The price of non-conformity

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As some of you may know, I pride myself in being different and refusing to fit in with normal people. While I still stand by that, it does have a price: Loniness.

There is no one around me that I can relate to. Sure I have my family, but none of them are aspies. I just want to find another aspie to relate to and love me for who I am.

Ditto all of that, except that I did find a fellow aspie eventually. I finally realized that I had to accept a happy medium. I still am and pride myself on being different and just who I am, but I try to conform in situations where there will be a benefit to myself and/or my family (husband and children). I was quite lonely for some time, in terms of lacking friendships.

Hmm, I may have to conform a little after all. I suppose it's alright as long as I'm still an individual. She's out there somewhere, waiting for me.

By the way Mikomi, I have storylines in mind for video games and one of my characters is named Mikomi.

If people don't like the way that I present myself, than they don't have to look at me.

When I was at school, I had a group who were "the non-conformists".

Once, a teacher asked me, if I was such a non-conformist, then why was I conforming to a particular activity that I liked?

I replied that I didn't want to conform to "non-conformity" either.

You have to conform a little sometimes.

Imagine being a London-minded Punker, in a town of conservatives, and hippies. I get the cat calls shouted at my window, late at night, because people know that the young person living in my apartment is very different, from most Canadians my age. Does it bug me? It used to, but it doesn't, anymore. I've decided that if I'm going to be different, that I was going to need to grow a tough skin. I was more than able to do that. The clubhouse that I go to, is Stepping Stones. If there wasn't a Stepping Stones, I would be very lonely. Would it bug me. On one hand, it would bug me, because I'd have no friends, my age. On the other hand, it wouldn't bother me, because I'd have a lot of free time on my hand, to do my own thing.

Another Democratic message, from the Alternative Sid Party. :O)