Sometimes I Wish I Weren't Autistic

[chaoticidealism]

Sometimes I wish my Asperger's didn't cause all these hang-ups. Sometimes I meet autistic people who desperately want to be normal. I used to think that being normal, being "one of the girls", was important. Sometimes I still get annoyed that my life seems so uncertain, and that so much of this uncertainty is  tied in with autistic traits that make

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[piyarna]

This issue is in my opinion so saturated by the unacknowledged results of prejucide and abuse that it's almost pointless to discuss it.

Not until that's resolved do I believe that we'll be able to see what autism is and how it affects people.

[malikwurtz]

My "intuition" is that you will not be able to avoid doing so. Like it or not, you are part of me. We are losing what is personal in our interactions with others, empathy and sympathy, in an effort to achieve an impossible neutrality or scientific efficiency that is undesirable in the human realm of social interactions, including adjudication.

[anonymous]

"It's possible to be happy and autistic. All those people show it's possible. And it's also possible to be unhappy and neurotypical."
Very true. Well said. I have seen a lot of NT families and I think, "What are they so miserable about?" Our daughter is autistic and we are quite happy. We struggle with more health concerns than the average family. We love our daughter for who she is and we are so proud of her.
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[pewter_wings]

It has nothing to do with being Autistic as much as it has to do with not being able to reach the same simple goals all of the NT reach without thinking about it.

Math, I love it. I can't remember the language though so I fail it time and time again. I nail everything else, yet this stupid brain of mine refuses to reach its potential.

That is what makes so many say, 'I wish I were NT'.

It's relative

[pewter_wings]

It's like the research that shows money matters when it comes to happiness, but it's really dependent on how much money others are making relative to you. I'm sure people who lived a couple hundred years ago, with all the limitations and hardships of the time, had the capacity to be happy some of the time. Comparing oneself to a standard is the problem.

Re: It's relative

[pewter_wings]

Comparing oneself to another is one way of determining if you can go farther.

[colinmingge]

I’m sure you can go the rest of the way. It ends up with everyone in communal care from birth to… when does education end again.