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29 Dec 2014, 4:25 pm

a) Before the age of nine or ten, I did not see myself as different. Instead, I saw normal people as weird and also appreciated idiosyncrasies. However, when I learned about autism, I felt like I was able to relate to autistic people, so I also started feeling different from other people. Soon afterwards, my parents told me that I am autistic.

I had another "feeling different" period when I was in middle school. I became more aware of how I think and wondered why my thoughts were so weird. A few months later, I found out about a condition called schizotypal personality disorder and was able to relate to it. While I haven't been diagnosed with it, I think I have it.

b) I had to accept my very un-neurotypical brain wiring. For some time, I was seeing what society calls "disorders" as problems (though when it came to conditions like schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders, I alternated between that attitude and the attitude that those conditions are fine and it is really society that is the problem, and I did see some advantages to being autistic). However, after getting involved in the neurodiversity movement and finding out about the social model of disability, I saw neurological disabilities as having advantages as well as having barriers put up by society that make it harder to adapt. I started thinking that disabled people should not only allow themselves to be accommodated but also should try to change society.

Also, I learned the hard way that working with my brain wiring makes me function better than I would if I were working against it (i.e., trying to do things the neurotypical way).

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29 Dec 2014, 4:36 pm

Humans can be very funny creatures. A more effective model may/will be canned simply because of appeal to tradition. I remember I self-taught myself a lot in elementary school and I ended up in SpED for that (not to mention the hampering it's brought with it).

I guess that's what happens when you're autistic. We not only think things differently but we see them differently, as well.

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29 Dec 2014, 7:08 pm

IntellectualCat wrote:

For some time, I was seeing what society calls "disorders" as problems (though when it came to conditions like schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders, I alternated between that attitude and the attitude that those conditions are fine and it is really society that is the problem,

I normally think that it is the general society that has the disorder which makes them susceptible to aggressive and contagious memes, and self-organizing schema. They readily allow themselves to be controlled by what I call "mind viruses", apparently all the while unaware, while focusing on the end goal of the chemical reward they receive for completing certain behaviors.

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Also, I learned the hard way that working with my brain wiring makes me function better than I would if I were working against it (i.e., trying to do things the neurotypical way).

Could you give a couple of examples of this and specifically what you did to work with the wiring?

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29 Dec 2014, 8:10 pm

cyberdad wrote:

ImAnAspie wrote:

b) What solutions have you come up with, with your Aspie wired brain that's blown humans out of the water?

You probably assume that only somebody with Aspergers is capable of this type of problem solving

My 9 yr old daughter has classic autism and attends mainstream school. She was using her classroom reading program software at home and it came up with an error message when she tried to complete a task. It frustrated her at first. By the end of the week she worked out the problem. How did she do it?

Well, she went to school and stood behind all 25 of her classmates and (over the course of three days) memorised all their login and passwords. She came home and hacked into each student's account and checked to see if their tasks were completed and if the error message turned up on their screen. When I caught her she viewing a series of different accounts I confronted her. She promised not use the accounts in future (tricky because I know she has their account details memorised). Anyway she figured out that the error message didn't appear if she used internet explorer instead of google chrome!! problem solved!!

That's genius!
That's the true hacker spirit right there! Not malicious, but problem solving... even if it verges on breaking ethical norms.

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30 Dec 2014, 4:14 pm

“I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
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