Cephalon
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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.
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.
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