How an Aspie Found Happiness in a Neurotypical World

Out in the real world the term Autist is unknown. Instead they use Aspie

https://www.aane.org/aspie-found-happiness-neurotypical-world/

Well, it was not easy to find, it required a phenomenal amount of hard work, and it was not achieved overnight, but I did manage to find it. I know that I’m not the only one with an Asperger’s profile who is happy, so if you are an Aspie and have not yet found happiness, why not join us? I have a few thoughts to share with you if you are considering committing to this endeavor:

First off, I have learned not to think in terms of “there’s me, and then there’s everybody else” or “I’m not neurotypical like they are” and I think instead in terms of “we are all human”. You will notice that I use the word neurotypical a few times in this piece and in its title, but only because I know it is a word with which many people in the Autism Spectrum community are familiar and can understand. However, as you read along, know that I extremely dislike this word because I feel that its use makes it too easy for people to categorize other people as either being “normal” or “not normal”, which I believe is divisive and wrong. Furthermore, it invites the “me vs. everybody else” comparison which I said at the beginning of this paragraph should not be thought about if you want to find true happiness. Society today is rife with too much divisiveness as it is. Why add neurotypical vs. Aspie to the mix? And what is “normal” supposed to mean anyway? There is no clear definition for that word. Instead, embrace who you are, celebrate what makes you special and recognize that everybody everywhere is human despite the differences that exist among us.

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So how did I manage to open my eyes, see the flaws in my attitudes about other people and in my expectations of them, make the changes I needed to make, and become happier? I did so by living my life, learning lessons as I went along, and getting help from family, close friends and clinicians. I discovered that I was better able to improve myself by making gradual progress in many small steps over a long period of time and by learning lessons the hard way, often more than once. Over time, all of these small steps and lessons learned resulted in me acquiring greater awareness of myself and others which in turn enabled me to improve upon many of the aspects of my Aspie profile that I wanted to address, among these, social skills deficits, difficulties making friends, self-absorption, and unrealistic expectations of others. For me, awareness always came first, followed by change for the better. I slowly became stronger, wiser and happier.

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I would not be as happy as I am today had it not dawned on me how critically important it is to be surrounded by good, intelligent people. This type of person can lift you up and help you move forward while the opposite type of person can bring you down and get in the way of your goals if you allow him or her to do so. I have been fortunate enough to have had friends and loved ones who knew me well enough to see the good in me. I have had colleagues in the workplace and teachers who encouraged me to pursue excellence while setting high but realistic standards for me to live up to, and I have benefitted from the wisdom and guidance of many clinicians who helped me develop better social skills and a level of social awareness that eluded me before I started working with them. Not always was I able to avoid undesirable people, as was sometimes the case at school, at summer camp and at the workplace wherein you do not always get to choose who you associate with. In these situations, I simply learned to put up with these people, fight my way through, and not let them get under my skin, mostly by seeing them for who they were.

>>14200480

The hunter-gatherer neurotribe: gifted, geeks, aspies and other aliens in this world

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50272271-the-hunter-gatherer-neurotribe

Based on the Myers-Briggs types indicator this book argues for an evolutionary origin personality traits, in particular of the intuitive trait in hunter-gatherer genes. It explains why gifted, ASD and other people often have the feeling they live on the wrong planet. Having a hunter-gatherer and being born into a farmer society entails a lot of problems.

ASPERGER SYNDROME GROWS UP – RECOGNIZING ADULTS IN TODAY’S CHALLENGING WORLD

https://pathfindersforautism.org/articles/adults-with-autism/asperger-syndrome-grows-up-recognizing-adults-in-todays-challenging-world/

Asperger Syndrome and Telling the Truth

Most challenges of AS adult life have already been covered in the writing above. However, one issue hasn’t been addressed: the issue of AS individuals and how they handle truthfulness.

AS individuals rely heavily on rules, most of which they understand to be immutable. The one thing few of them understand and truly take to heart is that nearly all rules allow for exceptions to be made. In some cases, it may be possible to come up with clear guidelines governing when a given rule doesn’t apply. With their encyclopedic data bases and given enough time to sift their view of a situation using those guidelines, AS individuals can take an almost infinite number of sub-rules and come up with the socially appropriate response.

The operative words in situations like this are “data base” and “given enough time”.

AS children begin early to build their database for determining the correct course of action in difficult situations. They are taught to tell the truth, and they do so willingly and automatically. As noted above, some AS children act as “truth enforcers” uncritically applying their unsophisticated understanding of rules to anyone of any age or authority level.

The Good Side of Telling the Truth

Finding themselves in the midst of a situation that calls for fast footwork — lying — AS children are, at first, notoriously poor liars. If they are verbal and outgoing, they may go around acting as the “truth police”, correcting others on factual details and not even hesitating to call someone — anyone — a liar for their not telling the truth.

It is safe to say, categorically, that the younger an AS child is, the greater the likelihood that he is telling the absolute, unvarnished and complete truth. One cannot say this for non-autistic children of the same age.

Autism may have had advantages in humans' hunter-gatherer past, researcher believes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110603122849.htm

Though people with autism face many challenges because of their condition, they may have been capable hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times, according to a paper published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology in May.

The autism spectrum may represent not disease, but an ancient way of life for a minority of ancestral humans, said Jared Reser, a brain science researcher and doctoral candidate in the USC Psychology Department.

Some of the genes that contribute to autism may have been selected and maintained because they created beneficial behaviors in a solitary environment, amounting to an autism advantage, Reser said.

The "autism advantage," a relatively new perspective, contends that sometimes autism has compensating benefits, including increased abilities for spatial intelligence, concentration and memory. Although individuals with autism have trouble with social cognition, their other cognitive abilities are sometimes largely intact.

The paper looks at how autism's strengths may have played a role in evolution. Individuals on the autism spectrum would have had the mental tools to be self-sufficient foragers in environments marked by diminished social contact, Reser said.

The penchant for obsessive, repetitive activities would have been focused by hunger and thirst towards the learning and refinement of hunting and gathering skills.

Today autistic children are fed by their parents so hunger does not guide their interests and activities. Because they can obtain food free of effort, their interests are redirected toward nonsocial activities, such as stacking blocks, flipping light switches or collecting bottle tops, Reser said.

Journal Abstract of full article is here

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22947969/

Elon Musk Just Revealed He Has Asperger's. Here's How It Makes Him Different

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/elon-musk-aspergers-snl-saturday-night-live-monologue.html

Elon Musk announced during his monologue on Saturday Night Live that he has Asperger's, a mild form of autism. It's a condition thatobviouslydoes not limit his intelligence, creativity, or his ability to change history. But it may help explain some of his interactions with others, and some of the problems he's run into over the years.

What does it really mean that Musk has Asperger's, or autism spectrum disorder, as many prefer to call it? Here are some answers.

1. People with Asperger's are so much like everyone else, they may not know they have it.

"I'm actually making history tonight as the first person with Asperger's to host SNL–or at least the first to admit it," he said toward the beginning of his monologue. That wasn't quite true. Several people pointed out on Twitter that former SNL cast member and host Dan Aykroyd has publicly said he has Asperger's.

The fact that one of the two richest people in the world and one of Hollywood's biggest stars both say they have Asperger's should tell you that "Aspies" can be highly intelligent and successful. The movie star Daryl Hannah and the singer Susan Boyle have revealed they have the condition as well.

Because people with Asperger's are high-functioning, it may be difficult for them or others to recognize that there's anything different about them, beyond some eccentricity. "To the untrained observer, a child with Asperger's may just seem like a neurotypical child behaving differently," the Autism Society notes on its website. People with Asperger's may not realize themselves that they're different from their neurotypical peers.

Back in the 1930s some people had a plan…

Weaponized Influenza

They figured that if they warned us about it

And we did nothing

Then we would be responsible for our own deaths

Not them!!!

That way they don't collect any Karma for their actions.

Somehow I thinkGod's accounting department

Has ways of tracking responsibility through the most devious karma-laundering so that the payback can go to the right souls.

How To Take Over The World

Introduce A Weaponised Influenza

Flood Newspapers And Radio With Death

Shut Down Shops And Churches

Use Law Enforcement To Stifle Dissent

Parade The Sick And Dead

Inject A Vaccine To Sterilise The Workshy

And Euthanize The Old

The People Who Own The Banks

Now Own The Hospitals

This Is Their Plan

To Own

you

Remember to put your mask on

Whenever you leave the house

Remember to put your mask on

It's what the law allows

Remember to put your mask on

Whenever you go outside

Remember to put your mask on

Lord knows we tried…

>>14200510

Some people claim this is from 1930

But I think 1936 is more likely

Others say that "weaponised" dates it to the 1950s

As if people were too dumb 20 years earlier

To make up a obvious word applying regular rules

The overall tone seems like a political campaign

And in 1936 FDR was running for a 2nd term

There was a massive Negro rally

In Madison Square Gardens Sept 22 1936

And Cab Calloway and his band played there

The music in this video is Cab Calloway's

St. James Infirmary Blues

And he is the singing voice

At the time he lived and played in New York

Max Fleischer, the animator of Betty Boop

Popeye and Koko the Clown

Had his studios in New York until 1938

The singing radio looks like a 1934 model

From the big manufacturer Atwater Kent

Although the grille design may originally come

From a small New York manufacturer

Because of the 3 dials, more common on Sears radios

The banner saying Early Warning Cartoon

Is very similar to Betty Boop's opening screen

The fellow being beaten by two cops

Is similar to Bimbo

The vague character outlines are reminiscent

Of characters from Betty Boop and Popeye

So this is almost certainly a Fleischer/Calloway production.

But that radio grille design…

Why did a large manufacturer adopt it?

Why do so many retro makers use that design?

Why does it look like a skull with 6 teeth?

What group uses 6 or 66 or 666 and skulls

As their calling card?

Even Darth Vader's mask has 6 teeth and 5 slots

To fully deal with "weaponised" you would need to search periodicals

From the 1920s and 1930s

The only ones I know of cost money to access

The same thing is true for corpora of English language usage

You have to register, and I assume pay, to search them.

New York Life Insurance Company first opened in Manhattan's Financial District as Nautilus Mutual Life in 1841, 10 years after the first life insurance charter was granted in the United States.[8][9] Originally chartered in 1841, the company also sold fire and marine insurance.[10] The company's first president, James De Peyster Ogden, was appointed in 1845.[11] Nautilus renamed itself New York Life Insurance Company in 1845 to concentrate on its life insurance business.[8][10]

In its early years (1846–1848)the company, along with other insurance companies of the day including Aetna and US Life, insured the lives of slaves for their owners. By 1847 these accounted for one‑third of New York Life's policies.[8] The board of trustees voted to end the sale of insurance policies on slaves in 1848.[8] The company also sold policies to soldiers and civilians involved in combat during the American Civil War and paid claims under a flag of truce during that time.[12][13] In the late 1800s, the company began employing female agents.[14]

New York Life continued to grow throughout its first 100 years as the national population and the market for life insurance increased.[15] New York Life's growth was in part fueled by its introduction of a system by which the company used agents to find new business.[15] In 1892, company President John A. McCall introduced the branch office system: offices that served as liaisons between New York and field agents.[15]

In 1894, the company became the first US-based insurance provider to offer life insurance to women at the same cost as men; social reformer Susan B. Anthony was one of the company's first female policyholders.[16] In 1896, New York Life became the first company to insure people with disabilities or in hazardous occupations.[16]

AIG was founded December 19, 1919[1] whenAmerican Cornelius Vander Starr (1892-1968) established a general insurance agency, American Asiatic Underwriters (AAU), in Shanghai, China.[15] Business grew rapidly, and two years later, Starr formed a life insurance operation.[16] By the late 1920s, AAU had branches throughout China and Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia.[17] In 1926, Starr opened his first office in the United States, American International Underwriters Corporation (AIU).[18] He also focused on opportunities in Latin America and, in the late 1930s, AIU entered Havana, Cuba.[19] The steady growth of the Latin American agencies proved significant as it would offset the decline in business from Asia due to the impending World War II.[15] In 1939, Starr moved his headquarters from Shanghai, China, to New York City.[20][21]

Is he one of the ancestors of Stephen King, writer of SCARE novels?

When I see him sitting with the director ofMadame ButterflyI wonder whether Monarch Mind Control was being done that long ago.

The Secret (Insurance) Agent Men

https://archive.is/JK45n#selection-2057.9-2070.0

They knew which factories to burn, which bridges to blow up, which cargo ships could be sunk in good conscience. They had pothole counts for roads used for invasion and head counts for city blocks marked for incineration.

They weren’t just secret agents. They were secret insurance agents. These undercover underwriters gave their World War II spymasters access to a global industry that both bankrolled and, ultimately, helped bring down Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Newly declassified U.S. intelligence files tell the remarkable story of the ultra-secret Insurance Intelligence Unit, a component of the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the CIA, and its elite counterintelligence branch X-2.

Though rarely numbering more than a half dozen agents, the unit gathered intelligence on the enemy’s insurance industry, Nazi insurance titans and suspected collaborators in the insurance business. But, more significantly, the unit mined standard insurance records for blueprints of bomb plants, timetables of tide changes and thousands of other details about targets, from a brewery in Bangkok to a candy company in Bergedorf.

“They used insurance information as a weapon of war,” said Greg Bradsher, a historian and National Archives expert on the declassified records.

That insurance information was critical to Allied strategists, who were seeking to cripple the enemy’s industrial base and batter morale by burning cities.

“Within a few days, a conference on the burning possibilities of some important cities will be held,” unit chief Robert “Lucky Luke” Rushin wrote a colleague in February 1944, when he was sending data to an Allied bombing-target committee. “I have reproductions of approximately 150 plans covering Jap plants about ready to ride.”

The files, at the National Archives office in College Park, are among the latest U.S. intelligence documents ordered declassified by President Clinton last year to speed the identification of Nazi assets.

Most of the research attention there has focused on what U.S. intelligence knew about the Holocaust, the whereabouts of Nazi loot, the migration of Nazi war criminals and how much important information never made it to the Oval Office.

But the documents suggest that insurance played an important, if less-noticed, role in the war.

‘America’s War on Drugs’: Inside New Miniseries Exposing Hypocrisy of U.S. Drug Policy

New four-part docuseries dives into links between CIA, DEA and military, providing “secret history of the past 50 years.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/americas-war-on-drugs-inside-new-miniseries-exposing-hypocrisy-of-u-s-drug-policy-197338/

There’s a great moment in the new History channel miniseries, America’s War on Drugs, when a former DEA agent named Celerino Castillo explains why America’s crusade to purge drugs from the world is doomed to fail: “America is more addicted to drug money than they are addicted to drugs.”

After risking his life going undercover in the 1980s, Castillo had been disillusioned – quite a few different times – to discover that the CIA couldn’t care less about stemming the flow of cocaine from Latin America. In fact, the agency ignored the Contras’ drug smuggling. The cocaine moved by the guerrillas made its way to America’s inner cities as crack, fueling an epidemic of addiction and mass incarceration that has helped make America the number one jailer in the world.When San Jose Mercury reporter Gary Webb broke that story, he was maligned as a conspiracy theorist and fired. Webb eventually killed himself.

Unearthing these kinds of dizzying links in the global drug trade is the driving force behind the eight-hour, four-night event, which premieres this Sunday, June 18th. Using historic footage, dramatic re-enactments and interviews with a cast of fascinating characters – including former CIA and DEA agents, drug traffickers and gang members – the series makes the case that the drug trade has always been entwined in America’s military adventures: all the way from the CIA’s secret experiments with LSD in the early Cold War, to opium production in Afghanistan during the War on Terror. “We really wanted to do an epic look at the secret history of the war on drugs in America and tell this much bigger story,” says Anthony Lappé, who produced the four-part series along with Julian Hobbs and Elli Hakami . “It’s almost like the secret history of the last 50 years.”

Black 9/11: A Walk on the Dark Side (Part 3)

Part 3: AIG and the Linkage to the Drug Trade

links to Part 1 and Part 2 in the article here…

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/25/black-911-a-walk-on-the-dark-side-part-3/view-all/

The more one studies the dark history of the US national security state, the more transparent the CIA – Wall Street connections become. The links to the international drug trade are less obvious, but have existed from the beginning, that is, from the days of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Time and again, the same pattern has played out: US military interventions in Southeast Asia, Central America and, since 2001, Afghanistan and Iraq, have been accompanied by a sharp increase in narco-trafficking, with all of the attendant evils. These include the plague of drug addiction, drug-related crime, the devastation of the family and as I hope to show, the corrupting of democratic institutions at home and abroad.

The morally bankrupt policies that are responsible for all of the above have had another deleterious effect: They have crippled our nation’s capacity to play a positive role on the world stage. It is no wonder that foreigners no longer view the United States with admiration and respect, but increasingly with fear and loathing. But US elites are oblivious to such concerns. They do not care, and are quite candid about what they view as the CIA’s pragmatic “need” to associate with unsavory individuals and criminals in the interest of furthering US foreign policy goals. Their realpolitik can be read between the lines of the policy papers. Take, for instance, the 1996 intelligence report, already noted, prepared by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and for which Greenberg was nominated to replace John Deutch as director of the CIA. In the paper Greenberg affirms that “the capability to undertake [covert operations]….constitutes an important national security tool.” Later, in the section titled “Intelligence and Law Enforcement” he insists that

foreign policy ought to take precedence over law enforcement when it comes to overseas operations. The bulk of U.S. intelligence efforts overseas is devoted to traditional national security concerns; as a result, law enforcement must ordinarily be a secondary concern. FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents operating abroad should not be allowed to act independently of either the ambassador or the CIA lest pursuit of evidence or individuals for prosecution cause major foreign policy problems or complicate ongoing intelligence and diplomatic activities.

This means, over and above diplomacy, that when criminals are judged to be intelligence assets, they are granted protection from prosecution for narco-trafficking, money laundering, extortion, rape, even terrorism and murder. In 1982, the CIA and the US Department of Justice actually worked out a secret agreement to this effect.[1]

>>14200930

A series of articles by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News from the 90s have virtually been wiped off the web.

Here is a 16 page PDF with those articles and however short they were, they were explosive enough to get the journalist fired and later suicided.

We need to bone up on facts because it looks like the damn is about to break. When people see this kind of info, they often react by saying that the connections must just be aCOINCIDENCE. However if you have enough facts to show that the connection happens again and again, and that multiple independent investigators have reached the same conclusion, then it is beyond being COINCIDENCE or THEORY.

I believe it is best to ignore the most well-known names because they have all kinds of diversionary stories ready for them. It is better to use material like this because it focuses on organizations and less on personalities. And when names are mentioned, they are usually dead, but that very fact hammers home how well planned these crimes were and how embedded in the system.