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appreciates things in the same ways that we appreciate them.
oftentimes, I get along particularly well with foreign students,
since being an Aspie is surprisingly similar to being a
foreign student in your own country. As long as the foreign
students don't have a bunch of other foreign students to hang
out with, at least. With foreign students, it's okay if a situation
is awkward.
People, even those who really like me, always try to keep
some distance from me. I definitely notice it, and it often
hurts. It has sometimes gotten me angry at the entirety of
humanity in the past. But I don't know — at least Academia
keeps you sufficiently busy that you always manage to find
someone else so that you'll forget your anger at people who
ignore you.
I've actually noticed that a number of Aspies can often become
prolific trolls as well — since trolling is often one of the
only ways they can get people to enjoy their presence (and it
often works, quite well, too!). It's much easier to get someone
to actually laugh at something you say or do (and for a legit
reason too) by trolling than by doing something else. Most
Aspies seem to troll in a way different from that of most neurotypicals,
but it's hard to describe.
It often does feel profoundly isolating, but as Simon Baron-Cohen
once said on edge.org, the Internet is super-liberating
for all of us. For me in particular, I guess I can usually be
okay since I have the combination of Internet and Academia.
one thing I'm known for doing is posting sprees of
threads, questions, or status updates. I have almost no intuition
for whether or not people will actually like my content
(and the most-followed/liked items often surprise me), so I
end up with a very low signal to noise ratio on many of my
questions/status updates.
And we certainly do appreciate the recognition that a lot
of people on the Internet and in educational institutions that
people have for Aspies. I used to use Asperger's Syndrome
as an excuse for everything, but I no longer use it very much
because I started feeling ASHAMeD of doing that, because
having Asperger's doesn't always excuse us from at least trying
to understand others a bit more. nonetheless, I've learned
that even when I do try to understand others more, I'll still be
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