There something I am not sure I will ever learn to fully understand and that is how neurotypical people can say one thing, but in reality, they mean something completely different. I understand that ‘Netflix and chill’ doesn’t actually mean you are invited to watch Netflix and chill, but I only know that because I’ve been told that it doesn’t. …
Life as a Mimic
So, over the last couple of weeks I talked a lot about some of my experience with hypersensitivity. I think I could talk about it forever, because this is one of the fundamental differences between me and everyone else. Me, a woman with Asperger’s, and everyone else – literally everyone else. Even other people on the spectrum might experience things …
Normal?
Normal is, according to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary “…conforming to a type, standard, or regular pattern.” It doesn’t say that normal is better than anything else, it doesn’t say that not being normal is a bad thing. Why do people then insistently argue that not being normal doesn’t make you less? What I mean is, when you say not being normal …