More about Asperger's and looking normal

This is about:
1. The benefits and drawbacks of using a Manic Pixie Dream Girl persona to cover Asperger's or justify ASD behaviors and limitations.
2. The effect, on a person who constantly freaked out about Being Normal, of meeting those bogeymen--people for whom Being Normal, or even faking it briefly, was out of the question. The people I was scared of resembling.

sorry if this was jumpy as hell

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• asperger's
• women
• autism
• mental
• retardation
• disability
• ableism
• asds
• manic
• pixie
• dream
• girl

[Hopihe37]

This was SUPPOSED to be a compliment. I didn't say you looked retarded, I said you DIDN'T. Read more carefully! I asked why on earth you feel like you look retarded? You don't. So fuck you to and go back to your fantasy, because you are right. Outside of this pixie cutsie act you are a witch to tell me to get fucked. I suffer with ugliness of the face you don't and you say fuck me in the face??? FRY IN HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gorramdoll]

@Hopihe37 Let me explain. When you compliment someone and in the same breath insult a group of people they care about and consider friends/fellowtravelers, they're not going to take it as a compliment. Not to mention I could introduce you to many "retarded" people who are skinny and have 2 eyebrows (though I have no idea what that has to do with disability)

anyway if you were wondering why I had the response I did, that's why, sorry to cause so much consternation.

[Hopihe37]

YOU, looking retarded???? Why? Look at me. You have no double chin, slack jaws, uni-brows, odd features, etc.

[gorramdoll]

@Hopihe37 go fuck yourself in the face

[zag2]

hi ^.^ I just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed your video and that I can relate to a lot of what you said... in a lot of ways, I've always kind of used people when it comes to my various disabilities...like for example, I always make my friends and family check things out for me at the register... I do feel kind of self-conscious when I'm standing next to them though... I typically just twist my fingers and zone out. anyway, good luck with everything ^.^ I hope all goes well for you.

[gorramdoll]

that's cool that you do that

[antjanlosen]

I recognize so much in my self hearing you talk. It's not easy living in a world when every body else is weird and you are the one who is normal.

I also have this feeling of being a girl, although I am a boy. The good part is I'm also lesbian so nobody can tell i'm gay! Which probably makes it much easier for me, than it is for you.

I don' think i will ever fully accept what's between my legs though. =p

Thanks for your video!

[420kdougs]

this sounds exactly like me. im 17 now and i used to do the manic pixie dream girl thing but i felt so fake i hated myself. i tried to stop cuz i wanted to figure out who i am but i just took on another persona. and this one was harder to hide my slowness? i guess you could call it. didnt hide my aspergers as well either. now i'm just kinda lost and don't know what to do with myself. i'm trying to just be me and not focus on what other people think about me. easier said than done.

[masterkey14]

you dont have to be adorable. Just make a video thats easy to follow. More to the core and to the facts.not so much details. or make two seperate's one's.

[electricundergound]

A really good video I have recently been diagnosed with aspergers and dyspraxia and it was a total shock because I thought the way I felt and thought was normal. I had no idea that I had aspergers. Thank you for uploading I enjoy your videos and its very brave of you to do so.

[violinist881]

I think you express yourself very well for an aspie and I admire you for that:)

[Hopihe37]

and you admit that.

[Hopihe37]

Yes, you are very stupid.

[blickblocks]

@gorramdoll I score pretty high for AS and ADHD (people say you can't have both, idk, I score high for both), and I'm also trans and a lesbian. I seem to only get along with people of my own neurotypical spectrum. Dating isn't easy, it's like I'm from another planet most of the time.