The Salvage of my Sanity... -
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Child of the Fey
Date: 2010-04-30 14:29
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 This is something that bothers me so I decided I'd rant about it here.

I have family on my mother's side that I can trace back to the second landing at Jamestown. My father's side doesn't go back quite that far, but they do go back to the pre-Revolution. I have family on both sides such that I have relatives that fought in every major American conflict, including both sides of the Civil War. My nearest migrated relatives are seven generations back on both sides. I even have a marginal amount (like 1/152) of native blood in me. So, pray tell, does that not make me a 'native' American? 

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記憶したか?// Bad Person™: DUO Goodluck & Goodbye
User: [info]kiokushitaka
Date: 2010-05-01 00:24 (UTC)
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Keyword:DUO Goodluck & Goodbye

Well you type normally! I have a hard time looking people in the eye when I talk to them... It's just weird really to me. I don't do it the whole time I'm talking usually I divert my attention elsewhere. *shrugs* Monotone on the other hand isn't something I do really but I have friends who speak in monotone so I'm used to it. XD

I pretty much type the way I talk in terms of language.

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Child of the Fey: MamoChuckle
User: [info]bar_ohki
Date: 2010-05-01 00:30 (UTC)
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Keyword:MamoChuckle

One of the reasons I write so much fanfiction is to help myself try and understand normal people better by role playing their actions in a story setting. It's often hard to tell if a written word was done by an autistic person unless something kind of fundamental wasn't adding up.

But in person I can pass as a normal, non-autistic person, just don't ask me to lie (still can't get that right after 21 years of kind of trying). But in typing I don't really have to tell you my tone, my body language, or expect you to do anything but take my words at face value. You have to take typed words at face value because there's no non-verbals for context for hidden meanings.

That's why I type normally.

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記憶したか?// Bad Person™: ASSCRD Ezio prepare to bleed
User: [info]kiokushitaka
Date: 2010-05-01 00:38 (UTC)
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Keyword:ASSCRD Ezio prepare to bleed

That makes sense. Still, I have a feeling if we hung out in real life I wouldn't think you were weird, even if I already know you're autistic. Just because some of the things people in the US consider to be how you're supposed to socialize... I come from a different cultural background, so things change.

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Child of the Fey: SasakuraHappy
User: [info]bar_ohki
Date: 2010-05-01 00:43 (UTC)
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Keyword:SasakuraHappy

Most of my real friends don't. I tend to hang out with alternative, off the norm kinds of people anyways.

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