Confessions of Atlas

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

When I was like thirteen, I was stoked for a Spitzer/McCain unity ticket for 2008.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

When I was like thirteen, I was stoked for a Spitzer/McCain unity ticket for 2008.

Hasn’t aged well.

no it Sure Hasn't that's why it's a confession

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I like Taylor Swift music oh yeah! I'm out of the closet on that one, and it feels so liberating! She makes great music, and I refuse to be ashamed anymore!

Swift is a legitimately fantastic songwriter regards of one's thoughts on her as a person, and this is commonly acknowledged among people who don't have a weirdly specific hateboner for her. (I think Reputation was a dud though.)

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As BRTD has rightly called me out for in another thread, I voluntarily listened to "I Want It That Way" today.

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I hate being autistic and feel like a second-class person. I'm jealous of people that don't have to deal with so many challenges.

I know this feel all too well.

Same. You're not a second-class person, though; none of us are; nobody is.

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I hate being autistic and feel like a second-class person. I'm jealous of people that don't have to deal with so many challenges.

I know this feel all too well.

Autism being a spectrum and all, I've had to deal with severely autistic people who could barely function. Presumably, since you can post on this site coherently and rather intelligently, you're toward the middle of the spectrum, say, Asperger's? I could be way off base. But I know even the so-called Normies deal with the same awkwardness and insecurity, it's simply handled in another way. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I was diagnosed in December.  According to my shrink, they don't differentiate between "high-functioning" and "low-functioning" anymore and Asperger's is no longer a medical term.  I don't know if I agree with that, but I'm not a psychologist.

Part of the issue about "functioning level" (in addition to the unnecessary and unedifying stigmas surrounding being "low-functioning") was that somebody can function very well at one task (say, posting on Atlas, or academic work) and very poorly at another (say, personal hygiene, or holding steady employment). Or vice versa.