Do you find that having Aspies allows you to think unusualy?

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I mean, about deep philosophy and stuff? I do. For example, when we studied the romans, greeks, mideival and feudal ages in 6th and 7th grade, I actually feel nostalgic for those times. I mean, the greeks and the romans with the gladiators, the odyssey and the knights with the cool music, castles, and advanced siege weapons.

I was the only one in my Geometry Class in High School to get an A+

So, yes.

My AS allowed me to research everything I liked thoroughly.

Oh yeah. Sometimes I come up with cool solutions to stuff. Other times I am just old weird Laura.

I don't think the same "rational" way that NTs do.

I have a more tolerant way of thinking than most people, because I've been ostracized, some way or another, for most of my life.

I WISH I had a bunch of aspies to play with. Got to settle over the net though, I guess.

Actually... Funny thing, I've become deeply engrossed in philosophy. I am extremely interested in different philosophies, you see... By my reasoning there is no right and wrong. Just whats right for me, I look at the way other people are living their lives, I'm disgusted. I don't understand them, however my beliefs lead me to believe all right and wrong is relative.


Can there be one right for everyone? If so then me and you are wrong, we have aspergers, were different. We cannot behave and be the way other people are. If a man is hungry is it wrong for him to steal to eat, or steal to feed his family? Very simple moral conundrums, when it comes to any moral conundrum I go off in my in every direction examining it until something jogs me back to whatever is going on around me.

When I was eleven or so I thought about how humans would deal with the problem the Sun expanding to the point of destroying the Earth in the future. I concluded that the Earth would have to be abandoned due to there not being enough physical resources to create a "tow rope" to pull the Earth out of harms way and fuel the necessary spaceship to perform this task. Also an explosion with sufficient thrust to disturb the Earth's orbit would most definately have too great a destructive impact on the planet. I don't know if there really is any good way to move the earth onto a new orbit but this is the kind of thing I thought about in late primary/early highschool. Colonization or some kind of Spaceport would seem to be the only feasible solution.

Iruka:
I think you have touched very much on perception there. What is good for one person is not necessarily good for another, I agree. The more I learn about the world we live in the more frustrated I become by the fact that there is no perfect solution to any problem, no perfect black and white. I think traffic lights are a good example of a simple solution to a complex problem. The lights have their set cycles, yet do not compensate when for example when no cars are coming from the opposite direction and it is safe for say one waiting car to make the right turn. Speed limits are another one. It is nearly impossible to set the perfect speed limit for every situation, every driver's skill level, every car's abilities, every weather condition etc. So instead a one size fits all method is employed. Economics also plays a big role here.

I will leave it at that before I go completely bananas and write a five million page book but there is nothing I enjoy more than having the ability to think about things.

Yes, when I was a kid, I wondered if other people see the world like me, like the colors, do they percieve them the same? I find myself having very different values from the norm, which opens ways of seeing things anew, only society is limiting. sadly. If I had been accepted as I am, would have been great, oh well. I still dont want to be anybody else.

Yes. Able to see forests AND the trees which allows for superior analyzing abilities. Can make instant leaps in thought that turn out to be correct. Can learn anything quickly. What is the name of this thread again? The memory seems to be going though.

Nope, I just think about other things.