Hey All,
I’m a 25-year-old guy very mildly on the spectrum. I was actually diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at 7 years old back when Asperger’s and autism were considered two different things.
Anyways, I’ve heard so many stories about autistic people getting mistreated, bullied, treated unfairly, and treated as lower class, etc. I’m curious if anyone here has tried to approach life in a similar way to President Donald Trump?
Because to be honest, ever since I was very young, I felt like I actually had a very similar personality to Trump and approached life a lot like him in many ways, even way before I knew he existed.
I was always someone that was very proud of my autism and would never let anyone discourage me. I remember back when I was in elementary, middle, and high school, I had people making fun of me for not having many friends or not fitting in, and this is how I responded and I meant it 100%: “There are so many stupid and immature students in school. You know what? I don’t want to fit in their exclusive and terrible cliques, I don’t want their friendship. They’re terrible people. I make friends with more mature people like our teachers and older adults that are friends with my parents, etc.”
I also remember being asked if I liked any girls in high school and my response was: “Nah, there is absolutely no girl here that’s mature enough and worthy of me.” And I honestly meant it with all my heart. I even said: “I’d rather date one of our 50-year-old teachers than any girl students in our school.”
Always growing up, I was very honest and quite blunt, and was also never afraid to criticize people out loud. I will say I didn’t name call as much as Trump does, but I did at times if people really annoyed me. And technically I was proud of breaking social norms and not conforming, and to this day I still say as a proud autistic guy: “I absolutely despise social norms, and I refuse to follow them.”
Another proud moment was very recently I actually got let go from my job for not a very good reason. My bosses often had to talk to me about different things a lot (never the same thing more than once) and they were just tired of it. Now I worked in a company where a lot of my colleagues really don’t like our manager and the system, etc, and complain about the rules a lot. I used to to my advantage to tell all my colleagues that I had contact info for exactly what happened and how they treated me terrible, etc. I also got unemployment as well from the government, with the way I argued my case.
Anyways, President Trump has always inspired me, because I feel like ever since he came in the picture, the whole world was against him, but he still got elected as president twice. Yes, many people hate him, but he also has an enormous number of fans that love him like their favorite celebrity.
And I’d say to a lesser extent, I’ve experienced similar things in life, getting a lot of hate from some people, but also having a lot of people that really love me and look up to me a lot.
As an autistic guy who always knew I was different, I kind of went the Trump approach route to life, and really have no regrets so far.
Has anyone else here ever tried this or thought of trying the Donald Trump approach to life, rather than always feeling you must fit in and apologize for being different and having autism? If so, how did it work for you?
I’m a 25-year-old guy very mildly on the spectrum. I was actually diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at 7 years old back when Asperger’s and autism were considered two different things.
Anyways, I’ve heard so many stories about autistic people getting mistreated, bullied, treated unfairly, and treated as lower class, etc. I’m curious if anyone here has tried to approach life in a similar way to President Donald Trump?
Because to be honest, ever since I was very young, I felt like I actually had a very similar personality to Trump and approached life a lot like him in many ways, even way before I knew he existed.
I was always someone that was very proud of my autism and would never let anyone discourage me. I remember back when I was in elementary, middle, and high school, I had people making fun of me for not having many friends or not fitting in, and this is how I responded and I meant it 100%: “There are so many stupid and immature students in school. You know what? I don’t want to fit in their exclusive and terrible cliques, I don’t want their friendship. They’re terrible people. I make friends with more mature people like our teachers and older adults that are friends with my parents, etc.”
I also remember being asked if I liked any girls in high school and my response was: “Nah, there is absolutely no girl here that’s mature enough and worthy of me.” And I honestly meant it with all my heart. I even said: “I’d rather date one of our 50-year-old teachers than any girl students in our school.”
Always growing up, I was very honest and quite blunt, and was also never afraid to criticize people out loud. I will say I didn’t name call as much as Trump does, but I did at times if people really annoyed me. And technically I was proud of breaking social norms and not conforming, and to this day I still say as a proud autistic guy: “I absolutely despise social norms, and I refuse to follow them.”
Another proud moment was very recently I actually got let go from my job for not a very good reason. My bosses often had to talk to me about different things a lot (never the same thing more than once) and they were just tired of it. Now I worked in a company where a lot of my colleagues really don’t like our manager and the system, etc, and complain about the rules a lot. I used to to my advantage to tell all my colleagues that I had contact info for exactly what happened and how they treated me terrible, etc. I also got unemployment as well from the government, with the way I argued my case.
Anyways, President Trump has always inspired me, because I feel like ever since he came in the picture, the whole world was against him, but he still got elected as president twice. Yes, many people hate him, but he also has an enormous number of fans that love him like their favorite celebrity.
And I’d say to a lesser extent, I’ve experienced similar things in life, getting a lot of hate from some people, but also having a lot of people that really love me and look up to me a lot.
As an autistic guy who always knew I was different, I kind of went the Trump approach route to life, and really have no regrets so far.
Has anyone else here ever tried this or thought of trying the Donald Trump approach to life, rather than always feeling you must fit in and apologize for being different and having autism? If so, how did it work for you?
