Shout out why you are proud not to be normal

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 

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  • I haven't worn a wristwatch since 1997, I realised that I took them off, because they irritated my skin, and kept them in my pocket most of the time. In 1997 I bought a pocket watch. I now own 8 and a range of watch chains. I often wear a waistcoat just for the ease of looking at my pocket watch.

    I sing songs and replace the lyrics with my own nonsense words. The sound of my electric razor induces me to hum little tunes that harmonise with it.

  • I want to do this, but haven't really had the courage to even look at how much pocket watches go for or worked out how I would wear one. Frowning2

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