Hadarian
Well-Known Member
I know that people have said that each person with high-functioning autism is unique and different and that there is not supposed to be any one "symptom" or characteristic which we all have, but I have actually found one potential "symptom" that we all seem to have. Let's say that so far, I haven't seen one of us that is lacking it:
We all seem to be light years ahead of "normal people" in our level of self-awareness and in the skill of articulating and expressing to others our behavior. I have never in my entire life seen such a large collection of people in one place who are so impressively self-aware and articulate, skilled in analysis of self and behavior as I have seen on this website. It really impressed me when I first came here and to me this is one trait that all Aspies seem to share. We are hell-bent on analyzing ourselves and are good at it. We are skilled at stepping outside of ourselves and breaking down our thought processes and our feeling experiences and analyzing their causes and the ways in which people interact with us and we interact with them and we are driven to explain to ourselves and anyone who will listen, precisely why people are judging us badly and wrongly and why we cannot function well in this system that they have set up.
Is this not a characteristic that can be attributed to all Aspies? I think it may be. And I think it is awesome and, for me, very heartening to find so many people who are as driven towards self-awareness and skilled in articulating their "findings" as I am.
We all seem to be light years ahead of "normal people" in our level of self-awareness and in the skill of articulating and expressing to others our behavior. I have never in my entire life seen such a large collection of people in one place who are so impressively self-aware and articulate, skilled in analysis of self and behavior as I have seen on this website. It really impressed me when I first came here and to me this is one trait that all Aspies seem to share. We are hell-bent on analyzing ourselves and are good at it. We are skilled at stepping outside of ourselves and breaking down our thought processes and our feeling experiences and analyzing their causes and the ways in which people interact with us and we interact with them and we are driven to explain to ourselves and anyone who will listen, precisely why people are judging us badly and wrongly and why we cannot function well in this system that they have set up.
Is this not a characteristic that can be attributed to all Aspies? I think it may be. And I think it is awesome and, for me, very heartening to find so many people who are as driven towards self-awareness and skilled in articulating their "findings" as I am.