I have autism and this fact has disturbed me greatly for some time, to the point its led me to some dark paths. I just want to know if I can actually live a normal life with it or am I doomed to be a weirdo forever?
I have autism and this fact has disturbed me greatly for some time, to the point its led me to some dark paths. I just want to know if I can actually live a normal life with it or am I doomed to be a weirdo forever?
Even “NT” people are weird. Just because you work different doesn’t make you sub-human, doesn’t mean you can’t have a “normal” life, or that you don’t deserve to be happy and to be loved and to have a fulfilling “normal” life.
Keep your chin up, and keep at it.
Thank you. But Ive been bullied throughout my life and even my father called me a freak and such, to the point I moved out the minute I became 18. So part of me wishes I was nt so I could just be accepted.
Don’t let a few really shit people make you doubt that you’re worth being here.
What actions are leading to these reactions?
Awkward, I had a lot of behavorial issues growing up that alienated me, Ive been in psych wards, stuff like that
Mind going further in describing the actual things or is that too personal?
I’d curse at people randomly, pick fights with teachers and students, run out of class, smoke pot in the school bathrooms, randomly having sex with students and a teacher once. Ive been in psych wards for suicide threats
What ties these things to autism?
I assume its why Im so messed up
I don’t think so, I think there’s lots more at play here. Hope you figure it out.
Personally, I’m not really sure if a true “neurotypical” exists. Just people with traits that don’t yet have scientific/quantitative definitions or labels for. We’re all just people and our only common trait is that we’re all different and weird.
Neurotypical just means you’re in the bulge of the bell curve of traits, so your traits are common. It doesn’t mean you’re normal, just average.
Or…. “Typical”…. 😉
exactly
(though I was trying to avoid a circular definition)