ANYWAYS, IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE THEY Y'ALLED ASPERGERS FROM THE DSM AND CATEGORIZED IT AS AUTISM AND IM STILL FRICKING UPSET.
SO IF YOU SOMEHOW DON'T KNOW ASPERGERS IS A SPIN-OFF/COUSIN OF THE 'TISM WITH A FEW DISTINCT CHARACTERISTICS. ONE, SPERGERS DOESN'T ACTUALLY AFFECT INTELLIGENCE/COGNITIVE ABILITY AND MOST SPERGS HAVE AVERAGE TO ABOVE AVERAGE IQ. (UNIRONICALLY MASTER RACE)
BUT LIKE ALL NEURODIVERGENTS SPERGS ARE SOCIALLY R-SLURRED AND HAVE NO INSTINCTUAL/SUBCONSCIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF BODY LANGAUGE, SOCIAL CUES, OR ADDED/CHANGED MEANING IN TONE OF VOICE.
SPERGS ALSO DON'T KNOW HOW TO READ THE ROOM. AND OFTEN ONCE THEY LEARN TO DO SO, MANY STILL DON'T (SEE: THIS POST)
AND EVEN THOUGH SPERGS ARE AWKWARD, MISSHAPED, SOCIAL REJECTS ICOULD ALWAYS SAY: HEY, AT LEAST I'M NOT ACTUALLY NEURODIVERGENT.
THAT WAS UNTIL SOME DRIBBLING EXCUSE FOR A FRICKING VEGTABLE WITH A 1:1 RATIO OF CHROMOSOMES TO BRAIN CELLS DECIDED THAT THE IDEA THAT SPERGY NERDS WERE BETTER THAN LITERAL R-SLURS WAS JUST TOO ""PROBLEMATIC""
BEFORE SPERGERS WAS CALLED MILD AUTISM, WHENEVER PEOPLE IN SCHOOL FOUND OUT ABOUT IT OR THOUGHT THAT I WAS ACTUALLY A R-SLUR CAUSE OF SPERGOUTS, I COULD JUST SAY LIKE. "NO, IT'S NOT LIKE THAT KINDA AUTISM, LIKE ITS NOT THE R-SLURRED AUTISM, ITS THE SMART NERD KIND". IF THEY THOUGHT I WAS A R-SLUR CAUSE I WAS SLOW WITH SOCIAL CUES I COULD EXPLAIN IT WITH A "LITERALLY WHAT?" DISORDER. BUT SINCE ASPERGERS HAD BEEN Y'ALLED FROM MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY, I WOULD NOW HAVE TO SHAMEFULLY ADMIT I HAD THE THING THOUGHT OF AS THE R-SLUR DISEASE WHENEVER PPL WERE LIKE: " UHHGGHH WHAT THE FRICK IS WRONG WITH THIS GUY IS HE STUPID OR JUST AN ANNOYING BUTTHOLE."
BUT APPARENTLY THE IDEA THAT SOME NEURODIVERGENTS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS WAS JUST TO HECCIN PROBLEMATIC. SO NOW WE HAVE TO SUFFER THE STIGMA FROM BEING GROUPED WITH ACTUAL
@Landlord_Messiah NOT VERY DRAMATIC SWEATY. PLEASE THROW YOUR SHORT BODY OFF A TALL BRIDGE.
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Left house today on Kellere's drugged recommendation. Sunlight brighter than I remember. Hurts eyes; skin. Paused to examine strange, Marsey-like creature lazing in next door garden, when elderly neighbour greeted me with "Good morning". A good sign: outside people growing increasingly woke on gussy question.
Before returning to attempted categorization of :marseygarden:, took opportunity to ask neighbour his thoughts Re: trains. In response he recommended an autism helpline, no doubt coyly referencing AGP phenomenon. Decided he was too much of a ruqqoid to be worth inviting to Taytay.life. Perhaps baitable? Will fetch cumjar and return to garden later.
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