Published on 12, July, 2020
There's another question that sprang to mind this morning.
What defines your autism?
I have noticed that most of the posts on the forum appear to be about our vulnerabilities.
So, is our autism defined by our vulnerabilities?
Certainly the sensitivities and communication difficulties can make us more vulnerable to stress and isolation.
Any positives anyone?
I'm still thinking about that one.
There is a lot of food for thought once we have obtained recognition either personally or professionally.
Normal? No, thank you.
I'd rather be me even if it means alone.
I get to do all kind of cool things they wouldn't come up with in a million years, and they would need another million to understand it.
Like giving cool names to anything and everything: Clueless Copycats, The Furious Blinking Response, Radical Solutions, or nicknames that stick to a person for life.
I can talk to myself and never get bored. <-- my favourite kind of joke, it's the truth !!!
Mariusz said:ike giving cool names to anything and everything: Clueless Copycats, The Furious Blinking Response, Radical Solutions, or nicknames that stick to a person for life.
I've given my neighbours nicknames.
Mr Fussy
Mr and Mrs Grumpy
Mr and Mrs Angry
The Clean family
My colleagues:
King Salomon The Wise
PaulAnonymous
Ashton Martin
Nacho The Cookie
Matchstick
Half-orc
Simonella
She Bites
Blondie Alien
Edyta Pure Evil
His Excellency
...
Iwould be hard pressed to tell their real names
that's a really unique one. How did they come up with it?
I think that allistic learn names if they find you interesting or exploitable or othwerwise inciting remembering it.
My issue with not remebering names is more along the line of limited capacity in memory for words. That's the only conclusion I can draw so far. So if I make a nickname out of words I would remember anyway for other reasons it helps me, because I can retain them in my memory identifiable, otherwise they would become like most - just blank, nameless faces. 20 years is maksimum limit for unused word to remain in my memory.
Eventually all words fades into ocean of forgetfulness. My memories from childhood are speechless, except added later 'subtitles/transcript'
Years ago i knew a guy for about three years. He came to me one day and asked me what my name was. I had the nickname greenlegs and had known him for years and that is all everyone called me.
I dont know why that one died out.
In childhood I was called many things, but there was one among them that I actuallly liked, and I've never told anybody, they found my posture unnaturaly stiff and they thaught I wouldn't like being called 'robot' , in adulthood they're more restrained as I am more outspoken now and they wouldn't dare getting in open hostilities with me, but backstabbing happens a lot, or talking behind my back. As 'they' I mean bully types and their circles of lackeys, those types are everywhere.