Do you feel like a platypus sometimes?

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I ask this question, hoping people will click on the thread and respond because I feel like a platypus all the time. For the unfamiliar, the concept of this phrase comes from the small odd amphibious like mammal. They're built for sea, but still are furry, they can go on land, but have webbed feet, and are mammals, yet lay eggs. Full of inconsistencies.

Anyway, I feel like this because being aspie, one of my aspsessions is computers and cars. Yet I cannot do math to save my life (how i was diagnosed). So programming and other activities are particularly difficult. It was my childhood and life-long dream to attend MIT and get a degree in computer science, but the dream was deferred and dashed. I like to work on cars, love to learn about automotive theory, but am so clumsy, I break tools and usually wind up cutting and/or burning myself every time I work on the vehicle. Long story short, I feel like I'm cut out for something, but cannot completley engage in it because of some shortcoming.

Does anyone else feel this way about their AS? Feel like a platypus all the time?

I've never thought about it that way... always as I was some kind of stranger visiting earth. Hmm... that's an interesting thought, to be a platypus and all. I think the animal to describe how I feel right at the moment would be a chimera.

as a female that can't participate in gossiping and group conversation i feel like a bird that can't fly.

when i was younger i was really interested in astonomy, biology and genetics and i was convinced i was going to be some sort of scientist when i grew up. but when i got to high school we were expected to learn about physics and more advanced chemistry and i couldn't grasp it to save my life. i ended up leaving school with no grade for science what so ever. so i guess that's my platypus symptom.

I eat without manners, i sleep when i want, expect my people to clean up after me, like routine, growl at people until i am sure that they arent a threat and spend most of the day sitting about scratching them. Im more of a dog.

I feel like an ostrich who lives in the North Pole: malsuited for the environment, long and gangly, discoordinated and awkward (though I, myself, am not long and gangly-- I just feel like it in many situations).

Now if I could only get back to Africa...

I'm a total platypus, and life seems to only want to make me more so. Examples that immediately come to mind are that I was very, very against dating (not for moral reasons but because I thought it was a bad idea, as the child of a broken home) and now have a boyfriend. I am a total pessimist and am now taking a posotove psychology class. The universe is screwing with me.

I used to feel like a platypus because I've always known I was highly intelligent and talented yet because I was born an aspie, I didn't have the social skills or charisma that would make people notice. Nowadays, I've learned to accept myself and appreciate the good I have to offer without needing validation from others. Interestingly, when I stopped wanting to change myself, that's when people finally started seeing the good things within me.

Want to know the animal I feel like now? Look at my avatar!

Actually, I feel more like a PhoenixKitten. That's even more confusing than being a platypus. At least people agree that the plural of platypus exist! Try explaining to someone that you are a kitten which spontaneously combusts every now and then, before being reborn from the ashes... *mutters something about no wonder people confuse Autism with Schizophrenia...*

yes... to cut it short I do feel like that alot, although I don't know if I'd describe myself exactly as a platypus... I just can't think of the right animal at the moment.