An Aspie's Guide To Perspective, Part 2

Well, thanks to my computer being on the fritz, its time for another awkwardly (and laboriously) typed article on my iPhone (which you'd think would be in the iPhone dictionary). To be honest, I'm starting to get used to the thing, even enjoying it a little (though it kills me to admit even that) but one fingered typing is hardly the ideal way to prepare a large article, so we'll try to keep things concise. I've been spending a lot of time lately pondering the upside of Asperger's. Shit has been getting real lately and my dealing has been tenuous at best, which has lead to a greater desire to focus on the positive as best I can. I've come to a realisation; one perhaps not as startling as it first seemed, but a realisation nonetheless. My unique viewpoint, the things that separate me from society at large, do not make me less. In fact, unhindered by social restraints and niceties, it in fact makes me more. I see the world at its most pure. Chaotic, random and terrifying, yes, but beautiful and free of rules and hierarchy. Perhaps autism is not a 'disability' after all, but the next step in evolution. Cases are becoming more and more common, but is this really such a bad thing? In a society almost destroyed by endless manmade rules, laws and restrictions; endlessly governed by an archaic and broken socially contract, perhaps what we need is a movement away from these things. A movement pioneered by autistic people. Throughout history, change has been brought about by many people now considered to be autistic - Einstein and his science, Beethoven and his music, Julius Ceaser and his need to unite the world. I'm hardly proclaiming myself messiah, we all know how well that worked out for the last guy (resurrection and ascension notwithstanding); I'm simply putting forth the relatively harmless idea that perhaps my disability is really a boon and its the world that is wrong and broken and flawed, not me. Is the thought that everything you believe in, everything the world is built on, is broken really such a controversial idea. I'm simply putting forth a theorem as to where the answer may lie. Not with me, of course, but perhaps that person you ridiculed may have just the kind of unique insight to lead us to a better future. Maybe one day, Aspies like myself will outnumber "normal" folks and we will be the ones looking down on you. Or, if you're lucky, we will be the better people and welcome you to our new world. Bugger me, that got preachy. I can go on, but my hand is dead and this screen is a nightmare to read. I don't really have a witty adieu, so I'll simply end with a short plug for my other blog, youreviewau.blogspot.com (now with over 1000 views) and my catchphrase: consider yourself Aspergified. Goodnight, world.