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Does anyone think their Asperger's makes them more accepting?

Christian T

Christian T

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I think I have what I like to refer to as a "high weirdness threshold", where, because I've been forced to try to understand neurotypicals, understanding other different perspectives is easier. It takes a lot to make me call something weird, and anyway, I've always had something against that term. I've always thought it describes what something isn't, instead of what it is. People use it to describe something as unfamiliar to them, but nothing else. It's a little like an astronomer giving a report on a different planet that simply says "it's not like Earth".

So, do any aspies here have a "high weirdness threshold"? Am I the only one who personally finds nothing "weird" about Tim Burton's films?

Thanks for reading.
 
High weirdness threshold? Definitely. That is pretty much a defining characteristic from what I can tell. I get along better with weird people, there is a kind of mutual acceptance going on.

Tim Burton's films? I haven't watched many. But yeah, I don't find them less weird than a romcom.
 
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High weirdness threshold? Definitely. That is pretty much a defining characteristic from what I can tell. I get along better with weird people, there is a kind of mutual acceptance going on.

Tim Burton's films? I haven't watched many. But yeah, I don't find them less weird than a romcom.
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Good to hear I was right in thinking this.

About the Tim Burton films, do you mean you find them more than or just as weird as a rom-com (≥ in one character, mathematics can be so succinct, can't it) or is this a classic linguistic blunder of mine?
 
I do not have Asperger's, myself. However, I think that I am pretty accepting of all people. I have no issues with people that may be a little on the "weird" side. We all are a little "weird" in our own way, and "weird" is a relative term. Also, over the years I have come across some very close-minded people, and it has really opened my eyes to how cruel some people really can be.
 
Yes I believe that I am more accepting because i need to be accepted and that is hard for people to do because of my "weird" things I do. So it all goes on the "treat people how you want to be treated" saying. Also because of my "weird" behaviors I find other peoples' "weird" behavior less "weird".
 
I always hated the way others would laugh at someones walk, or the way they dressed or talked, probably because I've spent my life trying to imitate the 'norm' in an effort to fit in.. so yep, high up there on the Wierdness Factor :)
 
I have always been seen as rather strange. My husband as often called me weird and some call me "different"

Yes, it is just about the pits to be around most NT's, because their way of thinking just hits me badly can't deal with their seeming unconcerned behaviour.
 
Tim Burton didn't seem weird to me, however a bit bloody and/or death-obsessed. But man, did Sweeney Todd have some good music.

I do prefer "weird" people on average. The ones I call "weird" I should instead call creepy, annoying, or some other adjective since that's what I really mean.
 
Yes i believe that being an aspie (even not knowing it for most of my life) has made me more understanding and accepting. I know what its like to feel abnormal or outcasted so i'm more open to other people different from me. Being raised in an extremely conservative christian baptist family, i was raised to hate gay people simply for being gay yet as i got into middle and highschool and realized just how different i was and just how much i was an outcast for it...i realized their reasoning behind hating gays was wrong too. Because nobody would bring that sort of hatred on themselves just for attention, just because they've been badly influenced, just because they don't have god, or whatever reason. I've heard it all, living in the south. I'm the same with religion as well as lifestyle; live however the **** you want, i won't judge you for it. I'll judge you for not knowing how to use your debit card to pay for your groceries when its obviously not a new card you're paying with and we haven't had a machine or software update recently...but not for religion and lifestyle choices.
 
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