AS can mean different things

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I'm upset if people are repulsed by objective portrayals of people with AS who are different from them. Maybe freak out easy, get violent in confusion, get meltdowns easily... like in that video in the Autism Politics forum.

It's perfectly ok if you explain yourself. If you say I think this and this because. That's good actually! That way everybody can understand another's point of view.

I think everybody should do it like that.

But it really upsets me if people write one judging word or one sentence and that's it. Just a judgement. No explanation.

You know. I'm not anxious. I have no social anxiety. I don't have a big narrow obsessions. I don't get all crossed when other people with AS say they have social anxiety and big special interests.

So please don't say such repulsed things. Some of us just do freak out and hit people. And havoc a classroom. And hit oursselves maybe. Say really socially inappropriate things.

That's not meaning we're 'more autistic'. Because that's really hard to measure. It just mean we have some different issues.

If you have issues and are hf but I have none of your issues and have different ones, then am I lf?

Maybe you are lf and I am hf?

Or are we both just different from each other in that aspect?

It's like this:

I'm not offended because when other aspies speak about being afraid to talk to other people, get in contact with other people.

Or when they speak about OCD.

Or when they explain that their special interests are so strong that they have no time left to do other things.

I have none of this. But when others they 'I have AS and I'm afraid to talk to people!' I accept that.

That's how AS can look like.

My own AS doesn't look like that. Not at all. I can talk to any random stranger and I can fight all OCD-thoughts. I'm not like this. I know others are though!

I easily freak out, I get violent, I get meltdowns, I do socially totally inappropriate things... I don't do this on purpose. It's how my AS looks like.

Our AS all look different.

Please remember whenever you see a person who maybe called 'hf AS' by someone too like the kids in the video and is very different from you at the same time.

Thank you for reading.

ok then.