It's apparent that Aspies generally have different degrees of ability or disability.
Some of us have severely limited functionality socially, and some don't or have learned to adapt. But of those who have limited social abilities, some have either learned to be happy without it, or have made "sour grapes" out of it, but some are hurting in some way.
So we're all different in how this touches us. I resent the same brush being used to paint each and every one of us.

Exactly.

And, to be honest, the same occurs within the autism/aspergers community to a lesser extent.

i like being unique i don't like that the public sees as all in the same light, that we are all broken and outcasted simply because we think differently.

if more people understood us more maybe other forums would accept us better but that is just a pipe dream of mine.

now im just thinking of lady gaga....kill me now

What's your secret?

Oh god Baron-Cohen. He's not a scientist, he needs to stop acting like he is.

Personally as someone that is not "AS" but "autistic disorder", I have disability. But that isn't something to scorn to look down upon. Without the disability status, I wouldn't be able to have the accommodations I need to survive and be independent. I wouldn't be protected by the ADA and the like without that DX or that disabled American status.

I just wish I had a choice about how I am unique.

NB: I wanted to delete my first reply version, but can't seem to find a way to do so. It's apparently too late if 5 minutes pass before you choose to 'edit', and there's no delete function (or I am ignorant and non observant as so often before with computing "stuff".

If I had the economical basis for taking a course and learn about computing, I would definitely do so. Not a second's hesitation!

Alas, such are also the effects of Destiny: To be hampered not only in emotional capacities, but to have the potential for intellectual achievements and have them hampered as well but by other means... Economical, Societal, i.e.!

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This is AmaDraque being in one of those moods again!...

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right on Simon - got it in one - i've never regarded my geekishness as a disability - but - on the contrary - as a talent - as a blessing - it has made me capable of seeing and doing stuff that no-one else i know can see or do - or would dare see and do - i learned early (age 16, when neurotypicals fractured my skull to let the demons out) not to let them see how different i was - i learned to allow the neurotypicals to plagiarise my work to get it adopted - as long as we don't let them see how different we are, we will eventually rule the world - that's not a wild aspiration - that's purely a fact of life - we are the product of Darwinian natural selection and will save humanity from the annihilation currently under way as a result of the social, cultural, economic, scientific, philosophical and religious changes of the 20th century in response to the totalitarianism of World War II and the possibility of the complete destruction of the human race it heralded - as long as we don't tell them what we are doing

we are detached from the usual bollocks of modern human life - we are driven from within not from without - am i making any sense - no - nothing unusual about that - but note that i'm no longer afraid to speak my mind - despite my knowing how freaky i am

and hey BardWolf, don't put yourself down - there's enough neuro-typicals out there to do that for you - enjoy having things that they don't have, can't have, not even buy with a zillion zillion pounds - pity them - they don't see with your eyes, they don't understand with your little grey cells

and as for you AmaDraque - surf the web for the following video titles - (1) Meaning: A Question and a Commitment - (2)Hero and Saint: Mapping the Cultural Genome - (3) The Heroic Age: The Greek Worldview - (4) Heroism and the Tragic View of Life - (5) Plato: Politics, Justice and Philosophy - (6) Plato's Republic: The Hero's Reward - (7) The Heroic Ideal in Late Stoicism - (8) In the Beginning: The Hebrew Worldview - (9) Father Abraham, the First Saint - (10) Saintly Types in the Hebrew Bible

these go on through (10) to (36) - i've watched them all and am doing them again - i've done (1) through (27) second time round - just taking a breather after the Holocaust as that was heavy - even for a crinkly detached aspie like me

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