Welcome to A.S.S.G.O

Our world is rather isolated. The inability to socially interact in an acceptable way can be quite frustrating (well very frustrating if you want to be brutally honest). Every person with Aspergers Syndrome is totally different as is everyone on the autistic spectrum. There are things that are the same for all of us because of our different complex problems. A lot of people who have AS have said that they try hard but something doesn't connect and somehow they end up failing. Relationships are very hard to come by as none of us know how to naturally act around people. I don't know if I'm the only person with AS who feels they have to put an act on to the world because when they try and be themselves it always goes wrong on them. It is tremendously stressful to not be accepted by people, always trying to prove your positive points when the world focus's on Aspergers and the Autistic Spectrum's negative points gets so tiring.

On to the subject bullying. I was bullied at school and know how it feels and that's why I'd like to get this paragraph over with as soon as possible. All of the people with AS that have came here have been bullied in some way, shape or form. That's probably because bullies can pick up on our social vunerability because a lot of us can't pick up people's intentions and wouldn't realise that others could pick up things that's unwritten body language. The bullies also know that if they pretend to be a friend then the person with AS won't get them into trouble for it. This happens at schools so much. I'd advise people with AS to look at their friends behavours more closely and try and figure out their intentions. If anything doesn't feel right end the friendship and don't be taken for a fool or taken the fun out of behind your back.

For neurotypical people the world is a confusing place especially when you're a child or a teenager you are continually learning what life is about. For neurotypical people picking up the way society is socially is quite easy because they seem to be able to just watch others around them while they're growing up and automatically learn them. For people with AS this doesn't come naturally so you can imagine what the world feels like sometimes. If you look around you will see the whole world revolves around social interaction to keep it going and seeing as we don't know social things automatically it makes living life in that type of world so very difficult.

Quite a lot of people with AS are cut off from the world. There are so many who I've heard of from parents who have came to this website that they spend all their time in their bedrooms even taking their dinner up there to eat to avoid parents, family members, siblings and any social contact in general. At the very most some of them have access to the internet and chat on there. That is a far from ideal life though. Bill Gates who designed microsoft has AS. He designed a computer operating system as everyone knows because he's one of the richest men in the world. Maybe that's why Aspergers can link up with computers because their brain is compatible with it and works better with it than it ever has done with people and socializing. Maybe Bill Gates designed microsoft for a reason. Maybe at one point it was his escape from the world. We'll never know that for sure but it's just an idea.