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Holy crap, that's quite a list made up there but I can certainly relate to about half of it.

I was going to start a campaign to raise awareness about asperger's, but the only slogan I could think of was, "Take somebody you can't stand being around out to lunch."

Greentea, you be talkin' about this stuff like it's something you just now noticed. Ain't you got like a lifetime of experience or something?

I got me a really simplistic view of things, since I'm just some dumbass redneck.

See, for some reason I don't understand at all, the spirit decides to sit down at the cowboy saloon card table of mortality and gets dealt a hand of DNA. Gotta play the game with the cards you're dealt, since that's the definition of the game.

Some spirits get dealt blindness, some spirits get dealt legs that don't work, some spirits get dealt... well, it's a long list, and I'm one of the spirits on that list, same as all the others.

I can't see no point in talking about which DNA card hand is worse. I'd just say they're different and leave it at that.

That, and there ain't no doubt that human life is temporary. It's not like I have to make a career out of it.

I know, CW. I do tell myself that all the time, and I do believe it. However, you must agree with me that getting an ARSE is quite a bad deal of cards to get...("Annoying Reject Syndrome Evaluation")

Yeah, me too. I do love being isolated (sometimes I go through periods of extreme extroversion and socializing, but to me it's more like a job I enjoy; but never a natural state, and I can't maintain it indefinitely), but I get lonely. At the moment I'm not too bad simply because I never get *enough* isolation (being a 20 year old who lives between college and home), so I crave it more than company.

Anyway, I can't speak for anyone else on this site obviously (who knows, maybe I'm speaking to a massive room full of computer intelligences? ) but I'm a real person. And I'm certain we'll meet up at some point - we don't live that far away, and we have similar interests. I'll probably come along to one of your art exhibitions/talk/something, I would thoroughly enjoy it (although my painting is currently not happening at the moment due to stress; I can never make art once I'm past a certain stress threshold).

oh thanks sunshower> maybe we will even meet up at an ASD talk in Brisbane. if ever you are speaking again, let me know.
I would make the rare trek up to the city on the train.

after reading that list of symptoms I feel physically sick. Whoever said aspergers isn't a disease is a liar. What's worse is I have 99% of those symptoms, I don't feel like an individual, but a disease embodied

I have most of them too...but I don't feel diseased.

There are positive traits too as well as negative ones.

Sure . Irrespective, send me a PM if you're ever in Brisbane (for whatever reason)/doing something art related and I will come/help out. I think I'd prefer to go to one of your Art related things, my idea of a good day out - something art related! than listen to myself attempting public speaking again (shudder).

I think it would be good to start a thread that frames the traits in a positive light, wherever possible.

Good idea I'll start with the first 5:

1. Stubborn
2. honest
3. individualistic
4.carefree
5.trusting


anybody wanna keep it going?

Oh my. I read that list and ASD people are horrible! I should change immediately to what NT's think is normal! (SARCASM)
Seriously, if anyone bothered to make a positive list, they'd quickly realise how brave ASDs are and how many skills they have. The person who made that list with such a negative spin should learn some compassion! Pfft.

Haha they mean an NT-orthodox manner of course.
Have they never heard about aspie orthodoxy?

I have met hundreds of Aspergians, whether online or in the physical, and none of them are what I would describe as care free, unless it was the direct consequence of some kind of psychiatric medication.

I'm not exactly carefree, but I am certainly more carefree than most people ever will be capable of. Just don't try to force caring on me, that gets messy...

You CAN change. That is what you don't understand.

Be calm and focus on being friendly, funny, and ACTING outgoing. Being outgoing doesn't come naturally to us, so we have to ACT friendly.

Understand you will fail, fail again, fail again and continue to fail over possibly years. Learn from your mistakes. Eventually, you will be able to relate to people and keep a job.[/quote]


So could you but I bet you are working on that.

I have already reached that point, cept I am still not outgoing, and I still don't have good interview skills