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butterfly222
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14 May 2014, 10:58 pm

What are we?

This strange reality we live in

Forced to go by society's rule

Living in a grey neuro typical world

Is a question I feel too many people on a wrong planet are asked


What are we?

We strange beings with our various ticks and tricks

Are we

Quirky

Weird

Cool

Nice

Kind

Smart

Aloof

Dumb

Emontiolneless

Heartless

Or beings with so much emontion that we can't contain it to a simple smile and some happy words

It can range from hand flapping to a imagination and then to a poem

Who are we?

Aspies f different colors, identies, backgrounds , and personalities

Of various hearts and souls


So much to this who are we?

Say hello and find out

About the wrong planet aspies



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14 May 2014, 11:13 pm

I believe we are beings made to experience things. We gather information such as stimulus from our five senses, possibly more, then we experience them. Through our brain, via conditioned response, or habit, we are then to judge these experiences as bad or good; painful or pleasurable. These judgments are stemmed and interconnected from past experiences that we have also judged. I believe we can change our experience of things being good/bad or painful/pleasurable by changing our judgment of them. I believe this can be applied to anything including "painful things" that make you suffer. Johnny Appleseed could thaw ice with his bare feet and not suffer from the cold because he was a master at changing his judgment and beliefs of what's painful and pleasurable. American Indians could often stand waist deep in ice cold water to go fishing using the same process. We also have the ability to do this- changing the judgment of what's good/bad, painful, or pleasurable. May sound tough, but it's really simple, you only have judged this idea of being "tough" or "impossible." That's what I believe we are.


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14 May 2014, 11:16 pm

I lkke your description and hoped you enjoyed the poem!



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15 May 2014, 5:16 am

We are everything you say.

Looking at the same world, from eyes that function no differently than anyone else's, having the same feelings anyone else would, maybe at different times, maybe shown in slightly different ways.

The same in every way that matters, so far as I can tell

Yet clearly not the same

Not accepted, not acceptable in or to the world

Seen as blind deaf and dumb, and tolerable only for what we do or offer in the moment



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15 May 2014, 5:17 am

I can understand that feeling. :(



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15 May 2014, 5:49 am

butterfly222 wrote:
I can understand that feeling. :(

Thank you for your poem. IRW it feels like I am locked in

There are all these rules, all these expectations. I follow most of them. I really try. It's never enough to make me seem truly normal, and I have nothing left of me inside



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15 May 2014, 7:00 am

We are the poets
We are the engineers
We are the soul
We are the quiet
We are the delight


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15 May 2014, 7:07 am

syzygyish wrote:
We are the poets
We are the engineers
We are the soul
We are the quiet
We are the delight

We are the backbone that makes things work
The invisible who no one sees
Except to say how draining bad exhausting we are
And then go through the cycle again
We are the backbone
Who cannot feel so far as others let themselves know
Whose truth cannot be allowed to exist

We are all that you say, and all that I say and more
In the eyes of others, we are nothing
We cannot exist



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15 May 2014, 7:10 am

I'm glad my poem helped someone.


To the cries of freedom to the halls of fame

Remember the persknbs name


We are more than a diagnose more than shame

For you know no one is the same



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15 May 2014, 8:21 am

Waterfalls wrote:
syzygyish wrote:
We are the poets
We are the engineers
We are the soul
We are the quiet
We are the delight




We are the backbone that makes things work
The invisible who no one sees
Except to say how draining bad exhausting we are
And then go through the cycle again
We are the backbone
Who cannot feel so far as others let themselves know
Whose truth cannot be allowed to exist

We are all that you say, and all that I say and more
In the eyes of others, we are nothing
We cannot exist


You're the the birth and the death
the life and the breath




You've been poisoned!
I've been poisoned

the whole history of humanity
is prorably not my faullt


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17 May 2014, 7:35 am

infilove wrote:
I believe we are beings made to experience things. We gather information such as stimulus from our five senses, possibly more, then we experience them. Through our brain, via conditioned response, or habit, we are then to judge these experiences as bad or good; painful or pleasurable. These judgments are stemmed and interconnected from past experiences that we have also judged. I believe we can change our experience of things being good/bad or painful/pleasurable by changing our judgment of them. I believe this can be applied to anything including "painful things" that make you suffer. Johnny Appleseed could thaw ice with his bare feet and not suffer from the cold because he was a master at changing his judgment and beliefs of what's painful and pleasurable. American Indians could often stand waist deep in ice cold water to go fishing using the same process. We also have the ability to do this- changing the judgment of what's good/bad, painful, or pleasurable. May sound tough, but it's really simple, you only have judged this idea of being "tough" or "impossible." That's what I believe we are.


omg!


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