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| 42435 | Asperger's | I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 1996 during time I spent in a mental hospital. It's been both a blessing and a curse at times.<div><br></div><div>The curse part comes from things like, among others, taking language literally and having trouble understanding things like irony, teasing and sarcasm. Sometimes I'll be ringing up a customer at work and they'll say something that sounds like a compliment, but it turns out to be a joke and an insult. To my ear, it's all the same. My speaking is often verbose, oftentimes too formal, and has certain tics, most notably starting many of my sentences in my interviews with words like "alright", "okay" and "cool". Those tics were attacked by a user on here when it came to their negative feedback for my Adam F. Goldberg interview, and led me to a brief relapse into the self-abusive behaviors of my teens and 20s, including hitting myself in the head and screaming profanities and hateful things to myself at the top of my lungs.</div><div><br></div><div>Physically, it's mixed. I wasn't able to ride a two-wheel bike until I was almost 10 years old, and physical education was my worst subject out of all the subjects I was bad at in my school days. I exercise these days, but my preferred form of exercise is walking around my neighborhood. I try and keep clean, but it isn't easy, and I've often been complained about at work for my hygiene and the condition of my clothing.</div><div><br></div><div>When it comes to friendships and relating to people, I have quite a few friends, but most of them are older than I am. Of the friends I had in my childhood, the Monti family have been the only friends I've really kept in touch with as an adult. Other than that, I've only been able to get along with people my own age once I became an adult, but especially in my 30s.</div><div><br></div><div>I would often discuss life with Asperger's Syndrome on RetroJunk, and I, along with the other users who dealt with it, was often attacked and made fun of for having it. We all revealed a lot about ourselves on that forum and came to know each other very well. I was called things on RetroJunk like "Mongoloid" and "Ignorant Aspie F-Bomb", and those words hurt. My mother had no sympathy for me, though. She said they were just words on a page written by people I would never meet, and I couldn't tell what the intent behind words were just by reading them. She would say it's a beautiful day in several different tones of voice to indicate that you can't tell what a person is feeling by their words, but when you're called a retard or a liar, you know what's behind those words, and it isn't respect or friendliness.</div><div><br></div><div>I was not a good student, preferring to concentrate on pop culture in my high school years as opposed to what we were supposed to be studying. The concentration on pop culture turned out to be a blessing, and this is related to Asperger's. One of the aspects of Asperger's is an intense focus on a particular subject. For me, it was the pop culture of the 1980s, which I turned to in the 1990s and 2000s as a form of escape from the problems I was dealing with in that decade, not only with my AS diagnosis, but with things like extensive bullying, the death of my father when I was 12, and the codependent, toxic and abusive relationship my mother and I had in the last 15 years of her life.</div><div><br></div><div>I turned to the pop culture of the 1980s because I saw in that decade what I aspired to the most, things like maturity, calm, and being happy with life. The pop culture of the 80s helped me through some of the darkest times of my life, and has stayed with me as my life has improved in my 30s. As a result of that, I've been able to do scores of interviews with talents who were active in the 1980s, many of whom are my Facebook friends, and several of whom, like Kimmy Robertson of "The Last American Virgin", Jennifer Rubin of "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors", and Debra Lamb of 80s cult classics like "Deathrow Gameshow", have become dear friends whom I regularly exchange texts with and get advice from.</div><div><br></div><div>That's life with Asperger's Syndrome for me, and thankfully, things have been better for me in my 30s than they were in my teens and 20s, and life just keeps getting better for me.</div> | Caps 2.0 | Mar 27, 2019 |  |
| 42434 | Asperger's | From my years on RJ I developed the crude ability to kind of pick up on when people might have been on the spectrum, just by their posting habits - But you never even were a blip on the radar. I'm somewhat on the fence about labels, since everyone is so different. <div><br></div><div>Besides knowing the minute details of things, what else makes life hard? Has it had an adverse affect on your marriage? I have this inkling my wife might have some issues - she's sensitive to light and loud noises, freaks if her "routine" is changed, etc - But she's pretty normal socially.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> | vkimo | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42433 | Corrupt-A-Wish: Retro Daze Edition | <p>@jkatz: Wish granted. You are now able to conjure air sandwiches.</p><p><br></p><p>I wish my Walt Disney corpse came to life and made me CEO of his company</p> | Vaporman87 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42432 | Asperger's | <p>Thanks for being open about your new journey in life echidna. I bet there are a few here who appreciate it. It’s odd to me how drawn to nostalgic things those on the spectrum are. I wonder why that is? </p> | Vaporman87 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42431 | How was your day? | Still a fun idea.<br> | Mr Magic | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42430 | The Café | <div>That dude from Empire won't be charged after all.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.etonline.com/jussie-smolletts-co-stars-react-to-all-charges-being-dropped-against-him-122217">https://www.etonline.com/jussie-smolletts-co-stars-react-to-all-charges-being-dropped-against-him-122217</a><br></div> | Mr Magic | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42429 | Asperger's | <div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">i was diagnosed at age 2 growing up with social issues and like you i also have had an obsession with video games, and during my teen years my antisocial behavior really began to show with high school, and being bullied had me taking antidepressants for a while. whenever i'm in a conversation in person with a small group of people it's fine, but i tend to freeze for a moment when making a reply. online that really isn't a problem because i don't have to worry about the awkwardness of pausing before saying something. i also have a memory problem when it comes to learning something new. when i was working in janitorial it took me roughly a week to get the hang of where stuff goes, and where and when things needed cleaned, but as a couple of employees left, the manager stacked more chores for me to do and it got overwhelming, so i am a bit thankful for having SSI now for that reason because i'd rather not have some kind of meltdown in public.<br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the only thing i don't look forward to is meeting new people who don't know how asperger's works from one person to another. i have a few relatives who used to expect better out of me in going off to college and achieving a dream job or something. I can't, and I know I can't because my years of high school just made me have a hard time trusting people and even after graduating I just made the decision not to have a career and keep all of my art and characters into the simplicity of being simple projects done for leisure. After all it's a scary world out there today, and you never know when a character or idea you create ends up becoming an unnecessary cash cow that's milked to death.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">oddly enough, my character gilda was in concept to be in a handful of children's books, but it never caught on because i felt like i didn't have the proper support to make it happen. i created gilda's sister, gerda as like a way of autism awareness. she doesn't have autism, per se, but she has the traits of autistic behavior.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Verdana; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></div><img width="269" height="161" src="/images/postImages/1553717458gerda.png"></div> | Benjanime | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42428 | Corrupt-A-Wish: Retro Daze Edition | <blockquote rel="jkatz"><b>jkatz wrote :</b><br><i> You become a director and enjoy critical and commercial success...for about six weeks, until you get #metoo'd for unwittingly brushing up against a female intern.<div><br></div><div>I wish I could conjure up sandwiches out of thin air.</div> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>LOL I knew I shouldn't have given her a high-five! | echidna64 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42427 | Corrupt-A-Wish: Retro Daze Edition | You become a director and enjoy critical and commercial success...for about six weeks, until you get #metoo'd for unwittingly brushing up against a female intern.<div><br></div><div>I wish I could conjure up sandwiches out of thin air.</div> | jkatz | Mar 27, 2019 | |
| 42426 | Corrupt-A-Wish: Retro Daze Edition | <blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br><i> <p>Wish granted. You previously had magical powers at some point in your past.</p><p><br></p><p>I wish I was the sole shareholder of Disney</p> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>You now hold the frozen corpse of Walt Disney in your hands<br><br>I wish that I was a Hollywood Director | echidna64 | Mar 27, 2019 | |
