Aspies For Freedom

1. Autistic People Rarely Lie

Auggh... well, I didn't lie, but my dad always yelled at me for not lying about my opinions, so now I do lie. ^___^

2. People on the Autism Spectrum Live in the Moment

Not quite sure about this one...

3. People with Autism Rarely Judge Others

I guess I don't judge others much compared to NT's...

4. Autistic People are Passionate

I guess I do... not usually about people though.

5. People with Autism Are Not Tied to Social Expectations

No, I'm not...

6. People with Autism Have Terrific Memories

Hmmm... I don't think I have a particularly great memory, but... I HAVE kind of memorized the geography of the Pokemon world.

7. Autistic People Are Less Materialistic

I don't care much about clothes and appearance, but I wouldn't say I'm not materialistic.
8. Autistic People Play Fewer Head Games

HEAD GAMES!! I fricken' hate head games. -____-

9. Autistic People Have Fewer Hidden Agendas

Kinda...

10. People with Autism Open New Doors for Neurotypicals

I have never asked my friends if I have opened new doors for them. I think if I did, they wouldn't answer honestly, anyway.

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So how does it fit all you guys?

But seriously, I'm so glad someone wrote this. Especially an NT, so the NT's could trust her.

Personally, I would suggest

11.  Possibility of financial accountability
12.  Academic interest (and ability)
13.  Non-violence (at least in my home growing up, violence was practically unheard of).  

Anecdotal story.  I dumped my second gf after she threw a Sprite at me in a cinema.  I prefer Diet Coke.  I tried to explain to my Christian sister (the same one that I was really upset at before becoming Christian) that I understood anger management issues and had at least some sympathy for her.

But my sister replied, I was never physically violent.

The worst period in my life and I couldn't hit anyone?

Wal Mart is cool.  You can get some bargains on the way back from a WV visit to friends.  Digital camera $88.  DVD recorder $150.  The WV sub-economy pays most people $6 to $8 an hour whereas down here they can get $10 to $20 an hour and up.  So the economic gravity is 50% or 33% of usual.  Like the Battlestar Galactica kids, "you can jump higher and run faster than the Earth children".

If you're doing $20 an hour and up in WV, you're either a doctor, lawyer, or other hot shot every place needs to have, or it's probably just an acid trip.

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A brief rant.

All these wonderful things and the NTs (in general, with some exceptions) still prefer the company of their own to ours?

I love two public service announcements from the 1980s because they show how life doesn't work for us Aspies.

Michael J. Fox, don't do cocaine: "If you make the right choice, there's nothing you can't accomplish!"
Unless you have Asperger and studied the wrong subject in college so the interviewer and recruiter have the chance to dismiss you because they (10 to 1) prefer the company of their own.

And what's her name on NBC, The More You Know..... "[if you don't drive drunk] you can take me home anytime."
GIVE ME A BREAK <BR>!

She actually meant, if you don't drive drunk AND you have the nonverbal skills to provoke an emotional reaction in her because she has turned off her conscious mind and is relying on feelings.

I received an unsolicited email from a Kimberly in Ontario seeking decent guys who treat women and their kids decently but went on to describe appearance and romantic attributes including "coat and tie" guy.  I do that to get a salary and benefits five days a week and I would do it to attract a lady stranger's attention.  But exactly how much of this can Kimberly accept as her own fault?

What a guy says and what a guy does are two different things.  Paraphrase from Mammy in Gone With the Wind.
versus
What a guy says might be what he does and you hope he will because he is pushing all your right buttons?

Hey, we know that there are wolves in sheeps' clothing that can push the right buttons!  Ted Bundy's victims often went willingly because they thought he was a completely different sort of lady killer.

So, ladies
1.  turn on your brain
2. listen to what he says but
3. compare it to what he does
4. and maybe after a year or two if he proves himself (and still pushes all the right buttons), go for it.

The perseverance value of Asperger is frequently life-saving.  But for the perseverance I might have died by the age of 20.

Or maybe with what we live through, the survivors have to have perseverance.

One conundrum.  
The Asperger tolerance is strong.  At around age 20 it hit me working at my telemarketing job one weekend, summer 1990, bam, you know, it would be a good idea to have gay marriage and other rights.  Age 8, CBS In The News on Saturday morning, discussed the KKK, I was won over to African American rights straight away.   I said it before: I think the gays and the Aspergians have much in common and could be natural allies.

However, there is no way I can read the Holy Scriptures and miss the condemnation of respective behaviors.  The Bible might as well as been written by a judge or a lawyer.  I noticed the five books of Moses and legalism straight away when I started reading the Bible at age 12.

Sending the admins a message?

My apology for having caused needless outrage.
We do have a problem with instructions taken literally do we not?

To reiterate, a vast majority of Aspergians would take their religions literally.  I think I am correct there.

I am not damning anyone to hell, if I could damn anyone to hell, I'd have done it already.  I have less patience than the Christian God.

I would be quite the micromanaging type of God if I could be.  I mean, a world in where there is no need for police or armies.  

A lot of so-called hypocrite Christians think they are Gods.  The rest of us know the difference and back down.

All I want is to be recognized, minus the God I was attracted to November 1992 to July 1993, is that I do not hate anyone in my own self, nor will I, and nor does God say to.

Hello?

Bad enough the ladies misunderstand me, so please understand that my motives are benevolent.  I am certain you have a problem with the Christian God but your issue with me is without merit, as I do not have malice myself, and the Christian faith was scripted by God not me.

Sorry, pikajedi4, I think I need my name cleared.  Simply because I report a faith accurately (and I can stop now because I think everyone understands) does not make me hate anyone.  I did not mean any malice and I don't want to so let me hold my peace.

In fact, I respect Max and I will even say I wish I knew him before I converted.  I did not have any male gay friends but I was close to a woman who I later learned is bisexual.  We had one guy in a psych class write a report on Should Homosexuality Be Considered A (something along the lines of mental illness), his thesis is NO, and I requested a photocopy.  I first learned of the Gay Book of Lists from the report, and I was aghast to learn that a killer of a gay person was acquitted after a prayer meeting?

And, I've said it before, I hated Christians until approximately Nov 1992 or graduation plus six months.

Your ideas, Max, mean a great deal to me.  As for your orientation I don't personally care.
I'm focused on my orientation and a dream of finding a lady mate.

How many things have you written about have I applauded, the first thing being what teenage girls think of boy teenage geeks?  I was reading National Geographic today and it had a car insurance ad of how teenagers drive without one fully developed part of their brain, the part that controls impulses, lets them see the consequences of actions..... does not really fully develop until their twenties.  The Shepherd University Christian sister crowd of 1992 to 1995, ladies, married by 25, my best friend's wife, a record low 23 and 3 weeks.  Mrs. Meads, 24.

Grrrrrr.  My friends got married too young, too damned normal, too damned Disney.

Certainly a certain friend married at 24 (estimate because I don't know her birthday or precise wedding date) felt the least bit threatened by your thesis, and told me so,

but your thesis is possible, with neurology on your side.  Bravo!

We are neither on the same world view nor on the same orientation, but we are on the same side where it counts on this blog, the Aspies, including your partner and including me.

If you find fault with anything I do, mention it, go ahead, in the clear if you like or PM.

I hasten to remind you by holding on to hurt feelings or the appearance of hostility, you are breaking a humanist convention Mrs. Meads taught me.   She did not teach me to hate the Christians on campus either in 1990, 1991 or 1992 and that seems to me very similar to what you are doing now.  I got over it at age 22.  

Can you appreciate that I enjoy your wisdom and I do not wish to threaten your emotional well being?

I was interested in this toppic and got towards the end and was slightly disappointed that there theme of the 'Top 10 terrific traits of autistic people' had stopped, can we get back on toppic please.

Sorry to be a pest.

I think that you have a wonderful son who has every chance of being the first AS in space.
I also think that you are great parents, I liked the vision of you all on the sofa taking off., it was also very clever of you to do it, I assume that you didn't know about the AS at that point so you were instinctively doing all of the right things for your son.

I never intended to hurt peoples' feelings.  In fact, considering the whole of Christian teaching helps gay people because then they can answer the hypocrites back.  Some Christians in World War II helped Jews escape or hid them (the Righteous from among the nations....)

So may I be welcomed in peace for our common cause?

And thanks again Max, for all the posts you have written that help me and others put things in perspective better.

Hmm, I am actually the complete opposite of all the things you have written here (except I can be known to be compulsively honest), I wonder if that is due to my severe case of ADD.  I am in fact one of the least punctual folks I've ever known, I'll be late to appointments even if I'm not busy with anything on the given day.