivalent functioning.

I have never seen nor heard of aspies such as Knives1000 describes who have genuine diagnosed Asperger's IRL. As I said before, the highest functioning aspies I have met IRL are of equivalent functioning to myself. Those of us in this category seem to have a similar history - experiencing chronic bullying at school/AS related social problems at a young age, but had a massive increase in skill-set and learning (for whatever reason; biological or environmental) in late teens to early adulthood, so much so that we are now superficially able to blend into everyday society.

Every single person, whether they are here on WP or not, determines for themselves what "average" means.

"Average" is a subjective term.

You may not consider me average, while someone else might.

What does it matter really? What you or anyone else thinks doesn't change the reality of what I deal with on a day-to-day basis. I don't really care what "average" is or means. All that matters to me is how to deal with my own difficulties, and how I might be able to help others from time to time deal with theirs.

What constitutes average is irrelevant.

i;'ve got a "cool car"

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But do they care they shouldn't

The guys probably in It and drives a (Audi) more than likely in silver to a cock car driven by cocks it's equivalent of the coke snorting white Porche driving 80's stockbroker they did so much to tarnish that brand.



By "cool car:" I assume a bicycle yes bicycles (fact) a far more cooler than cars not that I care but my 3 k road bike gets more admiration's than a hotted up car 20 times that amount so I can look "cool' on a budget.



These It people if they want to be 'cool" they should consider an old DS nothing is cooler than the goddess if retro ain't your thing why not a big french Citroen or Renault that would be bad ass cool but than again may be not since no one outside the french bureaucracy drives such cars they have lead balloon deprecations so you may be cool though I would question your sanity?

May be go for the Audi anyways ?

I have the little brother of Audi, a VW Golf. It ain't cool, but technology-wise a good car that looks a bit conservative, besides it's grey. I don't care. It's not for chasing girls. My bicycles aren't cool either. They look average at best.