Hi, I'm new to the community, a few things about myself and my purpose here:
I've been diagnosed with Asperger's. I'm high functioning but have some social issues that I'm working on which I've seen drastic improvements in. I likely also have symptoms of obsessive compulsive personality disorder.
I don't have a college degree, I currently work at home due to it being a lower stress environment (I also have ambitions in starting an online business - I've dabbled in affiliate marketing before, and ideally I'd like to be a full-time blogger or ebook author).
In the past I've had some mildly anti-social behavioral issues, such as aggression, grudges, immature sexual relations, mild drinking problems, general arrogance and egotism; I've been working to improve my character (I come from a dysfunctional family where some of these character issues are common).
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I'm a spiritualist and am interested in spirituality and philosophy moreso than materialistic science and knowledge, and believes this holds the key to life's meaning.
I believe that aspergers and autism are a a difference in degree, rather than kind. I don't believe they are fundamentally different than NTs, but rather that they exhibit extremes of certain styles of thinking.
I don't believe aspergers and autism can be "cured" per se but I believe that aspergers' aren't completely devoid of NT intuition, but rather their excessive use of "logical" styles of thinking impairs their intuition, and that the dysfunctions can somewhat be alleviated by changing their thinking patterns (such as through use of mindfulness meditation).
I also believe psychology (especially evolutionary psychology) holds many of the answers to the dysfunctions.
(As an off-the-cuff example, aspergers people are sometimes perceived as "scary" or intimidating if they work too intensely and don't talk to others; I believe this is due to the fact that our evolutionary survivalistic instinct perceives those who we don't share things in common with as potential "threats", as this would possibly have been the case in hunter-gather times; likewise the same mindset utilized for problem-solving would also be used in combat or violence, which is a more "primative" type of problem solving, so an AS person who is perceived too intensely focused on their work or problem may end up exhibiting signs of anger or aggression which could frighten others - therefore learning to be in a more relaxed, mindful state tends to make this social dysfunction take care of itself).
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
02 Oct 2016, 5:21 pm
