No, I'm not offended. What separate's aspergers from classic autism is that intelligence and verbal communication are not impaired. In fact its common for their intelligence to be above average. I've even met people with severe autism who could type just fine but could not talk in real life because they cannot control their motor movements well enough to get words out. Someone with aspergers probably wont be noticeable on the internet.
However from what I've been told most of real life interaction revolves around non-verbal communication such as body language, which I have a lot of trouble with.
For example someone may be angry with me and unless they tell me, I do not know, so I will keep cracking jokes at them only making them more pissed off.
I wrote this following post about last year and it gave me a bit more insight in why people may not hire me and later have fired me when they do. I can usually fake normalcy for a bit but people usually eventually discover I'm a bit off.
Also I contribute my free time constructively and am active in the community and volunteer helping others so I don't feel bad that I get a check that allows me to do what I want because I am still a productive member of society, just in a different way than most people. I'm pretty popular where I live and everyone knows me because I'm out doing something everyday instead of using my free time to get high and watch tv. I wouldn't even want to be lazy because I would get bored.
IIN that I dont have a sex life?
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No, I'm not offended. What separate's aspergers from classic autism is that intelligence and verbal communication are not impaired. In fact its common for their intelligence to be above average. I've even met people with severe autism who could type just fine but could not talk in real life because they cannot control their motor movements well enough to get words out. Someone with aspergers probably wont be noticeable on the internet.
However from what I've been told most of real life interaction revolves around non-verbal communication such as body language, which I have a lot of trouble with.
For example someone may be angry with me and unless they tell me, I do not know, so I will keep cracking jokes at them only making them more pissed off.
I wrote this following post about last year and it gave me a bit more insight in why people may not hire me and later have fired me when they do. I can usually fake normalcy for a bit but people usually eventually discover I'm a bit off.
http://isitnormal.com/poll/would-you-hire-this-person-166814/
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Also I contribute my free time constructively and am active in the community and volunteer helping others so I don't feel bad that I get a check that allows me to do what I want because I am still a productive member of society, just in a different way than most people. I'm pretty popular where I live and everyone knows me because I'm out doing something everyday instead of using my free time to get high and watch tv. I wouldn't even want to be lazy because I would get bored.