Published on 12, July, 2020
They're physicists or engineers of whatever. They excel at education, they get married, they don't get diagnosed until they're 40 or older.
Because they're not as autistic as us. They don't have what we have and their success only offers false hope to those who have failed all education miserably and live with their parents, receiving disability benefits or suffering in shitty bottom of the ladder jobs and never getting laid in their lives.
That's my opinion.
We might *look* successful - but it comes at great cost - normally constant bullying and abuse until we burn out and lose it all later in life.
Looking back, I would have been much better off on benefits without all the stress of trying so hard for so long.
Both your replies confirm my belief that I should give up on trying to be successful and just sit on the sidelines of life with my benefits until the grim reaper finally arrives. You told me earlier that being faced with certain death made you value your life. I think I'd just be ecstatically happy.
Successful is a relative measure - my health problems are caused by a stress-related illness (ulcerative colitis) that has got way out of control and is too far gone. I simply wouldn't be in this position if I'd not had to endure all those years of unbearable stress.
Looking back, I should have been put in some kind of home and spent my life making my award-winning models and just by-passing the worries of life,
There's nothing stopping you finding your niche and excelling at it.and becoming successful in your own way - but measuring and comparing yourself to the classic NT lifestyle may be more stress than you might want.