“There’s a liberty that comes when everything is broken. There’s a freedom of purpose. “
When I was little I wanted to make robots. I was going to be an inventor. Robots were the future, they were going to be everything, and I was going to design them.
I’d spend ages drawing pictures of different tin-cans with claws and wheels and springs.
I remember being frustrated that I didn’t know how to put them together. I didn’t know how to create.
Whenever any appliance broke, I would ask if I could have a screwdriver and a hammer and take it apart.
It’s an adorable image, isn’t it? A small girl in her turquoise t-shirt dress with boats on it (labels secretly removed by her with the scissors she wasn’t allowed to use) sat at the kitchen table, carefully taking apart a toaster. Trying to find its secrets in the hopes that it would help her make robots.
Legs dangling from the chair. Chin barely above…
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THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY 
I’m not sure you should embrace this with such gusto. From my own experience, albeit somewhat different, people aren’t generally at ease with differences of these proportions. I’m a covert schizoid and having examined the evidence I decided that in 95% of cases that’s better kept to myself. Most become terribly uneasy when they go off doing their own research on the matter.
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Hi Mr. M.
I do truly appreciate your kind attitude of concern, and I fully agree with you. I am actually afraid of the future. But on the other hand, and I guess you know how that feels, I can’t go back to my 0ver 50 years of living like someone else. For the first time in my life, I feel like being myself. It’s indeed liberating, even if that means I’ll have to live on the fringe…
Of course, I won’t put a sticker on my forehead, saying “Asperger’s”, and be cautious, but at least I can act as myself, not as someone else, and that’s empowering. Thank you my Friend for interacting, your advice it is well thought.
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It’s definitely good to know. It sort of takes the weight off of one’s shoulders. The self-blaming can finally stop. I like to look at a diagnosis as an explanation rather than a definition 😉
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Now that’s just superb 🙂
I love great thoughts and that’s one of them, looking at a diagnosis as an explanation, not a definition. I’ll add that to my quotes collection 🙂
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I just added your thought to the top of “My Quotes” page. Thank you 🙂
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Awesome post 🙂
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Thank you SO much😇
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