Us Unique People?

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Stomping on labels for us UNIQUE people? Don't feel too bad about it, everybody is labelled in one way or another. When did AS people corner the market on uniqueness and declare it their sovereign territory? A person can be unique for far worse reasons than AS.

Here is another trend in AS culture I have issue with. This wallowing in self-pity, this narcisstic obession with our own differentness as a source of greatness. Other people who are not us are bad, so let's crap on them. Other people who are not us are probably us but they're too stupid to realize it. It's vanity. It's elitism, snobbery, and hypocrisy. It's everything we accuse the villanous NTs of being.

Look inward, AS Nation. Be honest about what you see.

Is every moment of our waking lives that of lying, cheating, and stealing?

I don't hate people who aren't "AS", per se, and I don't march about with the AS diagnosis either. In fact AS wouldn't be necessary at all to diagnose if we were living in a society ruled by ourselves. It's the general lack of consciousness present in 'everyone else', and by 'everyone else' I mean those whom are strictly products and copies of, well, everyone else. It's extremely bothersome to look at the world, to look at the people, and to be utterly incapable of knowing they're people, because they all act like tons of ants. And ants DO exist as lower lifeforms, they aren't as advanced as humans, because they're weaker, they follow chemical trails to singular destinations, they bring payloads to the queen. Yeah, this will be mistaken as conceit, egotism, and all that jazz, but I don't make this comparison with hatred, contempt, loathing, only with observation.

It's an aspergers/autism website you're saying this on.

You've got to remeber that we aren't saying we're the only unique ones, but this is an aspergers/autism website so it would make no sense to talk of bipolar uniqueness when the main focus is aspergers.I think everyone is unique really,

But if you're gonna complain about aspie 'uniqueness' then don't do it on a spectrum website.

not to say that you can't be bi-polar and schizophrenic or whatever to be on here, but the purpose of it is for people on the spectrum, so you're going to see...venting.

Beleive me, if you want self pity go to autism speaks or FAAAS.

I certainly don't hat NT's.I only use the world because i don't like the world normal, and alot of times i try to compare non-aspie behavior and aspie behaviour and i'm to lazy to write "non-aspie"

You're telling me how you view non-autistics as insects, lower orders of life, etc., and then say it isn't conceit? It's observation all right, observation of your own conceit.

Tell me how this doesn't make you look bad.

Hi All;

NT's aren't BAD. Hell, I married one. In many ways, she is my window on the world. She is actually the person who recognized I have AS. Something she saw about talking to a person being the same as talking to a chair. Hrmph! In twenty years, I have taught her to comunicate on a rational basis. She accepts me for who I am, and has taught me much about how humans function. I would bet her IQ has increased in that time, and certainly I am less rough around the edges than I once was. I believe aspies ARE in many ways superior, but equally important, in many ways inferior. If this were not the case we WOULD be ruling the world by now.

Regards,

i like people for who they are, i dont understand labels

I don't really either, i just use them so people know what i'm talking about.^^

Ants are the epitome of effiency & order in the animal world. Human society is in many ways inferior to ant society. Referring to NTs as ants isn't really the put-down you were aiming for.

Aspies are the superior race and NTs the inferior variant, you're saying. By whose reckoning? By our own estimation, AS people are superior to Neuro-Typicals. No other group would make that claim for us and about us. The Deaf Nation would say the same thing only about themselves. As would the vegans, environmentalists, organic farmers, evangelicals, etc.

I don't understand your need to feel superior. It's not good for anyone, this kind of thinking. It only leads to trouble. You should concentrate on finding the commonalities that link us all instead of pursuing this elitist bullsh*t. You are no better than your oppressors if in the process of winning your freedom from their tyranny you become an oppressor who tyrannizes.

I'm against elitism. I think that is a very destructive way. I do not present myself here as anything but the voice of reason. Reason and sanity.