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I read so many posts that suggest being on the Spectrum is somewhat abnormal.
Honestly, what is 'Normal?' There is no 'normal' all there is, is individuality. NT people experience much the same issues in their life as we do in our lives.
I am Aspie and I have an issue with communication, but that does not bother me one little bit because I do not look at what I don't have, but rather what I do have.
Come on guys, why on Earth would you have a desire to be different than you are?
Lets pick just one Aspie out as to make my point.
Mr. Bill Gates. Yes Bill Gates.
Imagine if Bill, in his younger years thought; 'OMG I wish I was not an Aspie.'
Bill did not take that view and he ran with his strengths and as a result a very large number of people use his product; Microsoft Windows.

I'm more partial to Steve Jobs, who was also Aspie.

Is it because of me? I posted, "Weird is normal, normal is weird.".

Well, not all of us have the intellectual abilities like Bill Gates. I don't feel superior or a genius. I just feel like average with average/below IQ, and I don't have a special interest to focus on for hours. I seem to have the "negative Asperger's", which means Asperger's is more of a disability to you than some genius tendencies. I do hate being compared to successful people on the spectrum. "Oh XYZ had Asperger's and look what he accomplished". What does that supposed to mean to me?

There is no proof Bill Gates or Steve Jobs are aspies just rampant speculation.

I do not know if they are or they are not but I do know Bill Gates in his younger years did not think anything like I am an aspie I am going to run with it because the word Aspie did not exist nor did the Asperger diagnosis exist in his younger years.

I am for the general idea of what you are trying to do but I object to how you are doing it. To say people with autistic traits, or people that are weird or different can have great success is necessary, but unless the person has said they are on the spectrum that is as far as it should go.

Guys .... Guys ... Guys.
OK I may have made it complicated in my first post - Lets Turn It All Around.
The bottom line I was getting at is.
Why would you want to be different than you already are?
Forget that I placed Bill Gates in my post. OMG! Really I am so short of his understanding of computer coding. Does that bother me? No of course it does not, because I know that I have skills that Bill Gates does not.

As far as I'm concerned, normal is a setting on a washing machine and only that. I don't want to be a setting on a washing machine.

There IS no 'normal'. Not in terms of human behavior, preferences, or aptitude and abilities.

There's only 'common', the 'usual', or what relative concept of 'compliance' of what 'appropriate' is according to what 'morals' and 'cultural norms' are.


That's what others think what 'normal' is, as opposed to, say, 'natural' and it's outcome. Or heck, 'logical'.
Yes, 'normal' is supposedly mean with lines of 'logical'. Not the so-called assumption of what is 'proper'.

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