How do you think you'd have lived with AS in past centuries?

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I think I'd have ended up like some of the characters in Dickens.

Prolly Mister Mawcaber ....

let's see.

A time before big bright lights....awesome

A time when kids actually went to school to learn instead of trying to outdo each other with how much they could throw spit wads.....great!

No loud cars....awesome

Not everyone took baths every single day...cool

Classical music was in....awesome

No loud weed eaters....awesome

Brilliant people were in and admired

Now it seems our world has shifted into social skills over mind.

If I could have avoided a lingering, painful death from one of the aforementioned causes, I would have loved it, I think. If I could have been an eccentric recluse with the means to feed myself, that is.

Well, my problem with any such speculation is my Marfan syndrome--if I'd lived any time prior to the late 19th Century, I'd have died in my early teens, since, with a restricted livestyle and the best medical treatment possible, my aorta blew when I was 19.

So, if I was *not* a Marfan, but otherwise "me," it really wouldn't matter today or past--I'd be some kind of missionary, desert hermit, exorcist and/or prophet. I dare anyone to go through Butler's Lives of the Saints and point out someone who would not be labeled ADHD, bipolar, Autistic, Asperger's, schizophrenic or OCD by modern psychologists--which, to me, just proves that these "disorders" are, fundamentally, "traits," and it's only upbringing and social norms that turn them into disorders.

Here's another one:

During any war era, Aspies would have been used as bait!

I think that I would have managed in life OK in a small village - as a woman noone would have blinked an eyelid at me hardly speaking. The thing that worries me is the depression which started in my teens - I guess it would depend on my family. If they hushed up the suicide attempts and kept me at home I might have been OK (although maybe without medication I would never have got better), but I can imagine being sent off to the lunatic asylum, and spend my entire life locked up there in appalling conditions, becoming completely crazy due to the surroundings and complete lack of hope.

I would of been EMPEROR!! !

I'd conquer the world.
Nations would crumble under my boots.

Or I'd live a quiet life of seclusion on an island and live by my wits and a knife.


but no.....
in the 20/21 century, there are labels and medications that suck all of the fun out of derangement!!

oh well!! !

Some sort of holy man (or woman), shaman, monk, recluse, hermit, healer especially in earlier times when the connection with nature was less shattered. Witches before they were called witches I think were herbalists. Being in Salem MA in the 1600's might have been dangerous.

i would be the guy people think is being contrled buy a demon.

It would depend on the time, the place, and the station you were born into. If you were born a peasant, it's extremely unlikely you'd end up as an alchemist up in a castle tower, poring over tomes of Hermetic magick into the wee hours.