Aspergers is a mild form of autism. They mostly just lack social skills, but they can learn,and imitate, through experience how to get a little better, even managable. That’s how its been i think with me, I need meds, but on top of the meds I can learn the same way as Asperger people how to kind of fill in the missing pieces, the quirks of the illness.
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I think you are completely right on this - and the research supports this view.
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I can imitate neurotypical behaviour, but I don’t regard neurotypical communication as better. It’s inefficient and annoying if one is to be honest. I don’t view that part of myself as broken.
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Seems like overthinking. Five year olds learn how to talk , walk, almost all things by imitation. If you can’t imitate something even though that’s the simplest way to learn, that and repitition, than I guess I understand. But research does show aspergers pt learning to imitate social cues, and responses. Imitation is a simple word. I learned how to keep my serotonin levels up by imitating someone just by watching them, and hearing them say “got to keep your serotonin levels up” I can’t put how i do it into words, but the reality is i can imitate what i saw that guy doing, mind and body. Simple, simple imitation. It’s really just copying, but it uses all our faculties, nuerological, apptitude capacities, and well, just copy. It’s pretty easy. Just to know I will never be anything but a huge non-comformist, but I also learned by imitation how to not give a ■■■■, and still do all these petty stupid things society says you have to do , " because its the right thing to do",. I just show one thing, dont let it affect me, and hide the truth. I’d rather live like the indians did.
The brain never stops adapting to its environment if you are focused on finding the best possible solution to life’s hard problems.
I sometimes wonder how much SZ is my fault and how much of it is others or random chance. But, I am trying to fine tune my curse to be a blessing. There’s no need to feel like I am “ill” or incapable of doing great things despite being invovlved in constant hallucinatory projects.
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I have mild Aspergers. I got better with social skills by working in retail, going to CC, and volunteering for hundreds of hours. It took me 21 years to make real eye contact but I learned to fake it long before. Still haven’t had a girlfriend or had sex yet.
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Always thought how cool it would be to find someone “girlfriend” dealing with the same illness, i think it be awesome