do you guys know any genuine autists IRL? not counting yourself
Do you guys know any genuine autists IRL? not counting yourself
I'm friends with one who is VERY likely in the top 1000 smartest people in the uk, realistically within the top 100. (maths prodigy)
Way too autistic to get a job or do anything independently though. I play pubg with him a lot, he's crap at shooting but has incredible positioning skills
One of the guys I work with is a 49 year old man who lives with his parents and is obsessed with Dr Who.
He's very strange and sometimes rude, like he farts openly without consideration. He's tolerable though.
I went to high school with a diagnosed asperger's autist. He always annoyed the fuck out of me due to the stupid shit he would say. We also worked at the same grocery store and I would have to overhear his irritating conversations with customers all day long.
Then later I realized we were more alike than I was comfortable with, the only major difference is that he's naturally extroverted and had gotten diagnosed early then received "treatment".
Meanwhile my mom wrote off all the weird shit I did as "quirks" and I spent my childhood copying what the other kids did in order to fit in and not seem like a freak. This led to me be naturally quiet, as I used to get into a lot of trouble with the things I'd say or repeat.
Funny how 2 autists can have such branching paths of development
Yep, there's a kid that lives near my old house, he is autistic but not the high functioning type, he was really strange, made weird movements with his hands and attempted to fuck his little brother.
It's easy to fake autism.
Got myself diagnosed with aspergers / high-functioning autism, but I have played my part for it.
myself
my entire life people have gotten more and more angry at me for being so intelligent but being unable to actually progress in life in any tangible way
My father.
It's great, isn't it?
>tfw smart enough to realize the futility of it all
Why play a game that's been rigged against you from the start?
Had an Indian (loo) friend since 6th grade. I think his autism worsened because now he is really awkward around us and if you talk to him he answers after like 10 seconds of silence. Oh and his dad is forcing him to be a muslim to boot.
My brother
I've expressed my desire to murder him more than once
A younger cousin and Im pretty sure my nephew is slightly autistic, hes a very bright kid but when he was a baby he had issues learning english, likes to stack shit or put in line, spergs out if he does something incorrectly or theres change
My sister is autistic. She's considered high-functioning but has an issue with knowing when to go to the toilet so she wears "training pants" and will get violently angry if you call it a diaper. The only foods she really likes are peanut butter and boiled hot dogs, it's all I ever see her eat and I'm surprised she's not dead. Her hobbies include sitting in her room and folding napkins/paper into various shapes. I'd like to call it origami but they never resemble any actual patterns or objects.
My dad hates her. Of course he's never said that but I can tell he wants to smother her in her sleep.
How originally old is your sister?
Me and a buddy of mine, we go out of our way to annoy the normans in our lives.
She's eight.
>maths prodigy
>smart
I don't think it's just your friend that has autism user...
Yep, knew them from middle/high school. They were real cases, but i shared a classroom with them.
Because a functioning human being is only able to see what is directly in front of them, we (the autists) have our clairvoyant view of the world around us because we were denied a fair upbringing. We were born without what we needed, and our brains unable to cope with the trauma of such a thing began seeking out answers to questions we didn't even know we were asking. When you grow up functional, your brain has no need to search outwards for answers, only to retain what you already have.
As we grow up we begin to piece together from seeing other families that we grew up in abnormal situations, but truly being able to grow out of our autism (which is entirely possible) would require us to be bestowed with what we never had in the first place; a loving supportive family to force unto us an unconditional sense of purpose; a sense that we should be necessary outside of anything we can ever do to some other people.
Oh that's not that bad. I thought you were going to say in her teens.
There's a guy who lives in my town who probably qualifies. On sunny days he rides around on a bike with some kiddie wagons tied behind, old furniture and appliances piled high. Selling that shit for scrap is probably how he survives as I don't believe he has a job or any relatives to mooch off of. He's friendly enough but tough to understand. Insane speech impediment.
I feel terrible for the more severe autists though, most of them are completely dependent on their parents, who invariably take any money they make from neetbux or working. That shit should be illegal. And then there are the autists who will eat anything and everything, and in those cases their parents often have to lock them out of the kitchen.
What's even worse is most of the low functioning inexplicably aren't depressed or suicidal, so they won't actively seek ways to eliminate themselves from society. What's gonna happen to them when their parents get too old to work/live? They'll have nowhere to go but private correctional facilities, where they'll be treated even worse.
>tfw I'm the town autist
There was this guy I was friends with during high school who was a pretty big autist. He was obsessed with things like transformers and mortal combat (mainly the character scorpion), often did impressions of fictional characters (mainly that old pedo herbet from family guy), he was even the president of our shitty little anime club.
I've known quite a few.
Im also bad at shooter games. It is like I cant move both analog sticks simoultaneously or something
back in elementary school i had an ultra autistic friend who never talked to anyone except me because i was also a lonely autistic kid who was kicked out of the group of people i followed around.
get him into lol if he has good reaction time
No,m autists repel each other like same sides of a magnet
What was his name? Also what state?
Nah he's something else if you talk to him. Not just maths he's good at, but maths is obviously the subject where geniuses stand out the most
We play on pc but yeah he's crap at aiming in those situations where both people have spotted each other and you're trying to line up a shot
He already plays it, I think he's quite good but I don't really know much about it
I spent two summers in an aspie summer camp despite not being autistic. Thanks mom you fucking cunt.
I found out recently that a guy in my class has diagnosed aspegers. He's a cool dude and if he didn't tell me i'd never figure it out. Only thing off about him is that he seems a bit anxious when talking.
I used to work with a guy I could tell had autism just by watching him talk. He was really nice but he made me insecure and hope other people don't see me like I saw him.
Even if he did somehow manage to have a gf while I don't.
No one truly knows anyone. It's all a lie, a joke we tell. We are all alone and face uncertainty, so we put on the easiest act to endure.
>What was his name?
Vincent
>State
California. Not sure why that matters.
One of my besties is an autist. He laughs maniacally at anime and always has a dazed look on his face when talking to people. he's pretty fun to watch shows with.
>not sure why that matters
use your intuition breh. u are clearly an xSxx, amirite guys xD. nah but onbiously it's cause he he knows of someone who fits that description so he was trying to find out if it was the same person
I had a kid with similar interests and mannerisms in my school (eastern NC). But he wasn't a president of any clubs.
my brother has aspergers, like a hard form
he was a history/politics/langauges prodigy , but laer in teen years licing in the same house was so hard with him.
I think I will never have kids just because I am afraid they'll be like that (fembot)
Whats he doing now?