| Do you suffer from as? |
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| I don't suffer neither I enjoy it, big deal being aspie! |
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NeantHumain
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 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:26 am Post subject: It's a Context Disability |
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| Asperger's syndrome is a context disability analoguous to how being left handed is a context disability in environments set up for right-handers (of course, Asperger's syndrome is probably more disabling in most contexts unless the context is burning lefties at the stake!). There are benefits to the AS cognitive profile set, but since our pool of skills and weaknesses happens to be so different from the norm (and because, where we tend to be strong, we're very strong but where we're weak, we tend to be very weak), the plupart of social contexts will be disabling for us. The ideal would be to mitigate against the disabling contexts while emphasizing our individual strengths. |
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Psycho_jimmy
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Bradleigh
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| sometimes i suffer, such as today i kept making mistakes in setting up equitions at uni, but theres nothing like being heads and sholders above many others. like once created this graph in maths that helped the students visualise a concept that not even the teacher at first understood. |
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matsuiny2004
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I enjoy it. We all have our struggles, social skills just happens to be mine.
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Brittany2907
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I voted for option 3.
I don't suffer from AS, but I suffer from depression that was partly caused by some of the effects of AS (such as social isolation, bullying because of symptoms etc).
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Bradleigh
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| my social skills have been quite bad but i am trying start up convisations, though i think sometimes talking at the right times, espicialy when that person is of a diferent colour or culture (im not racist). |
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NextFact
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| could someon please try to explain to me how you could enjoy having aspergers? |
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Joeker
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I suffered from it as a child; It either was the source of, or caused, suffering.
For a period after I was diagnosed, I took it as being superior to my peers. That quickly faded, since they still beat the tar out of me, despite being so much better at math than them.
Now, consider: Living with AS is all we've ever known. I don't know if it's better or worse, or simply different. If it isn't better to be normal, we'll probably try to stay this way. If it is better being normal, then we'll want to be normal. If it's simply different, it's a moot point; Those who want to get cured will, and those who don't, won't.
Personally, I'd rather be normal. But you know what? Thinking about it won't serve any real purpose; I'm just going to move on with my life, and not waste it wondering if it's really the right life to be living.
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SotiCoto
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Suffer from being what I am?
How is that even supposed to make sense?
I've never NOT been...
And frankly, I would rather be tortured to death than be one of those neurotypical filth.
Whatever troubles I might have in everyday life, it is simply through the inability of the mundies to comprehend that I am, in fact, individually superior to them..... and I'm bloody glad I am.
Suffer I have done, but it is not through what I am so much as what others around me are. They are socially-dependant, scatter-brained, unevolved idiots... and they are many. |
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Joeker
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I've never NOT been either; So how do we know if it's better or worse? We can't, logically, and going off a gut assumption isn't exactly accurate.
Ugh. You're another of those Aspergian supremacists, aren't you? You're just as bad as a Black Panther or a Klansmen. "Mundies," huh? Let me guess, a clever play on Mundane and Darkie, right? That's racial, if neurotypicality is considered a race. As it stands, it's about as offensive as any other racist slur. Amazing; You're turning into the very thing you hate: An ignorant, prejudiced bigot. 
Aspie power, Aspie power. 
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that you're going way too far.
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Bradleigh
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| well i often think that NTs often dont properly analyse a situation. like they often dont stop to think how i feel, and often cant shut up i realy can not understand how in a classroom they continue to talk even though it effects me negativly. From what ive read from these posts we are very analystic and look at all points. also some of these posts are making me think of wizards to mugles and mutants to humans. |
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deadpanhead
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| Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: Re: It's a Context Disability |
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| NeantHumain wrote: | | Asperger's syndrome is a context disability analoguous to how being left handed is a context disability in environments set up for right-handers (of course, Asperger's syndrome is probably more disabling in most contexts unless the context is burning lefties at the stake!). There are benefits to the AS cognitive profile set, but since our pool of skills and weaknesses happens to be so different from the norm (and because, where we tend to be strong, we're very strong but where we're weak, we tend to be very weak), the plupart of social contexts will be disabling for us. The ideal would be to mitigate against the disabling contexts while emphasizing our individual strengths. |
Yeah, that! Very nicely stated Neant. |
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SotiCoto
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Ugh. You're another of those Aspergian supremacists, aren't you? |
The phrase "another one of those" is typically used in a derogatory manner. May I assume you intend it as such here as well?
Oh... and yes. Yes I am.
| Quote: | | You're just as bad as a Black Panther or a Klansmen. "Mundies," huh? Let me guess, a clever play on Mundane and Darkie, right? That's racial, if neurotypicality is considered a race. As it stands, it's about as offensive as any other racist slur. Amazing; You're turning into the very thing you hate: An ignorant, prejudiced bigot. |
Just "mundane". Nothing to do with "darkie", so you can just throw the rest of your stupid assumptions away and quit being a pillock right now... unless you actually enjoy chanting that mundie-styled "racism" nonsense.
They're my primary enemy. I couldn't care less what race, gender, sexuality or whatnot they are. The only thing matters is that they're not Aspergian nor Aut. They're mundane and in denial, and they ought to be re-educated or recycled like yesterday's newspaper.
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that you're going way too far. |
And do you assume that the only strength is in numbers? Such mundane thinking. Believe what you like.... but I don't need anyone to agree with me to know that my cause is justified.
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Bradleigh
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| interesting that you have coined a term. anyway you cant say that you have not been atracted to NTs. though my largest crush was a girl who was to my point of view simular to an Aspie and was a bit of a misfit. others told me she was not pretty at all and looked a bit like a boy, as she had short hair, but to me she was perfect . But alas I could never talk to her, despite the fact we often ended up sitting near each other and stuff all of the time. |
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CockneyRebel
Mick Avory, Sensitive brown-eyed Sweet Pea
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