Posted by ghost on June 17, 2004, at 14:53:04
In reply to Re: why people ignore me, posted by AuntieMel on June 17, 2004, at 12:57:50
> I thought Aspergerish was a vegetable, harvested in spears.
okay that was funny. thanks. :)
for some reason, i've found that i love people was asperger's. i love they way they think. i love the way they look at the world.
i don't have many friends. dare i say i don't have any? i have acquaintences. lots of them. lots of people i recoginize on the street, acknowledge, and keep on walking by. lots of people i might see at a party or other social situation, listen to them talk about themselves, and never be able to open up in return (even IF the bothered to ask about how i was doing).
i've never been particularly attractive, and always been shy and introverted. i don't know what it's like to have had people fawning over me for being attractive, and i've never had anyone fawn over me for being smart. it seems that most people associate ugly with stupid, too.
i've made the best friends over the internet, where you don't have that physical aspect looming over the situation. there's also a backspace key, and a "quit" command. i know it's often not a substitute for real life, but maybe for now you can meet people online, even local people (just be careful!) and eventually move that towards real life. my closest friend i have now is one i met by talking to online in college (we chatted via the school network, we're big geeks) until one day i finally got up the guts in the cafeteria to say "are you andrew?" and he said "hi <ghost>."
what we need is the ability to teleport ourselves and have a big babble party. :)
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