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scrulie
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I do! This is the thing I like most about being aspie. My inner world is rich and colourful and faberlous! The music I listen to, and the experiences I have, and the dreams I dream all form something inside me that I don't think NTs can ever quite experience. I love being my age (38 ) because I've got so much to remember, even though I've not been the most sociable person.
"What I've got in my head you can't buy, steal or borrow", as Bobby Gillespie sings in Higher Than The Sun, which is about drug experiences of course and I've had plenty of those, but I think the autistic mind contains a richness that others can never imagine. Do you know what I mean? How is it for you? Please share! 
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Sopho
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Yameretzu
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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MrMacPhisto
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I have a strange inner world where I'm famous and I'm popular.
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ChrissandraChrissamba
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| In my inner world no one exists except me and one other person. |
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Sopho
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| I have a girlfriend in mine. |
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fresco
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Kind of, sometimes it can be a dark and insular place when I'm low at others its a place of inspiration and refuge. |
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tomamil
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| i, too, love my inner world. the life would be very empty without it. i would not be able to live the kind of life i do, if i didn't have the inner world so rich. it's a replacement for the real one i desire. |
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BigT
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| I wouldn't describe myself as having an inner world, I would say I observe the world around me and let my imagination see it differently to how most people would usually see it. |
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rosered
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I love my inner world...
I've had one since i was very small, so we are talking about at least 20 yrs. It gives me a place to go to when i am stressed out and don't really want to deal with actual people. 
I think a lot more people are catching on to how great it is to step outside the real world for a while and that's why all of those 'virtual world' sites are now so popular. |
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methinks
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aspiebegood
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Well described!
Although, according to Wittgenstein, there is no such thing as an "inner world."
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AdrianB
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I dream away a lot in my inner world but I hate it actually.
I always feel like a freak then.
I'd love to be able to live without my inner world, just me and my social environment.
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sepia
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject: Re: Do you love your inner world? |
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| scrulie wrote: | I do! This is the thing I like most about being aspie. My inner world is rich and colourful and faberlous! The music I listen to, and the experiences I have, and the dreams I dream all form something inside me that I don't think NTs can ever quite experience. I love being my age (38 ) because I've got so much to remember, even though I've not been the most sociable person.
"What I've got in my head you can't buy, steal or borrow", as Bobby Gillespie sings in Higher Than The Sun, which is about drug experiences of course and I've had plenty of those, but I think the autistic mind contains a richness that others can never imagine. Do you know what I mean? How is it for you? Please share! |
the autistic mind does indeed contain a richness - my siblings and the other autists i have met have enriched my own world in a way few others can come close to. i think that it is a childlike insulation from the 'cultural norms' that lets our inner fantasy worlds blossom so.
ironic then that some NTs go on courses to learn to think how we do naturally! |
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unnamed
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| tomamil wrote: | | i, too, love my inner world. the life would be very empty without it. i would not be able to live the kind of life i do, if i didn't have the inner world so rich. it's a replacement for the real one i desire. |
I agree. It's always been my way of coping with the world around me without losing my sanity. But I've noticed that my inner dreamworld has started fading fast over the past few years. In a way that's good, because it's as a result of my real life finally getting better and less stressful since my AS diagnosis. But on the other hand, its loss makes me feel empty and kind of at loose ends. Kind of like I'm starting a new life, but unfortunately I'm also worn out and jaded from the old life! It's a very peculiar feeling, I can't even describe it well. |
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