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Shout out why you are proud not to be normal

Billy87
over 1 year ago

I feel like the world is constantly trying to force us to be as "normal" as possible. By this I mean, being like everyone else and not being different, not being our autistic selves.

So I thought this would be a nice space for us to say some of things that make us different from NT people and to be proud of them.

I'll start

I like listening to 1970's Eastern European pop and modern German Schlager music rather than whatever is in the charts

I'm starting to develop my own fashion sense rather than trying to be cool and love wearing  football shirts from around the world and vintage 1970's clothes

I have a photographic memory for cricket scores

I use a basic LG keypad phone instead of a smartphone and I avoid most modern tech ( I have a smartphone I keep in a drawer and hardly use just for booking into things etc)

I love ducks and geese and swans and see them as my friends

I have over 200 cuddly animals in a big Ikea unit 

I am facinated by Eastern European history especially the former East Germany

I see the world very differently from how most people seem to and I like it that way

I have no interest in social media

I love being autistic and see it as a blessing rather than a disability 

Please share your stuff below if you would like to 

Parents
  • over 1 year ago

    I’ve only ever known my normal, it’s normal to me, I can’t tell you what other peoples normal is, they seem to act abnormally  most of the time. I’m watching less and less TV as it’s so predictable, I do love ‘ The one percent club’ though. It’s autistic heaven, questions like, “ what’s the pattern in this?” Autistic catnip!

    I don’t really socialise much anymore,  love 70’s and 80’s music. Once I have an idea, the research into becomes all consuming. I never buy expensive clothes, Primani is mostly my designer label. I do collect anything to do with Classic Mini cars, it’s getting up to a container size problem, I don’t inventory any of it, I know exactly what I have and where it is. I’ve had a thing since childhood with my things being touched or moved.

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  • over 1 year ago

    I’ve only ever known my normal, it’s normal to me, I can’t tell you what other peoples normal is, they seem to act abnormally  most of the time. I’m watching less and less TV as it’s so predictable, I do love ‘ The one percent club’ though. It’s autistic heaven, questions like, “ what’s the pattern in this?” Autistic catnip!

    I don’t really socialise much anymore,  love 70’s and 80’s music. Once I have an idea, the research into becomes all consuming. I never buy expensive clothes, Primani is mostly my designer label. I do collect anything to do with Classic Mini cars, it’s getting up to a container size problem, I don’t inventory any of it, I know exactly what I have and where it is. I’ve had a thing since childhood with my things being touched or moved.

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