Interests:Learning is something that I have a great passion for as a result I have a lot of mostly useless information in my head. Expertise:being Mr. C, in other words, I am me and have no real desire to be anything else
I'm getting kind of tired of the talk on Autisable about finding a cure for autism. Fact is, I don't have any desire to be cured and you couldn't pay me enough for me to let you cure me. I rather like the different takes that I have on the world. What I hate is the "normies" who have no respect for anyone with any kind of a different view, and those are the people who I think we need to cure.
I realize that since I am a pretty high-functioning Aspergian that my take on a cure is going to be different than a lot of lower-functioning autistic people and their families. I still believe that those lower-functioning people will have great invaluable insights into the world. We just need to be willing to accept that they have worthwhile insights and maybe teach them to communicate better and then be willing to listen to them.
Now, there have been times in my life when I would have jumped at a cure. The thing about all of these times though is that in each of them, I was doped up on all kinds of medications in an attempt to make me "normal". Those medications always made me extremely miserable. What I wanted a cure for really wasn't the Asperger's but rather it was the misery that was brought on by the meds.
About an hour ago Bozo called me. Had I realized it was him I would not have answered the phone even though that probably would have spawned a continuing sequence of increasingly frequent calls from him. Unfortunately, I don't have his number in my phone so I foolishly answered it.
Apparently, he just wanted to chat about life since he had seen me last Thursday afternoon. I had been leaving a parking lot as he was pulling into it. But seeing as how the place where he works is right between a grocery store and video rental place and the strip they are all in is maybe a half mile from where I live, its kind of amazing that it hadn't happened sooner. Frankly, once I realized it was his car I intentionally avoided looking at his car or him in the hopes that he would realize that I didn't want to see him. I do have to wonder though why he decided to wait this long to call or what made him think I would want to hear from him.
I did learn something new though, apparently he has abandoned his plans from April to quit his job soon and get another similar job or start his own company. He is taking some classes at the junior college I was recently taking classes at because he has decided he wants to be a nurse and needs to take some classes so he can go to nursing school. Honestly, I think he would be a terrible nurse but, I also know that back in December he was obsessed with a girl who is a nurse and did any number of things to try and make her like him and honestly, I can see that as being the motivation behind this decision (it'd greatly surprise me if he wasn't trying to seek approval from someone with this). Anyway, one of the things he asked me was if I was taking any classes at juco still and if I would be in the fall because he thought that carpooling with me would be a great idea.
For someone whose entire life is built around attempts to win the approval of others, Bozo is amazingly blockheaded. Is it really that hard for him to figure out that the way for him to win my approval is to forget that I exist? I've even told him that before and he still can't get it through his thick head.
I was surfing aimlessly on the web and found an ad for a church here in the Kansas City area. Since I was bored, I decided to follow it and check it out. What I learned out seems a little odd to me.
-Their location is in the north-northeast part of the metro area. -They offer directions on their website to people in every part of the metro area. -All five of the staffers pictured on the website have a family resemblance and three share a last name. -Much attention is given to the pastor's family including his wife and three grown children. -They prominently speak of how most of their members came to Christ through them.
I'm not trying to be picky of anything but when you combine those five factors and a few other things that I opted not to mention I am left with a less than favorable opinion of the church.
Why do they need to advertise so extravagantly on the internet (it was not a "Christian" website I saw the ad on)?
Why try so hard to get people from so far away (we're talking a 90 minute drive from one of the places the website gave directions from)?
Is it really a positive that your entire staff is immediate family of the pastor (I don't know for sure but it looks like it)?
Why is it a bragging point that you are predominantly "first generation believers"?
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