Autism/ASD=wild animal trapped in a humans body?

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I dont know why but sometimes I feel like a wild animal trapped in a humans body and can actually relate more to wild animals than other people and sometimes even more than to pets. Does anyone else feel this way? I also have issues of trusting others I dont know and am always alert!

i've found i have a lot in common my hamster carlton.
he hates being waken up, so do i. we both hate touch, and being picked up. (he squirms WAY more than my other 2 hamsters)
also we both have...dry skin.

wild animal in a person's body huh? that sounds...................kinky.

I thought about how Temple Grandin can see a feed lot through the eyes of an animal (and alter it accordingly so food animals go to the slaughter floor calmly without injuring themselves) and wondered about this myself. Like maybe we have a different type of empathy. I can't understand how ordinary people can work with battery chickens, animals stuck in a cage they can't even move in for their whole lives, then go home and get to sleep at night. I think I have a lot more empathy and compassion for animals than humans.

Even though I overall feel more like an intelligent "alien" in a human body, or in some ways a "post-human animal", I do feel that I share a lot in common with housecats personality wise. I'm lazy, I generally prefer to be solitary, I sometimes suck up to other people for attention or food and drink, I like to fidget with things, and I can be tempermental. I find NTs tend to be more like dogs, and aspies like myself tend to be more like cats.

I can relate a lot to snakes and handling snakes I know they feel insecure when they cannot wrap their tail around something when handling because they dont want to fall as similar as myself clinging to things out of attachment and fear of change!

I feel like I can relate to cats a lot, but not to other animals. Dogs seem quite strange to me, for example.

I am defintely much more of a cat person than a dog person. I feel like I can easily bond with cats, but I can do little more than tolerate living with a dog (and I struggle with that at times with my brother's dog...)

I am actually very cat like. I hate to admit it really because I'm allergic to cats and I even do my best to ignore them.

I think I might be a little bit in denial of my true nature.

NT people feel this way too. And its not really weird because we "are" all wild animals inside human skins. Our nervous systems are the same as other animals as are our instincts but our societys socialise us to behave and think in certain human centric ways. It makes sense that anyone who struggles with that integration for whatever reason, autism included, is going to feel more animal than socialised human.

I think KC73 makes an excellent point, and I'd also like to add that I echo the sentiments expressed so many times above that I often feel like a cat trapped in a human body... and yes, I do understand cats a lot better than dogs.

There's a Wolfman stuck deep inside me--he only comes out when he is perturbed.

I'm totally agreeing with the last three posts - it is a standing joke within my family that I should have been born a CaveMan.

Another name for 'socialisation' is 'civilisation', and my own feeling is not that I am trapped in a human body, but that I am trapped by the human Code of Conduct.

But many of the early adventurers, explorers, scientists, conquerors etc are suspected of having some autistic traits - so maybe civilisation as we know it was only made possible by the activities of individuals who were themselves reluctant to accept the process of civilisation which they were fully engaged in.

There is less scope in the modern world for individuals to generate massive change - nearly everything these days is the result of some massive corporate teamwork (even though the entrepreneurs at the very top of the corporate world are definitely very often loners) - maybe neuro-diversity played an important part in arriving at our current evolutionary position, but it is now redundant...

The human race struggles more and more to come to terms with its own animal instincts (particularly aggression and sexual desire).

We have to have sexual desire--otherwise we die as a species.

Some of the manifestations of sexual desire involve courtship displays--amply evident when one reads the Love and Dating Forum. Much of what sexual desire entails is intangible; nothing can be "proven" via scientific studies--only via real life, which, I believe, is best at making the intangible tangible.

I feel like a wild human trapped in a "civilized" society.

Yes - but Civilised Society struggles to know how to deal with that fact.

We are bombarded with ever more extreme illustrations of sexual activity, and from carefully planned Celebrity Wardrobe Failures through to hard-core pornography, sex in our civilised society is not only a way to ensure our survival, but is also a way to make an awful lot of money.

But as soon as somebody looks at, speaks to, or touches somebody else 'inappropriately', we are dealing with a criminal offence.

In the Wild, they just get on with it - have you ever watched the stuff female ducks have to put up with? In my local pond, gangbangs are routine! The idea of inappropriate behaviour is a human invention, and it changes with time.

Same. I've always thought dogs were kind of weird, but cats make sense.