Where Did We Come From?
Well, (humor) some might ask us what planet we came from but, I defer to answer that.
Actually for those understanding Gay and Lesbian and Transgendered and Bisexual Issues they will realize that growing up this way/ is a calling. As such many of us grew up ,had to grow up differently than 'normal' . In our case we grew up in a time an era before Rain Man and Autism were buzzwords and we were doing blind backwards experiments in Autism as was everyone in the autism spectrum at this time (1970's and before) . All of our experiments seemed to be the same except that those of us Gay had a group of close friends. When you were in school and suddenly find your self in in a minority getting bashed you become pretty close those getting bashed alongside of you.
Our Autism that we were unknowingly developing responded really well to the social lessons we were forced to learn. We were even odd among the Gay folks in some respects BUT they cared enough about us to tolerate us and were patient enough with us to help us figure out social things. I personally learned a lot from one of the football team stars (in the closet) that often turned the heat off our small group of 'out gay folks' as he walked by with the team mates. (He came out to us years later after High school. ) In this Era there were no gay clubs in schools and we were on our own. I'm afraid Gay has developed too much these days like autism has , and now being Gay and autistic would not offer an obvious advantage. In fact modern Gay's would probably ignore an Aspie like the typical populations do.
Sadly, It indeed hurts me to say this and I mean no disrespect but the Straight Aspies of our Age range the real world kind of present like the Rain Man stereotype. It seems fewer of them drive hold traditional jobs or blend in as well. I can assure you Autism Researchers are not thrilled to hear about us and are too petrified to even check out our anthropology no matter how good we do. Gay and Aspie just don't mix in some people's eyes. To complicate matters we do pretty well in real life and our Anthropology also unknowingly acts as a reserve of "untouched" Autism. Modern aspies finding us today searching out Autism and Gay (LBT) offer a unique 'plug in' to an autism 'standard' of time gone by.
By the time many of them filter through our GLBT boards on Yahoo it is discovered many don't relate to us at all ,and some do. For those of us that relate we seem to share Picture thoughts of some types, A pain tolerance, super senses ,intolerance for scratchy clothes and a few social quirks that we have mostly overcame. Many meeting us online don't have a clue to what we are about have no picture thought ,or pain tollerance and can wear about anything.
True research in autism would Jump at the chance to observe and study and learn form a living 'untouched' anthropology like ours but sadly they must live in the real world. Their funding sources would be ignorantly slashed if they were investigate us. The actual results might not be appealing either as we don't have to work real hard to prove the obvious,in terms of how we do the traditional world.
In real life If we are not making good money working within our splinter skill somehow, we are possibly working lower end jobs that we usually adapt the best we can to fit our lives. Not many researchers are eager to look up people living on the edge. Perhaps we might come off as the village idiot at times or the Odd person that gets along in our own way. Still we fly under the radar of proper research.
Actually for those understanding Gay and Lesbian and Transgendered and Bisexual Issues they will realize that growing up this way/ is a calling. As such many of us grew up ,had to grow up differently than 'normal' . In our case we grew up in a time an era before Rain Man and Autism were buzzwords and we were doing blind backwards experiments in Autism as was everyone in the autism spectrum at this time (1970's and before) . All of our experiments seemed to be the same except that those of us Gay had a group of close friends. When you were in school and suddenly find your self in in a minority getting bashed you become pretty close those getting bashed alongside of you.
Our Autism that we were unknowingly developing responded really well to the social lessons we were forced to learn. We were even odd among the Gay folks in some respects BUT they cared enough about us to tolerate us and were patient enough with us to help us figure out social things. I personally learned a lot from one of the football team stars (in the closet) that often turned the heat off our small group of 'out gay folks' as he walked by with the team mates. (He came out to us years later after High school. ) In this Era there were no gay clubs in schools and we were on our own. I'm afraid Gay has developed too much these days like autism has , and now being Gay and autistic would not offer an obvious advantage. In fact modern Gay's would probably ignore an Aspie like the typical populations do.
Sadly, It indeed hurts me to say this and I mean no disrespect but the Straight Aspies of our Age range the real world kind of present like the Rain Man stereotype. It seems fewer of them drive hold traditional jobs or blend in as well. I can assure you Autism Researchers are not thrilled to hear about us and are too petrified to even check out our anthropology no matter how good we do. Gay and Aspie just don't mix in some people's eyes. To complicate matters we do pretty well in real life and our Anthropology also unknowingly acts as a reserve of "untouched" Autism. Modern aspies finding us today searching out Autism and Gay (LBT) offer a unique 'plug in' to an autism 'standard' of time gone by.
By the time many of them filter through our GLBT boards on Yahoo it is discovered many don't relate to us at all ,and some do. For those of us that relate we seem to share Picture thoughts of some types, A pain tolerance, super senses ,intolerance for scratchy clothes and a few social quirks that we have mostly overcame. Many meeting us online don't have a clue to what we are about have no picture thought ,or pain tollerance and can wear about anything.
True research in autism would Jump at the chance to observe and study and learn form a living 'untouched' anthropology like ours but sadly they must live in the real world. Their funding sources would be ignorantly slashed if they were investigate us. The actual results might not be appealing either as we don't have to work real hard to prove the obvious,in terms of how we do the traditional world.
In real life If we are not making good money working within our splinter skill somehow, we are possibly working lower end jobs that we usually adapt the best we can to fit our lives. Not many researchers are eager to look up people living on the edge. Perhaps we might come off as the village idiot at times or the Odd person that gets along in our own way. Still we fly under the radar of proper research.
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