Name: Anonymous 2011-04-20 17:57
Asperger's Syndrome - let me give you a run-down on what it's like.
Imagine you're a regular, normal human being. You have your wants, you have your needs, you have your hopes and dreams. But, everyone else around you are dogs. They wag their tails when they are happy, growl when they are angry, and sniff each other's crap and bark about it to communicate with each other. You, however, do not do these things: you smile, you talk, you laugh, you cry. You have a lot of trouble trying to communicate with dogs the same way dogs do instinctively.
Your mind is completely alien to all the dogs around you. You think in concepts that they cannot fathom, and you find their mentality even more incomprehensible. You alone see the many problems dogs have with each other and the world around them. Not only do they seem incapable of figuring out what seems glaringly obvious to you, though, dogs merrily go about their way as if they have no idea they have problems in the first place! If only you could communicate these ideas outside of your head in a way dogs, or you, could understand.
However, even if you could, they will not hear you. Not only can't dogs understand, in fact, they won't. They are inexplicably hostile to the very idea of understanding you. All they know is you are different, and that makes you easy prey. Because of this, you have become a pariah, an inferior, an omega. They fear, hate, and attack you and your differences, and your only defense is shouting "WHY!?".
Despite the fact that you merely imagine in methods that they do not, have other amusements and stimulations as they, possess wants and needs counter to most of them, and can think circles around any of them, the dogs that run the world have thoughtlessly concluded that there's something wrong with *YOU*, all because you don't cheerfully sniff excrement like everybody else.
THAT'S an Aspie's world.
Imagine you're a regular, normal human being. You have your wants, you have your needs, you have your hopes and dreams. But, everyone else around you are dogs. They wag their tails when they are happy, growl when they are angry, and sniff each other's crap and bark about it to communicate with each other. You, however, do not do these things: you smile, you talk, you laugh, you cry. You have a lot of trouble trying to communicate with dogs the same way dogs do instinctively.
Your mind is completely alien to all the dogs around you. You think in concepts that they cannot fathom, and you find their mentality even more incomprehensible. You alone see the many problems dogs have with each other and the world around them. Not only do they seem incapable of figuring out what seems glaringly obvious to you, though, dogs merrily go about their way as if they have no idea they have problems in the first place! If only you could communicate these ideas outside of your head in a way dogs, or you, could understand.
However, even if you could, they will not hear you. Not only can't dogs understand, in fact, they won't. They are inexplicably hostile to the very idea of understanding you. All they know is you are different, and that makes you easy prey. Because of this, you have become a pariah, an inferior, an omega. They fear, hate, and attack you and your differences, and your only defense is shouting "WHY!?".
Despite the fact that you merely imagine in methods that they do not, have other amusements and stimulations as they, possess wants and needs counter to most of them, and can think circles around any of them, the dogs that run the world have thoughtlessly concluded that there's something wrong with *YOU*, all because you don't cheerfully sniff excrement like everybody else.
THAT'S an Aspie's world.