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10 Jan 2012, 4:19 pm

i like crazy people, different people, wierd people, and i love ret*d people, especially with down syndrome.
and they seem to like me on first sight and come to me. i draw them. i went with my parents to someone's house when i was about nineteen. no one showed interest in me. but the one ret*d man started a conversation with me immediately and tried to "mother" me by asking me to eat. i like him very much.
crazy people usually don't scare me. i've read they found no more violence among schzophrenic people than among "normal" people, in statistic. people are not voilent because they're schizophrenic but because they're mean and have the predator in them. one thing has nothing to do with the other. and ret*d people are usually very gentle and friendly, with an innocence to them.
i also like other autistic people because they understand me and no one else does.



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10 Jan 2012, 4:31 pm

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Damn why the hurry to avoid weird or mentally disabled, disordered people? for one I would feel bad about avoiding someone because they seem unusual or mental not to mention they are intresting to talk to. I mean its weird when you've had better conversations with random homless addicts, scizophrenics ect. then you've had with people in your own family.


I'd try to "escape" from any stranger starting to talk to me when I am minding my own business, especially men, since I find hard to figure out people's intentions. The thing I wanted to point out is that only this kind of people start talking to me randomly.

Also, I can't deny having a difficult time being around people who are less "capable" or less educated than I am. I learned how to behave in such situations, over time, but that's just because other people (eg. parents) told me that I had been rude and I shouldn't act like I did. I don't want people to feel miserable because they can't understand when I speak or because I look blatantly uninterested when they speak.


Well thats not a terrible reason, I was more referring to people who avoid someone simply because they are weird, mentally disabled or have a mental disorder. I mean if you prefer to mind your own buisness and don't really like socalising with people you don't know its natural that means all people you don't know.


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10 Jan 2012, 4:42 pm

I attract old people for some reason, usually from the female gender. It's getting that frequent that it becomes bothersome. Oh and street-vendors.



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10 Jan 2012, 5:43 pm

faerie_queene87 wrote:
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Damn why the hurry to avoid weird or mentally disabled, disordered people? for one I would feel bad about avoiding someone because they seem unusual or mental not to mention they are intresting to talk to. I mean its weird when you've had better conversations with random homless addicts, scizophrenics ect. then you've had with people in your own family.


I'd try to "escape" from any stranger starting to talk to me when I am minding my own business, especially men, since I find hard to figure out people's intentions. The thing I wanted to point out is that only this kind of people start talking to me randomly.

Also, I can't deny having a difficult time being around people who are less "capable" or less educated than I am. I learned how to behave in such situations, over time, but that's just because other people (eg. parents) told me that I had been rude and I shouldn't act like I did. I don't want people to feel miserable because they can't understand when I speak or because I look blatantly uninterested when they speak.


Allllll of this.

I never how to shake people off or deal with less than capable types, not to mention that I too am always trying to escape ANY random encounter with strangers.

I am 99% sure they can tell I want absolutely nothing to do with them, and yet, it never fails.



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10 Jan 2012, 5:45 pm

faerie_queene87 wrote:
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Damn why the hurry to avoid weird or mentally disabled, disordered people? for one I would feel bad about avoiding someone because they seem unusual or mental not to mention they are intresting to talk to. I mean its weird when you've had better conversations with random homless addicts, scizophrenics ect. then you've had with people in your own family.


I'd try to "escape" from any stranger starting to talk to me when I am minding my own business, especially men, since I find hard to figure out people's intentions. The thing I wanted to point out is that only this kind of people start talking to me randomly.

Also, I can't deny having a difficult time being around people who are less "capable" or less educated than I am. I learned how to behave in such situations, over time, but that's just because other people (eg. parents) told me that I had been rude and I shouldn't act like I did. I don't want people to feel miserable because they can't understand when I speak or because I look blatantly uninterested when they speak.


My dad is a homeless schizophrenic.

There's a certain charm but it wears off quickly.



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10 Jan 2012, 5:47 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
faerie_queene87 wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
Damn why the hurry to avoid weird or mentally disabled, disordered people? for one I would feel bad about avoiding someone because they seem unusual or mental not to mention they are intresting to talk to. I mean its weird when you've had better conversations with random homless addicts, scizophrenics ect. then you've had with people in your own family.


I'd try to "escape" from any stranger starting to talk to me when I am minding my own business, especially men, since I find hard to figure out people's intentions. The thing I wanted to point out is that only this kind of people start talking to me randomly.

Also, I can't deny having a difficult time being around people who are less "capable" or less educated than I am. I learned how to behave in such situations, over time, but that's just because other people (eg. parents) told me that I had been rude and I shouldn't act like I did. I don't want people to feel miserable because they can't understand when I speak or because I look blatantly uninterested when they speak.


Well thats not a terrible reason, I was more referring to people who avoid someone simply because they are weird, mentally disabled or have a mental disorder. I mean if you prefer to mind your own buisness and don't really like socalising with people you don't know its natural that means all people you don't know.


Sorry, I thought I had given that impression :)


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10 Jan 2012, 5:48 pm

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Damn why the hurry to avoid weird or mentally disabled, disordered people? for one I would feel bad about avoiding someone because they seem unusual or mental not to mention they are intresting to talk to. I mean its weird when you've had better conversations with random homless addicts, scizophrenics ect. then you've had with people in your own family.


Just to clarify, I have no problem with these people coming up and talking to me. I just find it odd for them to share such intimate things with a relative stranger. Mostly I wonder why they chose me.


This x100000000000.

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10 Jan 2012, 5:52 pm

this makes me think of a person with no arms deriding someone with no legs.


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10 Jan 2012, 5:54 pm

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This thread is very close-minded and offensive.
Most aspies are considered strange and eccentric by normal people.
If you prejudge these people than you should prejudge yourself as well.


Amen.

We're a bunch of weirdos ourselves. I think we have a hard time just accepting that and whenever other eccentric people come around us, we get uneasy since they remind us of parts of ourselves we don't like.

Every single person whom I had close relationships with happened to have some kind of neurological issue, traumatic background, or non-conformist attitude. And it's not like I consciously chose them because of it either. We just happened to "click" on some level I couldn't with "normal" people.


Please.

I've been called "eccentric" all of my life and straight up WEIRD by people who didn't feel like using flowery language.

If you consider yourself to be as crazy as the types I'm talking about, its your business.

I don't consider myself or large percentage of people on the spectrum to be legitimately insane or potentially dangerous.



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11 Jan 2012, 12:31 am

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nirrti_rachelle wrote:
artrat wrote:
This thread is very close-minded and offensive.
Most aspies are considered strange and eccentric by normal people.
If you prejudge these people than you should prejudge yourself as well.


Amen.

We're a bunch of weirdos ourselves. I think we have a hard time just accepting that and whenever other eccentric people come around us, we get uneasy since they remind us of parts of ourselves we don't like.

Every single person whom I had close relationships with happened to have some kind of neurological issue, traumatic background, or non-conformist attitude. And it's not like I consciously chose them because of it either. We just happened to "click" on some level I couldn't with "normal" people.


Please.

I've been called "eccentric" all of my life and straight up WEIRD by people who didn't feel like using flowery language.

If you consider yourself to be as crazy as the types I'm talking about, its your business.

I don't consider myself or large percentage of people on the spectrum to be legitimately insane or potentially dangerous.

You need to be more specific in the original post. You did not say insane or legitimately dangerous.
Your first post sounded to me like you have something against hippies and strange people. Some NTs would consider aspies to be insane.


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11 Jan 2012, 10:12 am

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Do you?

All of my life, it's been this way.

And I can sense it as soon as I walk into any room, before I even see the crazy person, I can just sense the crazy.

Or if I see a person that doesn't even appear to be crazy, I pick up on it, and avoid eye contact at all costs.

And what do you know, they come to talk to me.

Every time, without fail, even when they never speak to anyone else.

I don't get involved with this people (in fact I'm especially good at weeding them out) but it never fails that I draw them out of the woodwork wherever I go.

Why do they like us so much?


Like a magnet.

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11 Jan 2012, 11:59 am

Based on most of the responses to this I am glad I never did develop the habit of trying to start conversations with new people.....hell if they'd just try to avoid me anyways because I don't seem normal I can imagine it would have only brought me down. But weird people can talk to me all they want I don't mind them.


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11 Jan 2012, 2:08 pm

I don't see how being a hippie or looking weird relates with having schizophrenia or being violent and dangerous.


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11 Jan 2012, 4:44 pm

Yes I do. I have always wondered why is that. Not that there was anything wrong with it..



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11 Jan 2012, 5:15 pm

artrat wrote:
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nirrti_rachelle wrote:
artrat wrote:
This thread is very close-minded and offensive.
Most aspies are considered strange and eccentric by normal people.
If you prejudge these people than you should prejudge yourself as well.


Amen.

We're a bunch of weirdos ourselves. I think we have a hard time just accepting that and whenever other eccentric people come around us, we get uneasy since they remind us of parts of ourselves we don't like.

Every single person whom I had close relationships with happened to have some kind of neurological issue, traumatic background, or non-conformist attitude. And it's not like I consciously chose them because of it either. We just happened to "click" on some level I couldn't with "normal" people.


Please.

I've been called "eccentric" all of my life and straight up WEIRD by people who didn't feel like using flowery language.

If you consider yourself to be as crazy as the types I'm talking about, its your business.

I don't consider myself or large percentage of people on the spectrum to be legitimately insane or potentially dangerous.

You need to be more specific in the original post. You did not say insane or legitimately dangerous.
Your first post sounded to me like you have something against hippies and strange people. Some NTs would consider aspies to be insane.


What do you mean I need to be specific?

It was left up to the interpretation of the reader, I'm not sure why so many Aspies include themselves in this group of nutjobs.

*Shrug*.

I don't like hippies, I don't think they're really dangerous but I suppose there was a bit of a sardonic tone behind it.

Otherwise, I don't like crazy people. I don't know. Sure, I've been called "weird" and "eccentric" like a lot of people on the spectrum have but that doesn't mean I would resign myself to associating with people who are more crazy than myself, I don't think most people on the spectrum should choose to do so, either.

CHOICES, CHOICES. So whatever lol.

FWIW I'm saying that i've been there and have grown up around WAY too many of these people so what's "interesting" and "different" about them isn't at all special to me.



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11 Jan 2012, 5:23 pm

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Do you?

All of my life, it's been this way.

And I can sense it as soon as I walk into any room, before I even see the crazy person, I can just sense the crazy.

Or if I see a person that doesn't even appear to be crazy, I pick up on it, and avoid eye contact at all costs.

And what do you know, they come to talk to me.

Every time, without fail, even when they never speak to anyone else.

I don't get involved with this people (in fact I'm especially good at weeding them out) but it never fails that I draw them out of the woodwork wherever I go.

Why do they like us so much?


Like a magnet.

Often-times, an outsider can spot another outsider.

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I get that, but I don't know why.

I look normal enough, and they don't know me at all (have never heard me speak, even).

Like a magnet, yes, it's like I can feel an actual pull.

I go into some place, like, trying to turn the RADAR off and it doesn't work.

There's really nothing about me that should be pulling these people in while i'm not speaking or moving but it's still there, exactly like a magnet.

Sometimes I feel doomed or something, I know that's dramatic but I would love to into ANY PLACE and not attract these types anymore, it causes me a lot of anxiety, while doing very mundane things.