Being an Aspie is like...

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Being an Aspie is like...

coming to a four-way STOP and not being sure who got there first.

For me, it's like having mental blinders on, wherever I go.

Never been understood!

lost

...living in a kaleidoscope.

I hate that question. It's like being asked what it is like to be female or American. I've never been male or another ethnicity, so there fore I have nothing to compare it too. I have never had the expirence of being NT. Autistic is what I have been my entire life. I can't answer the question of what it's like to be autistic becuase I have been this way my entire life. I think I'm gonna go ask my bearded dragon what it is like to be a bearded dragon. She was a gecko yesterday and last week she was a moniter lizard.

You seemed to get treated differently. It's okay for others to do things but when you do them, people get mad at you for it.

Being on a strange colourful cloud with a blindfold and its always raining while everyone is on earth having a party

No i take that back

Its actually............... Living in China while speaking Russian but you can only understand French

...hell.

Perpetual culture shock.

kinda interesting - now, at 63
going through the angst, anger and associated gnashing of teeth was not a lot of fun, actually sucked.
but at some point I stopped self medicating, became comfortable in my own skin and became accepting and things turned around.
didn't have the benefit? of a diagnosis back then not at all sure it would have helped.
In some strange ways my condition has been something of an advantage in others not so much

Ended up getting what I wanted, just not in the timeframe I expected.

Being alone in a crowd... constantly.

Being sat in a train station waiting room trying to entertain yourself until the next train arrives, only to find all the trains are express trains and travel past at speed without stopping.

..... a similie which can't be communicated with a tangible definition.

...walking barefoot through the Atlantic ocean.