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Aella
@Aella_Girl
People often describe me as 'extremely weird', 'mentally atypical,' 'like an alien studying how humans work,' but I genuinely feel so normal from the inside. I feel like this is the obvious, default way to be and I'm continually confused why everyone else is so different from me.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
It's frequent, subtle little corrections, like I'm a bowling ball thrown by a toddler and hitting the side bumpers over and over again; I say something I think is normal and someone *freaks* out and Im like oh yeah riiiight that's not a normal thing to say I guess?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Or I ask a q I think is interesting and ppl think I must be doing it cause I'm... bad or something, but it's subtle, and they're like o yea aella? i blocked her cause i dont like her edginess. But for me its like, *what* edginess? Oh yeah right I guess to the world I am edgy?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
and i mean like the bowling ball i am getting corrected into the middle, I have learned a lot about what the world thinks is normal and what's weird, and I am pretty good at predicting it, but it doesn't feel *intuitive*, I have to pay it conscious attention.
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Lewis Jones
@lewisntjones
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@Aella_Girl
In the future people are gonna laugh that we used the ‘Autism Spectrum’ concept in the same way that we now laugh about people in the past using ‘Hysteria’ or ‘Lunacy’ as diagnoses. Such a broad brush label of such little value
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