Who is normal anyway? Everyone's got their flaws and their weird ways, and you just get some who have less weird ways than others. I used to feel weird to the other kids when I was at High School and even at college, but since I've started work I started to realise that there are so many different types of people, and everybody's got their own unique personality, and in every workplace there is always going to be one of two more odd people, so what does it matter any more? People get used to meeting different kinds of people that they soon take no notice (especially old people). Unless you're really someone out of the ordinary, like somebody with a severe neurological disability who needs a carer everywhere they go, I don't think you can stand out that much, since everybody's different from eachother. I know other Aspies may not see this and may feel more different to NTs, but this is just the way I feel. At my work we've had a lot of strange people come and go, who seem much more weird than me. OK, I may sometimes say a weird thing more than others, but it's still nothing to make people think I'm completely weird altogether. Most people at my work usually consider people's weird ways as ''just the way they are''.
Anyway, I believe in this expression, ''it's not what you do it's the way you do it''.
I worked with a professional psychiatric nurse once (she was doing voluntary work where I work one day a week), and we got to know eachother well, but she never, ever guessed I was on the autism spectrum until I told her. She was really surprised. But she did guess that I had an anxiety disorder (which I have), but she never noticed any AS in my personality. And she said that she's met other Autistic people and guessed their condition right away.
So maybe I'm just a type of Aspie who doesn't show many symptoms when I'm with other people.
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22 Feb 2011, 7:30 pm
