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And I call it living in a bubble looking out.Though quite often if there's ever a metaphor to describe it all, I call it "living on the outside of a bottle always looking in".
Never really feeling like I'm a part of things, though you just learn to deal with it.
NTs have to be trained too. Til 25 i didn't have a sense of self or others. Id try to be the way i figured to be best. I thought all people have honest good intentions. Part of it was religion and part education, but now I have a path that I make for myself adding in what I want, psychology and not being slave to emotion. An aspie taught me most of it, or rather encouraged me to find answers. I couldn't understand what she was explaining so I started googling scientific answers to all my questions for years now. I feel so much more confident in how I relate to the worldYou could just as easily ask how can people who are NOT on the spectrum stand to have such a limited view of the world? How do they cope with all these assumptions they make without thinking things through? Isn't it limiting having such dulled senses? Doesn't it get boring following the crowd and being easily influenced all the time?
There are stereotypes for everything. Being NT and being ASD are two different sides of the same coin. We are different but equal, not inferior or diseased any more than we should regard being NT as a disability compared to us.
Not everyone treats autism as an affliction. To many it's a mixed blessing. We'd like to eliminate some of the bad, but we know we'd lose some of the good in the process.
You also get extremes.
I mean look at the extremes on this forum. We get two different autistic members, who make their introductory posts at the exact same minute of the same day, one full of optimism who says their autism is a blessing and not to regard it as a disability, and then another introducing themselves as someone who thinks their autism is a disease and asks people how they can stand to live with it.
Polar opposite ends of "the spectrum".
The asperger's. Doesn't it feel like every waking moment you are in detention?