Panik wrote:
Agree with you. It is a real pain though to accept that you will never have what most people consider a normal life... is why suicide is always around the corner when the buddhist approach starts failing.
I don't wish my flawed genes on any human being.
My only real strategy around that one is this - do well. Seriously, when I started putting my everything into trying to fix my problems in terms of my attitude as well as my AS back when I was 19 or 20 I wasn't aiming for a normal life because I felt that was impossible. What I did see though is that I didn't have it in me to kill myself, had a good 50 or 60 years to live out, and realized that the severity of that was really based in how well I did for myself and what I put in. I did end up getting a lot more optimistic along the way just by having a lot of friends in the past but then again once I removed myself of that context I realized that it was kinda just that - over-optimism.
As for the Buddhist approach, it has another little bit on suicide that if your doing it to try and get out of this life it's about enough to scare you right out of it. The idea being that if you do kill yourself your being shot right back to earth and living the same life over from the start or a similar life with even less going for you. Just another reason why I'd never mess with it in addition to the fact that most people do just cause brain damage and depreciate their lives rather than get anything done by it. Truth is most people have a degree of misery in their lives and its kinda also like saying "I don't need to stick around - I'm too cool to make myself live out my 70, 80, or 90 years like you all are".