05-22-2007, 08:51 PM
05-23-2007, 12:07 PM
Sometimes I feel like a child trapped in an adult's body, but that is still feeling human.
05-23-2007, 08:12 PM
Sometimes I feel more complete than others because I know exactly who I am, always. I don't need to define myself by my relationships or my job/school or where I live or anything except what goes on in my head. I don't think many NTs could say that of themselves; if they ever do get to that point of self-knowledge and not giving a *** what other people think...ness..., it takes them many, many years.
Sometimes I feel less complete than others because I know that there are dimensions and subtlties to their conversations, their relationships, that I'll never be able to percieve or understand. I wonder if I'm more like a wild animal (albeit an intelligent, aware one) than a normal human being. But I can usually accept this. I know I have sensory experiences that most people don't have and don't understand, and I don't look down on them for that. It's just different.
Sometimes I feel less complete than others because I know that there are dimensions and subtlties to their conversations, their relationships, that I'll never be able to percieve or understand. I wonder if I'm more like a wild animal (albeit an intelligent, aware one) than a normal human being. But I can usually accept this. I know I have sensory experiences that most people don't have and don't understand, and I don't look down on them for that. It's just different.
05-24-2007, 04:58 AM
Athlynne Wrote:
Maybe that's part of it - usually when I feel something powerful or overwhelming, I'm feeling it alone. I don't seek out others to share it with.
You know, sometimes I wonder whether NTs "sharing" these emotions isn't a way to subconsciously try and "pass on the burden", or lessen the impact for the individual. Perhaps we are just more sensitive to the loss of experience/emotion when having to share these things?
05-24-2007, 04:39 PM
I am not human, I am better!
MvuhaHaHahahAHAHahahAHAAHAHA!
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I remember when I was younger I always wanted to do things in another way than others did, I probably still do, as it avoids competition and comparing yourself to others.
MvuhaHaHahahAHAHahahAHAAHAHA!
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I remember when I was younger I always wanted to do things in another way than others did, I probably still do, as it avoids competition and comparing yourself to others.
05-27-2007, 04:04 PM
Batman55 Wrote:
GuessWho Wrote:
But, in summary. We are a slightly different kind of Cro Magnon, one with distinct abilities in math, science, engineering, and/or computers. Maybe even foreign language too, I was, I had six courses in Spanish and Latin in high school and straight As in the Latin.
You certainly speak well for everyone, thank you.
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I've got to be honest. This is the kind of thing that makes me think I don't even belong to Aspergia.
I don't understand - first you say the poster spoke well for everyone and then you turn around and use the very same quote to complain about how it doesn't apply to you?!
05-28-2007, 02:11 PM
Natalie Wrote:
Sarcasm + AS often doesn't combine well, especially when magnified to the power of internets.
That quote is signature-worthy! 
05-29-2007, 11:53 AM
I got what Batman55 meant - not all Aspies are good at maths/languages and so on.
06-04-2007, 09:58 AM
Saint Wrote:
This pretty much sums it up. Too much sensory overload at times, blank aloofness at others.
I really like that wording, "Blank aloofness". Although I think the overload is often responsible for this in the first place...
06-10-2007, 04:10 AM
I tried to be a cat, and I tried to be an elf, but I knew all along I was really human. But the definitions of humanity were so often too narrow to encompass me. I now see that as a flaw in the definitions.
wilky
09-06-2007, 01:46 PM
Noetic Wrote:
I wouldn't know what it's like to feel like anything or anyone other than myself. What a strange question, how is one meant to answer this?
Thankyou for pointing this out.
To know whether you feel "as human as an NT", or "feel any different," surely you have to experience being NT before you can draw any comparisons and conclusions?
If you are either NT or AS, how can an aspie or someone neurotypical say they feel different from something they have never experienced?
There is no logic to this.
wilky
09-06-2007, 10:17 PM
Mjølner Wrote:
wilky Wrote:
Noetic Wrote:
I wouldn't know what it's like to feel like anything or anyone other than myself. What a strange question, how is one meant to answer this?
Thankyou for pointing this out.
To know whether you feel "as human as an NT", or "feel any different," surely you have to experience being NT before you can draw any comparisons and conclusions?
If you are either NT or AS, how can an aspie or someone neurotypical say they feel different from something they have never experienced?
There is no logic to this.
Do you like the usual and common things that most people do? ...if not, It could be a noticeable difference.
You don't have to be a Horse to know that you feel different from a Horse? ..am i wrong?
I feel very different from very social people. I don't understand their urge to be with other people as much as possible. Do I have to be hyperscosial first to be able to feel different?
No I don't like the usual common things that most people do. Nor am I "hypersocial". I am quite the opposite, and I am NT. What does this say about me? It doesn't give me any ability to make a judgement as to whether I feel any 'more human' than someone I have no experience of being.
Concerning the question, "Do you feel as human as an NT". We are talking about comparing human to human. As Noetic said, "I wouldn't know what it's like to feel like anything or anyone other than myself". To state: "You don't have to be a Horse to know that you feel different from a Horse?" maybe true, but is an irrevelant analogy.
Neigh, I think you are wrong.
10-03-2007, 05:37 AM
When I was a teenager I read a lot of science fiction. I really felt like I was an alien and that one day a space-ship would arrive and I would meet all the other people who were just like me.
Well, the ship arrived last year.
It isn't a space-ship but a cyber-ship.
Thank you to YOU, the crew of the
Well, the ship arrived last year.
It isn't a space-ship but a cyber-ship.
Thank you to YOU, the crew of the
AFF Neurodiversity!
10-19-2007, 03:01 AM
GuessWho Wrote:
I became a Christian because the Holy Spirit could make Christians genuinely love me as a person made in the image of God despite six months of pre-Christian religious hostility.
The truth is GuessWho I had the same Naive notions that christians were "better people" then the masses, but the case is... they only act like it superficially, most of them are only in it for the reward of eternal life, not because they genuinely love god or jesus, or any such garbage. If it wasn't for the teaching of forgiveness, most people would never become christian.... I can only imagine how long christianity would have lasted if you had to be totally pure and make few or no mistakes.
Being able to make mistakes lets people excuse themselves and gives people an out to be irresponsible (cheat on their spouse, divorce, whatever you want).
Most Christians today are far and away not very Christian at all, and you should know that better then anyone.
10-20-2007, 11:31 AM
SoulSick Wrote:
GuessWho Wrote:
I became a Christian because the Holy Spirit could make Christians genuinely love me as a person made in the image of God despite six months of pre-Christian religious hostility.
The truth is GuessWho I had the same Naive notions that christians were "better people" then the masses, but the case is... they only act like it superficially, most of them are only in it for the reward of eternal life, not because they genuinely love god or jesus, or any such garbage.
If it wasn't for the teaching of forgiveness, most people would never become christian.... I can only imagine how long christianity would have lasted if you had to be totally pure and make few or no mistakes.
Being able to make mistakes lets people excuse themselves and gives people an out to be irresponsible (cheat on their spouse, divorce, whatever you want).
Most Christians today are far and away not very Christian at all, and you should know that better then anyone.
Unfortunately, I think this is all true. Mind you, in Jesus' time, there were similar people - the Pharisees, so religious hypocrisy has been around for a long time.