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Would you rather live 80 years as an aspie or 40 as an NT?
80 years as an aspie 87%  87%  [ 71 ]
40 years as an NT 13%  13%  [ 11 ]
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17 Oct 2008, 11:45 pm

good for you....go get em george :) x



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18 Oct 2008, 12:43 am

I feel like I have fewer mental problems than NTs do. A lot of my problems in caring for myself have been caused by NTs who decide to "deal" with my reality in a destructive manner. It's pretty destructive when your mother won't let you learn how to drive and even worse when she does it by trickery and BS.

What they did to me proves that they cannot possibly be healthy and that their superiority is a pretense. They band together to defeat greater intellect using superior force even if one of them can probably take the victim.



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18 Oct 2008, 7:30 am

Remnant wrote:
I feel like I have fewer mental problems than NTs do. A lot of my problems in caring for myself have been caused by NTs who decide to "deal" with my reality in a destructive manner. It's pretty destructive when your mother won't let you learn how to drive and even worse when she does it by trickery and BS.

What they did to me proves that they cannot possibly be healthy and that their superiority is a pretense. They band together to defeat greater intellect using superior force even if one of them can probably take the victim.


Not necessarily in greater intellect but they do band together. They get their strength from their numbers. Like schooled fish, the impression of the many gives the psyche the illusion of one huge whole.
That's pretty scary.



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18 Oct 2008, 8:55 am

80 as an aspie. To be clear, it isn't because I don't like Non-autistics. It's just because I've been this way forever, why would I suddenly want to not be like I've always been? 8O


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18 Oct 2008, 9:57 am

Speaking as a 40 year old, the whole dying at 40 thing is a slightly sensitive issue...



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18 Oct 2008, 12:55 pm

40 year old NT. Who on earth would want to live twice as long, but with AS haunting you the whole time?



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18 Oct 2008, 1:01 pm

Mosse wrote:
40 year old NT. Who on earth would want to live twice as long, but with AS haunting you the whole time?


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Care to explain what is so great about being an NT?
Who would you rather be? Someone who creates something, adds something to society or someone who just consumes and takes?
Being neurotypical isn't any better than being unneurotypical it's all in how you view it.
In my estimation it's much better to be a creative genius who adds something.
Everybody reading this do your best to be a creative genius and you will be surprised how many NTs you win over this way. You don't have to play defeatist NT games to get respect and friends you can use your special interest to woo others. You can be yourself and have plenty of friends if that's what you want.



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18 Oct 2008, 1:06 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Mosse wrote:
40 year old NT. Who on earth would want to live twice as long, but with AS haunting you the whole time?


Mosse
Care to explain what is so great about being an NT?
Who would you rather be? Someone who creates something, adds something to society or someone who just consumes and takes?
Being neurotypical isn't any better than being unneurotypical it's all in how you view it.
In my estimation it's much better to be a creative genius who adds something.
Everybody reading this do your best to be a creative genius and you will be surprised how many NTs you win over this way. You don't have to play defeatist NT games to get respect and friends you can use your special interest to woo others. You can be yourself and have plenty of friends if that's what you want.


1. You're not different.

2. You're not being stalked by social therapists.

3. You can make and keep a lot more friends.

4. No one would be afraid to hire you.

5. You aren't shunned by society.

6. You can live a perfectly normal life.

And I'd rather take from society. :lol:



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18 Oct 2008, 1:09 pm

Mosse wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Mosse wrote:
40 year old NT. Who on earth would want to live twice as long, but with AS haunting you the whole time?


Mosse
Care to explain what is so great about being an NT?
Who would you rather be? Someone who creates something, adds something to society or someone who just consumes and takes?
Being neurotypical isn't any better than being unneurotypical it's all in how you view it.
In my estimation it's much better to be a creative genius who adds something.
Everybody reading this do your best to be a creative genius and you will be surprised how many NTs you win over this way. You don't have to play defeatist NT games to get respect and friends you can use your special interest to woo others. You can be yourself and have plenty of friends if that's what you want.


1. You're not different.

2. You're not being stalked by social therapists.

3. You can make and keep a lot more friends.

4. No one would be afraid to hire you.

5. You aren't shunned by society.

6. You can live a perfectly normal life.

And I'd rather take from society. :lol:


Mosse,
That is just a bunch of fallacies and distortions in your head.



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18 Oct 2008, 1:10 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Mosse wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Mosse wrote:
40 year old NT. Who on earth would want to live twice as long, but with AS haunting you the whole time?


Mosse
Care to explain what is so great about being an NT?
Who would you rather be? Someone who creates something, adds something to society or someone who just consumes and takes?
Being neurotypical isn't any better than being unneurotypical it's all in how you view it.
In my estimation it's much better to be a creative genius who adds something.
Everybody reading this do your best to be a creative genius and you will be surprised how many NTs you win over this way. You don't have to play defeatist NT games to get respect and friends you can use your special interest to woo others. You can be yourself and have plenty of friends if that's what you want.


1. You're not different.

2. You're not being stalked by social therapists.

3. You can make and keep a lot more friends.

4. No one would be afraid to hire you.

5. You aren't shunned by society.

6. You can live a perfectly normal life.

And I'd rather take from society. :lol:


Mosse,
That is just a bunch of fallacies and distortions in your head.


And now you call me delusional. 8O



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18 Oct 2008, 1:12 pm

Pffft. I resist social therapy.



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18 Oct 2008, 1:19 pm

I'm 64... my choice was obvious :lol:


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18 Oct 2008, 9:07 pm

80 years as an autistic. Somehow, the thought of having only 15 more years to live doesn't exactly float my boat. :wink:



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18 Oct 2008, 9:08 pm

I enjoy being an Aspie far too much to ever settle for an NT existence.


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18 Oct 2008, 9:21 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Mosse wrote:
40 year old NT. Who on earth would want to live twice as long, but with AS haunting you the whole time?


Mosse
Care to explain what is so great about being an NT?


I agree with Mosse, so I'll take the liberty to address your post.

What's so great about being an NT is that the world we live in was made for NTs, not for people on the autism spectrum.

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Who would you rather be? Someone who creates something, adds something to society or someone who just consumes and takes?


The first, but that has nothing to do with being autistic or NT.

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Being neurotypical isn't any better than being unneurotypical it's all in how you view it.


Being an NT is better than being non-NT, because we live in a world that was made for NTs.

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In my estimation it's much better to be a creative genius who adds something.


I agree, but I'm not sure what being a genius has to do with the topic at hand since geniuses can be NTs or non-NTs.

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Everybody reading this do your best to be a creative genius and you will be surprised how many NTs you win over this way.


Geniuses did not become geniuses. They were born geniuses.

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You don't have to play defeatist NT games to get respect and friends you can use your special interest to woo others.


Not all people on the spectrum have meaningful special interests or the special interests that would woo others.

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You can be yourself and have plenty of friends if that's what you want.


I wonder how many people want to be friends with quiet loners who sit in a corner, make funny noises and can't express even the most basic human emotions.



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18 Oct 2008, 9:31 pm

I've seen NT and I don't like it. Most of normality is pretense, anyway.