tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post4373170866847284093..comments2023-08-02T07:44:48.257-04:00Comments on Dude, I'm An Aspie.: I’m An Aspie. Period.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06092500646246056371noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-13003325035683229082010-10-22T07:47:06.431-04:002010-10-22T07:47:06.431-04:00i'm somewhere between exclamation and interrog...i'm somewhere between exclamation and interrogation point. i started like you, all: DUDE!! ( see i even put 2 of them) , then i started recieving weird signals from the world. messages saying " discovering you're autistic will not make the world make more of an effort or be interrested in getting to know you. It will only give them a free pass at patronising you and treating you as if you are retarded"<br />it can even get scary.<br />i live in france and i'm starting to get paranoid about social services knocking on my door and saying: we came to take your kids away , now be a good girl and don't make a fuss about it"<br />i think my punctuation will soon look like this : <br />:P ... it was a joke.clarinettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11407633860396579887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-28494782182442585012010-09-22T03:50:40.348-04:002010-09-22T03:50:40.348-04:00For me, it would be three dots. The journey is ong...For me, it would be three dots. The journey is ongoing.Julian Frosthttp://africanjungle.iblog.co.za/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-22015129654568440342010-09-20T21:04:12.200-04:002010-09-20T21:04:12.200-04:00Thanks for sharing, unstrangemind. I congratulate ...Thanks for sharing, unstrangemind. I congratulate you on picking yourself up and re-framing after so much hardship. From homelessness to higher education is huge progress. However, I also understand your uncertainty, and a semi-colon could definitely depict that.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092500646246056371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-82776888889440158022010-09-20T12:01:59.927-04:002010-09-20T12:01:59.927-04:00Before I read the comments, I was thinking semi-co...Before I read the comments, I was thinking semi-colon. It's not a wink for me, it's a holding pattern. It's a sign that the sentence isn't finished yet; there's more to come.<br /><br />I was diagnosed nine years ago, at the age of 34. Before that, I have a long string of jobs I couldn't keep longer than two weeks (with no idea why I kept getting fired) punctuated by devastating homeless spells. (And for someone with few or no friends, homelessness does not mean crashing around on people's couches.)<br /><br />Now that I'm diagnosed, I've been able to re-frame a lot of my life. I've been able to go to university. I have a lot of hope that my life will be very different after (if) I complete my doctorate. <br /><br />But maybe whatever-it-is that kept getting me fired is still there and maybe it won't matter that I'll have four degrees and maybe I'm just screwed? Or maybe not? <br /><br />I just won't know what the lay of the land is until I finish this doctorate (got a few more years to go) and get out there and try to find and keep a job and see what happens.<br /><br />So. A holding pattern. A semi-colon. I just don't realistically know where I am with my asperger's right now and whether or not I will be able to work with/around it or not.<br /><br />I would draw the person to look like your period dude but with eyebrows that slant a little bit up to the center - a concerned face. (But not a huge slant because that would be a worried face and the semi-colon is not worried, it's just concerned.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-59491131147935543142010-09-19T18:19:34.529-04:002010-09-19T18:19:34.529-04:00LOL - I'm just glad I learned something new to...LOL - I'm just glad I learned something new today!Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092500646246056371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-89436848212846226342010-09-19T17:52:46.442-04:002010-09-19T17:52:46.442-04:00Matt, no need to turn in your writer badge. I'...Matt, no need to turn in your writer badge. I'm an editor as well as a writer (and about 20 years your senior), so if I say you get to keep the badge, then you get to keep the badge, ya hear? And if anyone gives you a problem, you just send them to me... :-)Rachel Cohen-Rottenberghttp://www.journeyswithautism.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-79982251307370242082010-09-19T13:15:56.071-04:002010-09-19T13:15:56.071-04:00Rachel, I like your explanation and I think it'...Rachel, I like your explanation and I think it's very common, being a work in progress. More punctuation I had not thought of!<br /><br />*Wonders if I need to turn in my writer badge since I did not know it was called an ellipsis...*Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092500646246056371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-12115327682019623482010-09-19T12:02:26.519-04:002010-09-19T12:02:26.519-04:00Hmmm...I'm not sure what punctuation to use. I...Hmmm...I'm not sure what punctuation to use. It was a major relief two years ago to figure out that I have Asperger's (!), then I went through the grief of letting go of decades of dreams (is there a punctuation mark for that?), then I started discovering gifts I'd never known I'd had (!), then I became painfully aware of being part of a stigmatized minority that most people view through a lens of distortion. <br /><br />If I'm just with myself and centered in my own experience, I feel very happy and peaceful. When I think about the nonsense that passes for critical thought about autism, I feel very alienated. So, maybe I ought to use an ellipsis, just to show that it's all a work in progress: Dude, I'm autistic...Rachel Cohen-Rottenberghttp://www.journeyswithautism.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-62807976673822892962010-09-19T04:32:00.385-04:002010-09-19T04:32:00.385-04:00I'm an exclamation point about 99% of the time...I'm an exclamation point about 99% of the time.DJ Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08481107164497582398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-18337310959643144842010-09-18T20:32:06.055-04:002010-09-18T20:32:06.055-04:00Thanks, Stimey. Semi-colon? Hmm, how would I draw ...Thanks, Stimey. Semi-colon? Hmm, how would I draw an expression for that... oh yeah, of course! ;)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06092500646246056371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1048204038013184233.post-43681088636687368112010-09-18T16:43:56.146-04:002010-09-18T16:43:56.146-04:00Seriously, dude, however you punctuate it, your me...Seriously, dude, however you punctuate it, your message is great. My guess is that it would rotate through all those marks. And maybe the occasional semi-colon.<br /><br />I love your blog and your cartoons. Good stuff.Stimeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09685801693683588805noreply@blogger.com