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2007-09-24

Asperger's seen as loose cannon on social deck

Asperger's people do well to share wisdoms found about their situation. The social dysfunction we share, along with a need to be socially interactive (unlike true autistics who don't want to interact with others), is a key problem for us. So the realization I now share hopefully will be helpful to other Asperger people.

This hypotheses is that "normal" (= "non-Asperger's" in this context) people are laced into a hierarchical latticework socially, ever striving to "climb the ladder" of that hierarchy, because it simplifies things for them. Their viewpoint of life that seems to involve the incessant determination of "who is better than who and therefore deserves to receive more" becomes much simpler when all they have to focus on is defending against whoever is "under" them in the hierarchy, while also struggling to overcome the one who is immediately above them in the hierarchy, while maybe competing with those lateral in the struggle to get the "higher" next rung position in the social hierarchy. So instead of struggling with a huge number of people, they just deal with just a few, much easier to keep tradk of and devise strategies for those few conflicts, all of which provides expression of their incessant need to vibrate their place in the hierarchical social latticework.

This hypothesis also fits well with the anger non-Asperger's express Asperger people. An Asperger person does not "know their place" and so becomes a maveric person who might be another contender for the non-Asperger's social position, and therfore must be fended off, a nuisance complicating life.

Since the social hierarchy latticework is an invisible thing not even discussed by non-Asperger people as a rule, they cannot express their irritation at what they perceive as Asperger's intrusion into their territory, while the Asperger is simply wandering around in life trying to cope with basics, unaware of all the cages they are rattling along the way. Since the hierarchy is not a publicised thing, complaints cannot be directly lodged against Aspergers for "not keeping their place" (at the very bottom of the hierarchy, of course) some of the non-Aspergers trick the general public's involvement in the harassing of the Asperger people by claiming the Asperger is doing something ugly, like stalking young women, abusing children, or shoplifting, for examples. These are things universally disliked; so the hue and cry of the clever non-Asperger immediately enlists the general public. And the Asperger's awkward social efforts to find a woman as their mate, be friendly to children, and search for what they need to buy in stores, is easily interpreted with the wrongdoing attributes once the public's mind has been directed to think that way.

So, this hypotheses is simply stated that people who have Asperger's and thus do not "know their place" socially, are perceived as wandering nuisances which complicate the hierarchically stratified world on non-Asper people, maybe even sometimes seem as "a loose cannon" on deck; so the general public is enlisted to help corral the Asperger people, united by false claims of ugly wrongdoings by the Asperger people. But the real complaint is actually that the Asperger person complicates their normally elegant strivings related to the few people immediately adjacent to them in their place in the hierarchical latticework.

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