Autism: pretending to be normal

My thoughts about why i find it usefull to sometimes pretend to be neurotypical.

Is it more important to be myself, than to be able to fake normalcy? I think both are important. Ill try to make sense of it all here.


Beware the rants again.

All ratings, comments or angry spam will be appriciated.

sorry about the sound.

also note, the sentence about Phil Commander is NOT in any way to be understood as critism towards him.


Any comments or ratings will be greatly appriciated.

nb: damn it, just noticed now, the damn cam ate my last sentence. should have been:

Pretending to be NT in regards to that is hypocritical, and its lie. But sometimes its a damn good lie. Sometimes
its a break from the real world, its a few minutes or hours when i am superman, when i master social interaction
and i feel i become not only attractED to the world, but attractiVE to the world.

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[inyunaruto365]

I'm just wondering what Neurotypical means? I keep asking what it means, but no one can really explain it to me.

Could you please explain it to me?

[BumsenDK]

@inyunaruto365 NT, or Neurotypical, means a person of typical neurology, a "normal" person. Vs an autistic person, who is neurological atypical :)

NT= Normal

[franknmag]

Do you have an email address I can contact you at? I would love to talk to you more about all of this...

[BumsenDK]

Ill answer questions via youtube messages, but i do get a few msgs and may not be able to respond to all

[darkjumpy]

I've tried to act NT for my whole life and I usually fail, because since I don't understand why NTs do the things they do, and I imitate their behaviours anyway, they come out as exaggerations. Like when actors do parodies of people.

[muffsan94]

You are so handsome!

[dinamo4889]

Has anyone else with AS done drugs like Ecstasy and weed to act normal. LSD and meth just make me delusional but ecstasy (MDMA) feels really good. I get drunk a lot when I go out to meet women in bars and clubs it helps me to act normal. Shakespeare once said the world is a stage and the men and women on it are players. 

[NoDraMuzz]

@Sean021122 Where abouts is a '38' score on the spectrum? I could never do a vid like so many other Aspies .. I'm too damn shy. Like 'metallicstucco', I just don't try NOT to be me anymore .. recently, after giving a 'friend' correct info after they asked (regarding a flower, of all things!) I then got told that I was 'discrediting' them! For heaven's sake don't ask an Aspie for info if you don't want to know! Well, that's one thing that's followed me from school days -then it was the teachers!

[SuperMissblueeyes]

interesting to hear from someone with a different condition having similar issues, but with a completely different cause. I'm also doing a course on autism & it's been so helpful to hear from people on YouTube who have autism or whose children or grandchildren have autism. It gives you a more accurate picture of what it's like. Thank you for sharing your story. The only problem I had was that you were so quiet talking. The storm wasn't a problem, it was just the volume of your voice.

[SuperMissblueeyes]

Thanks for sharing your story. Although I don't have autism, I kinda get what you mean about social interaction being tiring, I have chronic fatigue, which makes socialising tiring & after a while, I hit a wall where I just want to go home or to my room for peace & quiet because I'm so exhausted by it. I also have hypersensitivity, which as well as making certain things uncomfortable, results in numerous conversations going on in a room merging & I can't hear what someone's saying to me. It's...

[rainearoha]

Glad I've got to the this stage in life too and now sit back accepting my aspergers traits and given up on trying to "fit in" If you ask me the mental health disorder here is trying to "fit in to a supposedly normal society" is this just a western view ... Social Skills dont exist when you use substances of any kind. Indigenous peoples dont label we are one and accepted..

[metallicstucco]

I just turned 50. I got so good at acting NT, that I've decided to "retire" from it. I like being myself better. There are certain social skills I developed that keep me from being rude or annoying etc. that are worth holding onto. But I don't mind people thinking I'm different, weird, quirky whatever anymore. I kinda get a kick out of it now that I'm older.

[Kletuskassidy]

This was like looking in the mirror. Thanks for sharing.

[Sean021122]

Anyone in here that is on the spectrum and is female, I would like to hear your take, your experiences with this, and what are you truly passionate about? . -sean-

[Sean021122]

@rainearoha Exactly. Noone should feel compelled to measure up to any nt's idea of normalcy. We need to be our own person. And not care what others think about it. If they like/accept us for that fine. If not, move on. I live by theis philosophy everyday.

[electricuniverse87]

@Sean021122 probably Google's NTs having a troll day