| curl-6 said: I never knew anyone else with it growing up, but once I moved to University there were quite a few. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 19. I always had trouble reading people; I'd never know when people were angry, or sad, unless they were crying or yelling. I would annoy and piss people off but not know why. Conversation was insanely hard; I could never think of what to say, or know when it was appropriate to jump in. I had obsessive interests in things nobody else cared about; spiders, outer space, infectious diseases, giant monster movies. And I do mean obsessive. I would calculate the transmission and fatality rates of imaginary flu epidemics, just for fun. I was always smart for my age when it came to things like vocabulary, but the simplest everyday tasks, like shopping or ordering pizza, were just impossible. Over time I gradually taught myself to recognize facial expressions, and body language. It's a work in progress, but I'm learning to manage my condition. But you know what? I wouldn't change it if I could, cos it's a key part of what made me the person I am, and I'm happy with who I am. So, do we have any Aspies in the VGChartz community? And for those who do, if you could "cure" it, would you? |
Wow, this sounds like me except not as obsessive. I was HEAVILY into statisticss and still sort of am and can remember numbers like crazy. I remember constantly reorganizing my hockey/pokemon cards in different orders everyday. Could never hold a conversation until I realized that it didn't really matter. I was always really shy but always wanted to impress or try to be funny or comical which I always was as a kid. My mom put me on Ritalin from the age of 7 until I was 14, then moved to my dads and he didn't believe in pills fixing the nature of a human being.
I remember reading about aspies in the news paper and being able to relate to everything but I've never been checked out for it.
And if I did end up having it I wouldn't change a thing except being able to talk or say the things I wanted to in certain situations.
No matter what kind of mind you have its what defines you, once your put on pills or medically treated to "cure" it your no longer yourself.
