Would you rather live 80 years as an aspie or 40 as an NT?

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just a thought...

How is that even a question? I like being Aspie.

Why would anyone want to be an NT? They are so boring and have so many weird issues and fight with each other and they get mundane jobs.
Aspie is better with life as female Aspie the absolute funnest and best.

I think I get it. Men are the ones who don't want to be Aspies because they cannot woo the women as easy. It's understandable. I get that.

I don't mind being an aspie, but would rather die in an interesting manner at 40 than live to 80, because getting old pretty much sucks. Just my opinion.

And I am sure that there are PLENTY of autistic people who could EASILY fit into that description...in fact I know some of them, well I don't have a job, and I try not to fight with people that much, but NTs aren't prone to that sort of behavior more than us. Maybe they have more opportunities to be bullies because of having more social influence and power, but given that influence and power, autistics can be just as bad...just as we can be just as good.

As for the topic of the post, I plan to live to whatever age I live to, as me, who is autistic, so if that is age 80 then it would be option one, but otherwise then there is none applicable.

I answered 80 because I'll be 40 in less than a month... Which would mean I'd be dead. That would kinda suck.

Heh, if I had my ultimate choice it would be age twenty five forever. I would be an eternal twenty five year old.
I don't really want to be eighty. That's so old. I seriously wonder if I have the physicality to reach eighty. Most likely: no.
Let me put it this way:
I would live to be an 80 year old healthy, robust, Aspie.
As for being an NT I have been around nothing but NTs my whole life I do not envy them one bit, in fact can't understand how they can exist so mundanely and not find it absolutely tediously boring. I do not envy them but I do wonder how they can do such mediocre things and not tire of it. That makes me wonder.
And it makes me wonder
No, seriously, I am far too creative, oddball and eccentric to trade it in for anything mundane.
This way I am writing now is more of the eccentric me. One "special interest" I have is writing and I try to explore it.
Earthmonkey:
I don't know anyone with AS but me, or an ASD that I know of except for people posting on WP.
So I can't say that I know about any of them being that weird. I have seen plenty of dysfunctional NTs. Do I envy them?
NO.
I might if I was a guy without a woman. It isn't the same for guys. I keep reminding myself two seperate genders here and I have to remember I am a female experiencing AS. I cannot speak for all women with AS. Probably, if I were a guy I might mind having AS more.

oh that's our ONLY problem? do me a favour and just f**k off.

Xanderbeanz I wasn't trying to be rude, I was just trying to figure things out.

sorry, i found that assumption majorly offensive.......finding a girl is the least of our problems when, what should be simple human transactions, are (or have been) such an emotional drain for us.

Xander:
I'm sorry, I was just going by what I have seen people post on WP and using some deductive reasoning. I realize I wasn't accurate. Human transactions are emotionally draining and I admire you for having the determination to try to figure them out and excell at them.

i will apologise for swearing...but yeah....any time anyone tries to oversimplify things...i usually throw several huge spanners in their theories......im just the theoretical misanthrope x

Ow.. This is a hard one... Technically it's possible to either be miserable or happy both as an NT or an aspie... So I really can't choose.
Maybe if there was a choice called "80 years as a happy aspie"/ or "nt" then I would pick that one.

it may have taken about 7 more years....but at the age of 25 i feel like im about as mature and socially capable as an 18 year old.....so for that fact alone im going for the 80 years of aspieness.....plus, if you've always been NT, you're not gonna appreciate the progress you've made, and you're not gonna celebrate acceptance, and every small step you've made. x

I would rather live 40 years as an Aspie than 80 years as an NT. I would rather live 400 years as an Aspie than 80 years as an NT.

Extremely seconded. An NT friend of mine at college was talking to me and lamenting how she doesn't feel as good about her social life here at uni as she did at the community college she transferred from, and yet she's still doing better socially than I am, and I'm positively thrilled and astounded at the level of social acceptance and integration I've been greeted with since arriving at university.