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Wrong Planet

Martian Tom

Before I got my diagnosis, I used to think that I was just a human being who didn't fully understand how to be a human being - because every other human being (aside from my parents) seemed to reject me.

Now, post-diagnosis, I no longer feel that way.

Instead, I feel like an alien, inhabiting the wrong planet.

Whatever I do, I can't change that feeling.

I used to feel that my diagnosis gave me some form of validation.  I was a human being with a difference.

Now, I just feel that it consolidates my status as an alien.

I'm on the wrong planet. 

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  • I don't think it's that we're on the wrong planet. If you were alone in a forest you wouldn't be autistic, or different.

    I prefer the analogy that we're like cats, trying to pretend to be dogs. We look like other humans, but were essentially different in our nature.

    When I was at primary school, one day when observing the behaviour of some other children, who seemed to behave in an insensitive, uncaring way I wondered if they might be robots, not real children. Androids look like humans but are essentially different. The irony is that we are seen as having less empathy.

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  • I don't think it's that we're on the wrong planet. If you were alone in a forest you wouldn't be autistic, or different.

    I prefer the analogy that we're like cats, trying to pretend to be dogs. We look like other humans, but were essentially different in our nature.

    When I was at primary school, one day when observing the behaviour of some other children, who seemed to behave in an insensitive, uncaring way I wondered if they might be robots, not real children. Androids look like humans but are essentially different. The irony is that we are seen as having less empathy.

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