Maybe you need to hang out with other Aspies, and teach neurotypical people to communicate with you in a way you are more confortable.

I know I don’t want to give up my Aspie-ness. I just wish I could blend in the Neurotypical world better.

I mentor so many young Aspies who want to be just like their NT classmates. Those same classmates are reading Harry Potter books, and wishing that they were different from most people. We are a neat bunch of people. We are the stop-and-smell-the-flowers people, the hey-the-emperor-has-no-clothes people, the what-if-we-did-it-this-way people. I give a talk on behalf of our people to NT audiences, in order to teach them how to speak our language. My first book, Larger Than Life: the Struggle to be Ten Feet Tall, which is coming out later this year, addresses Aspieness in Chapters 3 & 4. Associates of mine will be creating an Aspie community in the Pacific Northwest as a haven & getaway for our people. We are doing our own advocacy, on behalf of our people (see grasp.org), and changing the way the world sees us, treats us, and speaks about us. I am an Aspie, and I am proud to be an Aspie.

Well said MadamAmbassador, I can’t wait to read your book! :)

There are many positive parts of Aspergers and parts that you may want improve but it’s impostant to realize asperger’s is only a very small part of who you are and there are so many more aspects of yourself!

~Jen

I recall my parents sent me to some shitty camp. I recall that I did not fit in very well at all. Of course the camp in question required me to make friends with people who supposedly have the same, or similar, disease/disability/fuck-up/whatever-you-call-it that I have.

All my friends that I’ve ever made and mildly enjoyed hanging out with have been NT’s (at least to my knowledge).

So really, it all depends. Even if you do supposedly have this debilitation, it mostly depends on what you’ve adapted to and how you’ve been raised unless your severely autistic enough to repel all forms of outside contact, period (in which case, you’re better off living in a pit; these kinds of people make very little headway unfortunately, and nature proves it :().