Tribal feelings

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Sometimes I feel downright tribal about aspies, the same way a Jew might feel tribal about Jews. I routinely call them "my people". It seems to me that we're almost a race. We have a set of certain things in common. We have a slang language, a history, literature, movies, and communities. We are a people.

I don't think people outside my culture are inferior; I am only expressing deep communal sentiments.

Does anyone else have deep communal sentiments?

I guess in a way, but no two aspies are alike.

I have been calling aspies "tribies" for quite a while. Glad you are a tribe member Pickwickkian (i can't speel for beenze)

No two anything are alike. No two NTs are alike.
I whole-heartedly agree with MissPickwickian.

Check out http://www.aspergia.com
It has a neat story about a theoretical land mass where Aspies originated from :p

Humans with AS have diffrent brains sure. However i personaly do not want to be seen as a subcuture in the negtive sense. I mean do we point it out so others can understand AS better or do we use as a way to distance from other humans?

Yes I feel tribal... sometimes I feel so tribal I am ready to be a witch doctor... umgawa!

Doctor Mbogo! I will visit en route to my African tapioca mines!

I feel tribal, sometimes. I feel closer to my own kind.

I feel that way sometimes.

I hate tribalism/ethnicism and identity politics.

I admit I feel a bit tribal We are the Aspies of Aspergia, Planet Wrong... ! lol
I haven't really had a tribe until now. It's nice.

Dear MissPickwickian,

I'm new around here and already starting to feel tribal.

The slang may throw me for awhile though.

I'm used to the Myers-Briggs definition of "NT" which stands for "iNtuitive Thinking" = rational, and thus have for years been used to thinking of "NT" as being a good thing, since I test as an INTJ.

Also, I think I have neurotypical parents (but since am new to all this Asperger stuff probably am not knowledgeable enough to be sure) who have accepted me very well throughout my life ... one I consider a Myers-Briggs version of NT Rational, the other an NF Idealist.

Now to my mind it's the SJ Guardians you need to watch out for, and probably what I consider to be an SJ Guardian is what in the Aspie world would be called an NT = neurotypical.

And coming from a sci fi / fantasy fannish background, an SJ Guardian or what Aspies see as an NT would also be called a "mundane."

Anyways, hail and well met, fellow tribe member!

I believe that I belong to an unidentified subgroup of autistics, but not to the autistic population in general.

From none of it all the time to some of it some of the time.

WP is the first place I understood, going through a VHF world with a UHF mind, this is my tribe.

When I hung out with other hippies, I now know that a huge autism spectrum population made up our tribe. We were different but we all were the same in that we really liked our weirdness and were curious about everything.