The world from the perspective of an Aspy

[Cephalon]

I'm Cephalon, age 16, and I have Aspergers. Here's my perspective on the aloof world:

Having Aspergers is like being a supercomputer with ridiculously slow internet. Just... don't even bother communicating on anything you can do yourself. You'll realize a solution mid-sentence and then you'll have to explain why you don't need the other person's help without insulting their intelligence. The latter part is the hardest.

Most days, I wake up knowing that I am one of the few people that will know, and even fewer that will care, that carrots do not make your eyesight better. Or that despite Einstein's denial, God does indeed play dice with the universe in the form of electron behavior. Or that any number of completely arbitrary facts exist and are undeniably interesting to the hyper-curious mind.

I live most of my life fantasizing about a world where I was normal. And believe it or not, the one where no one makes eye contact during their conversations is by every measure the better one.

 

[MaXenzie]

whenever i see a post like this it always ends up being wanky as fuck

Having Aspergers is like being a supercomputer with ridiculously slow internet. Just... don't even bother communicating on anything you can do yourself. You'll realize a solution mid-sentence and then you'll have to explain why you don't need the other person's help without insulting their intelligence. The latter part is the hardest.

as someone who knows people with aspergers, a good portion of them actually listen to megalovania remixes at max volume in the middle of my fucking physics lesson, and do not give a shit about whether or not carrots make their eyesight better


not gonna quote the rest, but i will correct your title

"the world from the perspective of a narcissist"

the traits you're displaying is severe narcissism, see:

being a supercomputer with ridiculously slow internet

you don't need the other person's help without insulting their intelligence.

I wake up knowing that I am one of the few people that will know

aspergers is trouble communicating and getting your feelings across, along with lack of understanding of social norms and awareness of cues.
aspergers does not make you an inherent genius

 

[Cephalon]

MaXenzie Well said. It's difficult to explain my lack of faith in most people without showing you how I interact with things vs. how I've observed non-autistic individuals do so. We obtain information faster, retain it easier, and apply it more productively. I speak from the heart when I say it's difficult to care about people when they simply fail to see beyond themselves. As for the narcissist part, I actually have fairly low self-esteem. I self-injure quite frequently, consistently blame myself for things that, in hindsight, really have nothing to do with me, and a whole bunch of other things. Where I will give myself credit, though, is intellect. I took an IQ test when I was twelve, and dealing with severe ADHD issues, and scored 136. I recently took a test similar to an IQ test in both content and scoring and have somewhere between 140 and 160 IQ.

So, I feel that given my lifelong observations, as well as what can only be described as "people being people", I have the right to complain. I'm genuinely invested in the world and I wish people didn't screw each other over for dominance. I wish we could bring about positive changes for the masses through technology, and not focus so much of our efforts on ourselves and being personally successful.

 

[Isuckatgaming]

aspergers does not make you an inherent genius

this is true

people with aspergers are however, prone to extreme curiosity and thus deep knowledge about a few and often very random subjects. This is also helped by a deep focus that seems to be common in most people with asp. Also, the brain of someone with asp does have an easier time noticing small details others wouldn't.

This all makes them much more likely to be smarter than the average person (at least in a few subjects) but is without a doubt not a requirement for having aspergers or being on the autism spectrum in general. It's an annoying misconception

 

[TheInnkeeper]

i have aspergers


shut up

you're just wrong in most of ur points

p


edit:

take your head out of your anus mr extraordinary genius

 

[Deleted member 6062]

you ok mate

 

[Isuckatgaming]

i have aspergers


shut up

you're just wrong in most of ur points

p


edit:

take your head out of your anus mr extraordinary genius

where's the sub 40 category for people like me

 

[MaXenzie]

i dont know where to even start replying

all i'll say is that if you have 160 iq you should not be on nebulous.cloud and instead you should be innovating the world like einstein and hawking did, since you're apparently as smart as them

post for a guy thats been gone for 6 weeks

 

[Redhunter]

Most days, I wake up knowing that I am one of the few people that will know, and even fewer that will care, that carrots do not make your eyesight better. Or that despite Einstein's denial, God does indeed play dice with the universe in the form of electron behavior. Or that any number of completely arbitrary facts exist and are undeniably interesting to the hyper-curious mind.

 

[Isuckatgaming]

MaXenzie Well said. It's difficult to explain my lack of faith in most people without showing you how I interact with things vs. how I've observed non-autistic individuals do so. We obtain information faster, retain it easier, and apply it more productively. I speak from the heart when I say it's difficult to care about people when they simply fail to see beyond themselves. As for the narcissist part, I actually have fairly low self-esteem. I self-injure quite frequently, consistently blame myself for things that, in hindsight, really have nothing to do with me, and a whole bunch of other things. Where I will give myself credit, though, is intellect. I took an IQ test when I was twelve, and dealing with severe ADHD issues, and scored 136. I recently took a test similar to an IQ test in both content and scoring and have somewhere between 140 and 160 IQ.

So, I feel that given my lifelong observations, as well as what can only be described as "people being people", I have the right to complain. I'm genuinely invested in the world and I wish people didn't screw each other over for dominance. I wish we could bring about positive changes for the masses through technology, and not focus so much of our efforts on ourselves and being personally successful.

honestly man i've been trying to understand this post for the past several minutes but it's just too big brain for me

doesn't help that the paragraph size is way off, 7 lines is a bit too much of a stretch

 

[Dr Heckyll]

legendary thread, copypasta material

 

[Cephalon]

MaXenzie, if I had any unique ideas to offer the world, I would. The problem lies with the fact that I'm not particularly specialized in any one area. I'm an incredibly smart 16-year-old, but I don't know enough about particular subjects to actually begin working in them. For instance, I don't know even the basics when it comes to operating lab equipment, nevermind the safety shit that goes along with it. But I know way more than I should about some aspects of biology, microbiology, and physiology. Still not enough to assume a career role in those fields, though.

Most of the sentiment behind this post is my frustration that I'm smart enough to see the bigger picture of the world but too stupid to change it. Most people seem to have neither... Or they're really, really good at pretending not to care about the finer details.

 

[Dr Heckyll]

Most of the sentiment behind this post is my frustration that I'm smart enough to see the bigger picture of the world but too stupid to change it.

what's the bigger picture?

 

[the last man]

bait or not im swallowing because i want to write something:

It is a quite common trend for young people that have early interests in science and in intellectualism to come to some sort of conclusion that they're inherently smarter (whether they are or not irrelevant) and that the rest of the World simply doesn't understand. This effect may be greatly enhanced by both the societal stereotypes and actual effects of certain diagnoses, in this case aspergers which can inhibit one's ability to communicate with others combined with the common trope that people with aspergers are more prone to being "geniuses".

This is a phase most people grow out of and you will most probably look back to these kinds of statements with some degree of embarassment in the future. Furthermore, I suggest you stray away from determining your intellectual ability based on a number you got from a test, it serves you no purpose aside from self-absorbtion or over/underestimation of your own capabilities.

 

[TheInnkeeper]

MaXenzie, if I had any unique ideas to offer the world, I would. The problem lies with the fact that I'm not particularly specialized in any one area. I'm an incredibly smart 16-year-old, but I don't know enough about particular subjects to actually begin working in them. For instance, I don't know even the basics when it comes to operating lab equipment, nevermind the safety shit that goes along with it. But I know way more than I should about some aspects of biology, microbiology, and physiology. Still not enough to assume a career role in those fields, though.

Most of the sentiment behind this post is my frustration that I'm smart enough to see the bigger picture of the world but too stupid to change it. Most people seem to have neither... Or they're really, really good at pretending not to care about the finer details.

ok sure maybe you're smart


its not because you're an aspie

tard

 

[Khiel]

if you didnt have aspergers this would be really funny but its just sad

 

[Dr Heckyll]

if you didnt have aspergers this would be really funny but its just sad

it's still pretty funny

 

[Khiel]

it's still pretty funny

yeah but its one of those things you feel like a cunt for laughing at

 

[Josh]

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE

 

[Whilt]

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