About a year ago, I started coming out as having Asperger’s.
It has been an enormous relief to own it instead of faking neurotypical.
I felt a dose of Aspie pride seeing Elon hosting SNL and thought I should write about how to better understand the Aspie in your life: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
It has been an enormous relief to own it instead of faking neurotypical.
I felt a dose of Aspie pride seeing Elon hosting SNL and thought I should write about how to better understand the Aspie in your life: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Our superpower is that we don’t care what other people think about us.
We don’t choose to disregard what people think. We don’t care because we don’t spend any time even thinking about what they think.
This can make us weird, awkward, frustrating, etc.
We don’t choose to disregard what people think. We don’t care because we don’t spend any time even thinking about what they think.
This can make us weird, awkward, frustrating, etc.
We are weird.
It isn’t always because we want to be weird.
That thing that makes most people acutely aware of others and how they are thinking/feeling - we don’t have that.
We don’t spend all that time that most people do trying to fit in.
It isn’t always because we want to be weird.
That thing that makes most people acutely aware of others and how they are thinking/feeling - we don’t have that.
We don’t spend all that time that most people do trying to fit in.
We are sensitive.
We don’t appear to be, but we can actually get stung really deeply and sometimes by really random stuff. We often won’t say anything about it, but it will eat away at us.
We don’t appear to be, but we can actually get stung really deeply and sometimes by really random stuff. We often won’t say anything about it, but it will eat away at us.
We are obsessive.
If we are working on something (could be baking bread, could be designing a rocket ship), we are capable of singularly focusing on that thing.
We may forget to bathe, do our laundry, eat or open the mail.
If we are working on something (could be baking bread, could be designing a rocket ship), we are capable of singularly focusing on that thing.
We may forget to bathe, do our laundry, eat or open the mail.
We are single threaded.
This might be a male Aspie thing, but I find it impossible to multi-task.
If I am not thinking about you, it isn’t that I don’t care. I literally can’t think about two things at once.
Being interrupted is a mild form of torture for me.
This might be a male Aspie thing, but I find it impossible to multi-task.
If I am not thinking about you, it isn’t that I don’t care. I literally can’t think about two things at once.
Being interrupted is a mild form of torture for me.
We need love.
We often act like we are indifferent to the world around us, but we really crave being accepted as we are (weirdness/faults and all).
We have trouble asking for what we want or putting words to our emotions, but it can usually be pried out of us.
We often act like we are indifferent to the world around us, but we really crave being accepted as we are (weirdness/faults and all).
We have trouble asking for what we want or putting words to our emotions, but it can usually be pried out of us.
We are remarkable and dysfunctional at once.
We can do amazing things through extended and obsessive focus.
And we can be frustrating partners in work and love.
The key if you have an Aspie in your life is really just to understand that and assume they are doing their best.
We can do amazing things through extended and obsessive focus.
And we can be frustrating partners in work and love.
The key if you have an Aspie in your life is really just to understand that and assume they are doing their best.
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