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fairclaire

purpledonkey wrote: »

I was curious. I got: 12

Well you can join me on savvys rubbish heap young lady. We are just too normal.......or neurotypical as savvy would put it

purpledonkey

fairclaire wrote: »

Well you can join me on savvys rubbish heap young lady. We are just too normal.......or neurotypical as savvy would put it

:rotfl: now if it were a smut test...

fairclaire

purpledonkey wrote: »

:rotfl: now if it were a smut test...

Trust you :rotfl::rotfl:

vouchercrazy

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Gosh I didn't expect everyone to 'come out' like this...:o:o

:rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry folks, if I've drawn you into something.

Nothing to be sorry about, I often lurk and read all your post and FC post, not that I am a stalker or anything but I find it interesting, as some of your and FC experiences reflect some of the things I have gone through myself, that is why I am only opening up this late at night , there is only you two and the hundreds of lurker that are around :rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

I think it comes as being a parent of a sufferer ( I hate that word by the way, because I don't believe sufferers suffer ) and having seen the process through.
Or maybe Im just a good parent who has worked hard to gain a good insight into the condition?

Im very proud that I've did that. I only ever did it so I could understand my son. The fact that I can understand others with the same condition is a very nice bonus

In our context, perhaps 'suffer' isn't correct. (But then does a blind person "suffer"? Referring back to my post.) I don't hate, or dislike, that word though. (Then again perhaps that's my 'context-blindness'.) I know there are people who dislike it being called a "disorder" but, from my POV, I revel in it being described as a disorder. Dis-ORDER!! I would not want it any other way. I like being not in order:D:D. (I don't mean disorganised, I mean not in accordance with the common (or typical, most often/vast majority) order.) There are those (maybe most people with Asperger's?) who dislike the term "autism". It's Asperger's, not autism. However, I use them as interchangeable (even though, in my Asperger way, I ought not do so - as that is inaccurate) and, as for describing myself as having "autism", or being "autistic", I like to twist the word "autism" and revel in my own twisting of it in order to apply to me in a positive way.:) "Autistic" can be used as a term of insult as well can't it? Different contexts and different uses.

I don't think I'd mind. It'd run off my back and not bother me. That said, I wouldn't encourage anyone on here to use it at me in an insulting (or failed attempt at insulting) way. (It's tone of voice too, more than anything, that doesn't come across in writing.) Not that I'd ever really know if someone was using it as an insult - having a hard time working out what people's intentions are most of the time:o:o, so likely wouldn't even know I was being insulted:o:rotfl:.

fairclaire

vouchercrazy wrote: »

Nothing to be sorry about, I often lurk and read all your post and FC post, not that I am a stalker or anything but I find it interesting, as some of your and FC experiences reflect some of the things I have gone through myself, that is why I am only opening up this late at night , there is only you two and the hundreds of lurker that are around :rotfl::rotfl:

Such a nice post. I don't reckon you are alone voucher. I think there are many, many people out there that may be affected and have never been diagnosed. Im so glad that us having a place to ' out it' helps you in some way

Savvybuyer

vouchercrazy wrote: »

Nothing to be sorry about, I often lurk and read all your post and FC post, not that I am a stalker or anything but I find it interesting, as some of your and FC experiences reflect some of the things I have gone through myself, that is why I am only opening up this late at night , there is only you two and the hundreds of lurker that are around :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So everyone will now know!
Doesn't matter! Welcome, fellow Aspie! I'm open and out on here (wayyyy too much and as part of one of my own other 'obsessive' interests:D), so really, it's not a problem. I like the idea of you being a stalker lol:eek::rotfl::rotfl:, but anyway, glad you're not, and just a little amusing for you to say that there.

:eek::eek:I'm not wanting to belittle or devalue anyone's experiences if they are being stalked by someone in RL. Serious issue, as causes distress and fear etc. But, just referring to your post and your 'way with words' there.

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

Such a nice post. I don't reckon you are alone voucher. I think there are many, many people out there that may be affected and have never been diagnosed. Im so glad that us having a place to ' out it' helps you in some way

Correct.

I think Tony Attwood - correction I know Tony Attwood wrote to the effect that there is an epidemic of people who will be diagnosed in the future.

It wasn't recognised in my day (at school in the 1980s etc). Only I recognised it - so typical of me to do that:D - very briefly (and then wrongly ruled it out back then). I think they just thought I was a shy person.

The lack of eye contact (not totally absent, but still), in association with that, ought to have suggested more. But of course no-one really knew about the condition at all back then. I've "known" for many decades, although I didn't really as I wasn't diagnosed. Only more recently did society find me out:D.

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

In our context, perhaps 'suffer' isn't correct. (But then does a blind person "suffer"? Referring back to my post.) I don't hate, or dislike, that word though. (Then again perhaps that's my 'context-blindness'.) I know there are people who dislike it being called a "disorder" but, from my POV, I revel in it being described as a disorder. Dis-ORDER!! I would not want it any other way. I like being not in order:D:D. (I don't mean disorganised, I mean not in accordance with the common (or typical, most often/vast majority) order.) There are those (maybe most people with Asperger's?) who dislike the term "autism". It's Asperger's, not autism. However, I use them as interchangeable (even though, in my Asperger way, I ought not do so - as that is inaccurate) and, as for describing myself as having "autism", or being "autistic", I like to twist the word "autism" and revel in my own twisting of it in order to apply to me in a positive way.:) "Autistic" can be used as a term of insult as well can't it? Different contexts and different uses.

I don't think I'd mind. It'd run off my back and not bother me. That said, I wouldn't encourage anyone on here to use it at me in an insulting (or failed attempt at insulting) way. (It's tone of voice too, more than anything, that doesn't come across in writing.) Not that I'd ever really know if someone was using it as an insult - having a hard time working out what people's intentions are most of the time:o:o, so likely wouldn't even know I was being insulted:o:rotfl:.

You make a lot of good points and it helps with things I am struggling with just now.

DS2 is aware that he's autistic but doesn't like to talk about it. there is embarrassment there I don't want him to embarassed. He is who he is. But he's also becoming a teenager and it pains me to see the way he tries so hard to 'fit in'. I have always embraced the fact that he is different but that's frustrating him now and he desperately doesn't want to be different

I really feel for him at the moment because he's having a hard time

dipdap

Lunchtime
My phone's not playing ball today so can't read back
Hope everyone is having a good night