On some level I don't fit in here

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I don't quite feel comfortable with even calling myself an Aspie because I am not diagnosed..(i just have a bunch of Aspie symptoms) and I sorta feel like I belong here...

um...

I likethe ukranian easter eggs story...it reminds me of how I started sewing sock monkeys at the age of 26...I was really off the deep end...living in a little rented room....no decent direction in my life..serious depression..few friends...all this other dumb stuff...The only thing I had were these obsessive projects I would work on...putting together "theme concerts"...(where I think people humored me..even though they thought I was out of my mind...)
and um..i started sewing sock creatures...and all of a sudden they took over my whole life...and people liked me for them...I participated in art crawls...and went around the country in a band sewing and displaying them...and even sorta wound up with a boyfriend because of them...(though that is a long, drama ridden tale)...anyway...sock creatures more or less changed my life..I think...

thats what the ukranian easter eggs story reminds me of.

Maybe jimservo knows what he is talking about and maybe you are the one who is out of touch with reality.

That's how I've felt, the past two months. I've found my way at WP, once again.

I feel just like Jimservo in not feeling I belong and that I am functioning at a different level than most here. There is no disagreement with me and Jimservo on that.
My point is thats has to be a near universial feeling amoung aspies on WP.

We are the Aspies. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Earthcalling-- was your mother ever featured on a children's show? I once saw a Ukrainian egg artist on a children's show (can't remember which one). She was amazing.

Realistically the Borg is how an aspie organization could work and make all the members feel they belonged. Aspies would be willing to join the Borg in large numbers.
My theory on evolution is self-replicating machines are the next step in evolution so if
mankind is going to be part of that he will have to interface with the machines.

I've wormed my way back into this massive group of wonderful individuals.

I appreciate the sentiment but I don't want this to have this topic turn to negative.

I think my initial post might have left the impression I was somehow leaving blame. Hopefully, I have cleared that up.

It is to fair to say that no person is going to fit into any group completely, although some will fit in better then others.

No she was not.

The thing is, I suspect that a lot of women that get heavy into this craft actually are on the ASD spectrum, or just a notch off it. If you knew anything about how it is done, the 100,000 hours or so it takes to perfect the pouring of wax percicely onto a dyed egg shell, the geometric percision you just have to have an inherent "instinct' with, very few NT's could do it! I imagine there may a few people out there with my mothers skill, but she is definately in the top percentile of "egg artists"!

I remember once she brought an emu egg she carved to a Walmart portrit studio to have it "photographed"! Now that was a funny day!

Yeah sorry if I gave the impression I was attacking you. My point was you were just another aspie publicly stating what I have observed here many times. Aspie largely see themselves on the outside. Its just part of the condition.

Actually, it is a product of several Aspie Pride threads which have been floating around.

Have you grown up have the Dx hanging over you (you are 23 - 24 now?) ?

I think its different you younger people who have grwon up with a label and for those who are older or didn't have any label, just knowing they were not on the right planet and doing their best.

If you have always been told you are AS .... it may become your identity, or something to grasp as some emotional security (excuse?).

Why don't we just announce the Lesser Aspie Pride?