MarieElana wrote:
Quote:
I'm reaching out here, I'm trying to tell you that you are more than a label, more than a disability, more than an illness or a cancer. You are a human being, and furthermore, you are Aspergian. Be proud, for it is people like us who make history, event, write, create, by challenging the norms. Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, they were Aspergian. They were OUR people. So were Emily Dickinson, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, Openheimer, Nietzche, most likely Aspergian.
Anyone can make history; it's not exclusive to a mental state. Unlike this forum, excellence doesn't discriminate.
What you fail to realise is that society discriminates against us, this is where any possible resentment to NTs would come from. We truely have no voice. Now I'm not saying that it justifies being biggoted towards all NTs, because it doesn't. But, right now most of NT society is either consciously or sub-consciously racist against Aspergians. \
I do not call it a "syndrome" because "syndrome" implies that we're a cancer, or a disease, or a burden, which we're not. Hell at one time people treated gays and bi's this way, as a "disfunction".....
Many aspies are raised in a NT world, brow beaten into submission and low self confidence. We are educated through NT methods and taught NT theories of mind, which cancel out the Aspergian in Aspergians more often then not. Because we are raised in this world and much of it boils down to environmental psychology.
Aspies aren't without faults ourselves though, we're not perfect beings either. Far from it, as a matter of fact. Many of us become too entrapped in our views and become over-emotional, however, many of those who do so are bred into NT-world biases. I think this is evolution in progress, but who'se to say how aspies would thrive without being molded by the NT machine to try and emulate NT behavior?
13 Apr 2007, 1:35 pm
