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18 Dec 2016, 7:53 pm

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The "wrong planet" thing is referring to everybody else. We're on the right planet, everybody else is from the wrong one. :)

Yup, 100% correct, that's what I've believed all these years.



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18 Dec 2016, 8:02 pm

I truly felt all my life that I was on the wrong planet, but now I am glad at least I found an ark of people similar to me, that makes me miss ork a lot less. :alien:



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18 Dec 2016, 8:54 pm

auntblabby wrote:
I truly felt all my life that I was on the wrong planet, but now I am glad at least I found an ark of people similar to me, that makes me miss ork a lot less. :alien:


Yes join us, become part of the collective. We are Autism, we are WrongPlanet, we are legion... :alien:


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18 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm

Austinfrom1995 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I truly felt all my life that I was on the wrong planet, but now I am glad at least I found an ark of people similar to me, that makes me miss ork a lot less. :alien:


Yes join us, become part of the collective. We are Autism, we are WrongPlanet, we are legion... :alien:

yes, we are the foreign legion :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:



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18 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm

Austinfrom1995 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I truly felt all my life that I was on the wrong planet, but now I am glad at least I found an ark of people similar to me, that makes me miss ork a lot less. :alien:


Yes join us, become part of the collective. We are Autism, we are WrongPlanet, we are legion... :alien:


Individualism was overrated anyhow. :alien:


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18 Dec 2016, 9:08 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Austinfrom1995 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I truly felt all my life that I was on the wrong planet, but now I am glad at least I found an ark of people similar to me, that makes me miss ork a lot less. :alien:


Yes join us, become part of the collective. We are Autism, we are WrongPlanet, we are legion... :alien:

yes, we are the foreign legion :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:


:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Yes.

^^ Indeed it is, being unique, pfft! That's too mainstream now.


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18 Dec 2016, 9:39 pm

It's fitting. I found out autistic people don't use the part of the brain when speaking to someone else neurotypicals use. It's the same part neurotypicals use when talking to a pet or object.
No wonder I feel so lonely.


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18 Dec 2016, 9:41 pm

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It's fitting. I found out autistic people don't use the part of the brain when speaking to someone else neurotypicals use. It's the same part neurotypicals use when talking to a pet or object.
No wonder I feel so lonely.

no wonder they talk to me like a pet or object :o



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18 Dec 2016, 10:00 pm

There is nothing wrong with the name of the site.

The term "Aspie," however, sounds kind of like a "pet name." It makes something frustrating to a great many people sound "cute."



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18 Dec 2016, 10:46 pm

auntblabby wrote:
johnnyh wrote:
It's fitting. I found out autistic people don't use the part of the brain when speaking to someone else neurotypicals use. It's the same part neurotypicals use when talking to a pet or object.
No wonder I feel so lonely.

no wonder they talk to me like a pet or object :o


I don't. :)

But I have been talked to like an object as well.


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18 Dec 2016, 10:47 pm

I don't mind people calling me aspie :alien: it sounds friendly. :) but i'm aware that it rubs others among us the wrong way. :oops:



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18 Dec 2016, 10:48 pm

Austinfrom1995 wrote:
But I have been talked to like an object as well.

I hope you learned how to ignore those people.



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18 Dec 2016, 10:51 pm

auntblabby wrote:
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But I have been talked to like an object as well.

I hope you learned how to ignore those people.


I have, I have learned to ignore all those downlookers, those anti-aspie individuals who see me as just an idiot.


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18 Dec 2016, 10:55 pm

^^^ :wtg:



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18 Dec 2016, 11:06 pm

auntblabby wrote:
^^^ :wtg:


Thanks!


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19 Dec 2016, 2:00 am

Not really, it seems to be a kind of good analogy for the experience of having aspergers...especially if you weren't diagnosed as child and went through life wondering why you were different from everyone else, and much of the time not on the same level like more so than just general personality differences. I remember at one point I thought maybe I literally was an alien...like maybe my parents gave birth to a different child and somehow aliens abducted that one and switched it with me.


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