Top 1-3 autistic people you admire/are impressed by

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30 Mar 2025, 10:11 pm

Who are the top 1 through 3 autistic people you admire or are impressed by the most?

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1. Has to be autistic or an asparagus
2. Real or fiction characters are acceptable, but no vague entities
3. Can't be Participant626 (would be an obvi lie)
4. Number 4 is only here to avoid making the previous one last

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30 Mar 2025, 10:17 pm

I am impressed by anyone who is autistic and is not as f*cked up as me.



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30 Mar 2025, 11:07 pm

Only myself. :lol: And I'm an unashamed egocentric.


Because I cannot relate to the common stories, common approaches, and common circumstances.

Why should I want that?
It made too many autistics messed up and remain in a pit of whatever.

Whether fictional or nonfictional.
Whether they're in one extremes or so called middle -- they do not belong in a hidden limbo where I reside.



Heck, I barely ever admire any human.
Closest thing I'd ever get towards someone that way is simply outright respect.

Let alone actually be impressed by any. Closest thing I'd get something like that towards anyone is flat out envy.

Rarely ever an autistic gets my respect, never had I ever been impressed let alone be envious towards any autistic.
Because the common stories, while it entices allistics and resonates with other autistics -- it doesn't happen to me, does not appeal to me...

And practically never both.



Sure, the closest thing I'd respect an autistic was basically one of those highly anxious type who doesn't want to be autistic -- and got herself diagnosed with ADHD because she suspected she has.

She's anxious likely because her mom also is. She gets by with what she does while heavily masking.

She's just as emotional as I am, only in a way more different path mostly because of differences between mother's interferences.

Whines a lot about not being a human enough and wanted to join NTs. She doesn't see she's already too human enough.

Will not mention the username. She's no longer active. She finds this forum toxic.

No, I am not in contact with her nor am close to her in any way. Also no, I don't even have particular attachment towards this person. Only that she left a bit of an impression...

What made me respect her is that she ain't a sour grape about it.
And too many opposite parallels of how she couldn't relate to other autistics of particular extremes and common types.

Though, looking back; more like she just doesn't relate to alexithymics, just like I do. Except she doesn't want to be lumped by those cases, and I'd rather be an alexithymic.

For not being a utter zealot that pisses other autistics like accusing others of stopping cure or stealing resources or having a smear campaign against neurodiversity.

That she made her choices -- that's also a big one. That she's also not afraid to express a lot of things.
Well, she masks IRL even at home. But not around posting here.

That, maybe, we can switch lives and be happier that way.
Except we're way both attached towards those around our respective loved ones.


But that is all, really.
Just one username that left an impression on me.
And one that might even be misdiagnosed at that.


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Yesterday, 12:25 am

Edna3362 wrote:
Only myself. :lol: And I'm an unashamed egocentric.

Me was my first thought too. It may be egocentric but self-centredness goes with the turf with autism (auto = self). And I'm not sure it's such a bad thing. Doesn't make you a jerk. Anyway, I'm the only one I know well enough to appreciate all the work I've put in to get to where I am today. And I take all these stories of other people achieving miracles with a pinch of salt. How do I know what's true and what they've distorted to make it look good? Not that I've read much biography. "Great men and women" stories annoy me. I don't like trying to rate people as to who's admirable and who isn't, I might admire this or that about somebody but I think there's nobility and s**t in all of us. It's just a matter of what traits happen to get brought out by what circumstances. I'm not geared up to admiring role models or "influencers." It's all luck.

But if you must have 3 different ones, I suppose Doc Martin, and Saga from The Bridge (Scandinavian version) for the other two. No idea of the relative merits of the 3 of us.

Sorry to rain on the parade. I do that. But it's only my personal take. I'm not saying it's the only valid one.



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I appreciate y'alls honestly. This is why I love us.


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I'm quite impressed by the general knowledge of Anne Hegerty, The Governess of The Chase UK who is on the spectrum : the show changed her life around.

Then there's Susan Boyle whose life was transformed through singing; I still have the video clip from the show where the audience changed from condescension to admiration.


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Yesterday, 1:12 pm

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Then there's Susan Boyle whose life was transformed through singing; I still have the video clip from the show where the audience changed from condescension to admiration.


This one?



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Today, 4:04 pm

Participant626 wrote:
Who are the top 1 through 3 autistic people you admire or are impressed by the most?


WOW! There are too many to choose from!

Maybe Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, and Ludwig van Beethoven? But I'm not sure!

Maybe Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Mark Twain??

Wait a second, what about Nikola Tesla, Michelangelo, and Charlie Chaplin?????


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