My dream job! Working alone in something that doesn’t require me to interact with people in any way: I could spend easily twelve hours a day alone in a room working in what I have to do and never see and talk to anyone for months, and I’ll be happy! I know because I’ve done it before, so I say this by my own experience in the past.
All my problems of stress and nervousness come from the interaction with people. It is when I have to deal with them that I need to take Seredyn to reduce anxiety. Even when standing in a street and seeing a stranger approaching me to ask something creates stress in me. As an example, walking in a street where there’s people around can be very entertaining while providing me a feeling of connection with society and the human race. It is when one of those people looks at me and wants to start a verbal connection when a sort of panic and anxiety starts due to knowing by years of experience that I don’t have the instinctive tools in my brain to handle such situation. I don’t have the required software in my brain, as humans do!
If I don’t have to interact with them but only with my activities and nature, I’m happy!
In those moments there is no Asperger problem and my brain is designed and built for the tasks at hand and the enjoyment of the surroundings…life is good!
Yes, we aspies have to fight against the idea that normal people is our problem, but don’t worry; it’ll be a too easy answer, and we aspies tend to keep searching and asking for more details, so we discard that answer as illogic and segregationist.
Instead we believe the system or civilization so far, since it was created by normal people, doesn’t provide room for us, thus classifying us as having a “condition”, rather than accepting us as just another point within the spectrum. In other words, since the range of brain differences accepted is too small, we fall outside of it and become “suitable for treatment”, while if the range was extended due to understanding that differences not only happen in the body physical plane but also in the brain and mind plane, then we would be just an example of a wider variation, like a very tall person…an extreme but not necessarily a “condition”.
Until people (humans) accept and support the concept of a wider “brain wiring range”, we will continue to be considered someone with a “condition”, and no matter how many people can be open minded and accept us and integrate us, the general concept will remain the same, making us Aspies to be a secondary, external and disconnected part of society, forcing us to fight our own battle with pills and medications to control our “acquired” anxiety and depression when having to deal with society in general and humans in particular, forcing us to dream of working alone rather than in an integrated way in human society.
Raul
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