Must All Aspies Pass the Emo Tunnel?

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(Please see the thread Underlying Cause of Asperger's Syndrome: Existential Dread? for the assumptions this topic follows from.)

The prototypical manifestation of Asperger's syndrome is as a narrowly focused male who pays great attention to a few obscure or bookish interests while remaining socially oblivious. Affectively, we can describe him as flat, aware more of his own percepts than his social milieu. However, as this site makes clear, aspies face many emotional challenges: suicidal ideation, rage, frustration, depression, loneliness, and more. My theory is that these emotions come into play as the aspie gains more self-awareness and crucially other-awareness. Thus he or she becomes more like the classical emo. Thus acting emo may be a stage en route to an aspie's developing social and emotional maturity, and this is because emo is a phase between NeuroTypicality and Asperger's syndrome:



Anyone care to debate my position?

They were called Goths back in my day.

I don't understand that diagram. And I wouldn't say that it is a phase between NT and aspie, because no one goes between the two (aspies can learn skills, but they don't become NT).

Anyway, I pretty much agree with respect to the seeming necessity of an "emo" phase. Emo is one way of describing the difficulties that most teenagers tend to go through, some earlier or later than others, and some for longer or shorter durations. Personally, I isolated myself from others for a long time. It was only when I was 17 and almost done with high school, that I started trying to interact with other people and make friends. Needless to say, I had much difficulty trying to do so. I experienced the period of "teen angst" (which for most people lasts for maybe a few years) late and in a quick few months--I was just in and out, and it was rough but exciting.

edit: I would say that my case is an example of your "phase between NT and aspie". Of course I didn't change from one to the other, but my attempts to socialize myself made many aspie traits become apparent only for the first time.

I had problems that were caused by bullying by my classmates, my teachers, and my mother. The ones who could articulate such advanced concepts would blame my problems on "being schizophrenic" since Asperger's was not in vogue then. The "authorities" did not allow for any diagnosis of post-traumatic stress, or even allow for any diagnosis that my environment was making me sick. They also saw "illness" that wasn't there.

If there is such a thing as Asperger's or even really such a thing as "autism" it is a difference, and I doubt if in itself it is usually a disability or a disease.

Emo is a music based clique, nothing more.

I do know a few really upbeat and happy 'emo' guys.

Uhh, what does emo mean?

ok, I must be at the intersection, because NC is a non-Union state...

I thought Emo was a really bad comedian back in the 90s... or was that Eno? (Could be either...