Michio Kaku Does Not Have Aspergers

I am getting too many people coming here to find our if Michio Kaku has Aspergers. I’ve met Professor Kaku and have personally spoken to him one on one. He shows no signs of having Aspergers nor did I ever think about Michio Kaku and Aspergers until I started getting people coming to my blog wanting to know if Michio Kaku has Aspergers. I can honestly say Michio Kaku does not have Aspergers. I am not a doctor nor am I him, but he doesn’t act one bit aspie or show any aspie traits.

Who is Professor Kaku?

Professor Kaku is a mathematical genius who is a theoretical physicist. He is simply a genius, but a very kind and humble one. I hope that clears up all of the confusion about Professor Kaku.

Battleship Movie Not Aspergers Friendly!

Do not, I repeat do not see the new movie BattleShip if you have Aspergers. Aspergers ayndrome and other people on the autistic spectrum can hear frequencies that most can’t. The movie Battle Ship uses a frequency that is used In dog whistles, whixh we can hear just fine. Battle Ship is a great movie, that is until you are in tears from the pain of the sound from the movie.

Movies in the 1930′s used this high pitched sound, similar to a Dog whistle when something was supposed to be scary. This frequency has been removed from all modern movies, except for Battle Ship. If you hear dog whistles, then this sound will mess with your head, scramble your mind, and make you cry in pain. Do not go see the movie Battle ship, if you are on the autism spectrum.

The theatre I go to has never seen me cry from severe pain caused by sound. The theatre has a strict “no cash back” rule, instead they give you a ticket good for one movie, if you dislike the movie . you also only have 45 minutes to get the refund. They decided to not enforce those rules today. I guess they’d never seen an adult cry from sound frequencies and be in extreme pain. I got through an hour of the movie before I was crying. The extreme onslaught of sound started after 50 minutes of the film. It is not pleasant to have your mind tortured by sound frequencies that don’t affect anyone else. It actually drives you a bit nuts.

If you want to see the movie BattleShip, wait till it comes out on DVD. That way you can control the sound and mute it if needed.

Have you ever had a similar experience with a movie? Let us know in the comments.

Aspergers Syndrome: Friends Are Optional

Making friends with Aspergers Syndrome seems hard, but it isn’t as hard as it seems. There is something else that you as a “normal” parent wouldn’t think of.

You’re probably thinking “why doesn’t my kid have friends? Sure my kid has Aspergers, but everyone can make friends.”

You are right, everyone can have friends, but friends are quite the pain… Well, not all friends, but I’ll explain what I mean further on. Anyways, “friends” are quite a pain, they’re like the toy from the 2000′s called “furby”. Friends are always trying to take up your time with stupid, moronic stuff that you could care less about. They seem to need attention to survive…. I had a psychiatrist who was learning about Aspergers from me say that most people crave friends, because they need to project their problems onto them.

Some people with Aspergers, if not all of us wouldn’t mind having a real friend, not a furby friend or the type of friend that psychiatrist referenced, but an actual friend. What is the difference? An actual friend has the same obsession as you, sorry I mean focus. There really isn’t that big of a difference between obsessions and being focused on one area where you are really smart.

I digressed. A real friend is very similar to you or doesn’t mind taking turns going on about each others focus. Let’s face it, focus is another way to say obsessions. A real friend won’t answer the phone if they don’t want to talk. A real friend will be blunt and tell you the full truth and nothing but the truth. A real friend Doesn’t mind if you get busy with your obsession for a week or two. That’s a real friend. Not a furby friend, or someone who Velcro’s onto you and wont let you be, nope those aren’t real friends. A saying my sibling came up with a long time ago is ” I have a lot of friends, I just don’t like any of them.”

That has to be the most honest and truthful saying about friends when you have Aspergers syndrome. I was very popular in high school, I was always in a swarm of cheerleaders at a dance. My sibling says to find me
They just had to look for the swarm of cheerleaders and I was always in the middle of it all. I was the center of attention and not in a bad way! I didn’t get the social cues these girls were throwing left and right, what with flipping their hair, giggling at nothing in particular, etc. I guess I was “hard to get” in their minds, but in reality I didn’t get that they liked me, because they never said so.

At lunch You could always find me either (A starting a new fad that everyone would follow and do exactly do what I did. (B you could find me with any crowd that existed. Whether that was band or the jocks, I was welcomed. (C you could find me in a classroom with a teacher eating his lunch, while we played some geeky game like dungeons and dragons or I’d be alone fixing the school computers, because I like them better than people and the teachers had no idea what I was doing so they left.

How does that have to do with having friends? Look at the cheerleaders, jocks, everyone else who wanted to hang with me, yet I chose isolation. Why? Because they weren’t friends, they were furby people. I did hang out with one group at school the most. We were the outcasts, well, everyone but myself was an outcast. We didn’t fit in with any group, so we had our own group. The outcasts were real friends. If you’re an outcast, it is because you don’t fit the status quo. I’m not sure how I was able to and still am able to go back and forth between those types of crowds, but I do it without thinking.

So how do you make a friend? Simple, don’t look for a friend or you’ll just find a bunch of annoying furbys.

I hope this was helpful! I know there was a lot of references to my life, but that’s the only way I know how to explain what a friend is and what a friend isn’t.

Being Bullied Because Of Autism / Aspergers

Okay, I am writing this because I am ticked off. When someone who is deemed normal bullies people with autism and Aspergers, well that’s not normal, that’s cruel. Bullying is quite bad and cyber-bullying can be even worse since you can’t see your foe.

Why am I ticked off? Because a search query that lead someone to my site was”death to someone with Aspergers”, not cool!!! A lot of queries my blog receives have to do with people with autism and Aspergers not feeling pain. Some people want to know how we don’t feel pain. While i have written many articles on this myth, I will reiterate.We do feel pain, that’s why cyber-bullying and real life bullying is so painful. We may not show our pain, because We are able to cloak our emotions for a little while, so it seems like we aren’t in pain or are incapable of feeling emotions, but we always reach a boiling point. It’s not fun for anyone when we go into a meltdown due to being bullied.

My message to people who want to bully people with Aspergers is an intellectual one. Instead of bullying us, learn about us. If you don’t want to learn about us and Aspergers syndrome , then leave us alone. We like being left alone.

Sorry about this rant, I am just trying to let invisible trolls know that i dont tolerate their behavior.

Again, I apologize that this post isn’t helpful to the Asperger, autism, and PDD NOS community. The next post will be helpful, at least I will mean for it to be helpful.

Girls With Autism Have Flat A-fect

Okay, so girls who have autism, PDD NOS, HFA, Aspergers, etc. have flat a-fect a lot more than boys with Autism. I am not sure why, but they do. Not all Girls with Autism have flat A-fect, but the majority do. This is purely from what I’ve seen, so this isn’t scientific fact.

Why is this? Well, one theory I just came up with is that the hormones and biology between Boys and Girls are very different. Flat A-fect could affect girls more than boys due to autism and hormones, but that’s just an unproven theory. More of an idea. People with flat A-fect do show plenty of emotion in their voice, but it is harder to hear, unless you are used to people with flat a-fect. Anyways, this is just what I’ve seen, maybe i am incorrect. Maybe I am not.

How Do You Feel About Having Aspergers?

I have been asked “how do you feel about having Aspergers?” one too many times, so now I am writing a blog post on how I feel about having Aspergers Syndrome( I actually have P.D.D NOS).

When you were born you had two ears and unless something devestatimg happened to you, you still have two ears. You probably never think about having two ears or how that makes you feel, because it is just two parts of your external characteristics that make up your entire body that people can see without x-rays.

Having Aspergers / P.D.D NOS is just like having two ears. It is part of your essence, your core. Yes, I realize that I do not have the abilities to interpret facial expressions, inflections of tone, movement of the eyes, change in breath patterns, etc., because of my P.D.D NOS. How does that make me feel? That makes me feel normal. Let me rephrase that, It is normal for me and my friends not to understand such bizarre rituals. People who are “normal” always say to “use your words”, yet they do their best to not use theirs and hope that people interpret their cryptic expressions correctly.

So how does having Aspergers make me feel? I don’t feel anymore different than I did yesterday, a year ago, 15 years ago, because I am who I am. People who don’t like who they are need to realize that the saying “the only person you can change is yourself” only goes so far. You can change your attitude, you can learn about cryptic expressions and odd human rituals, but you can’t change who you actually are.

Some could argue that plastic surgery changes who you are, which is true to an extent. It changes your physical appearance, but it doesn’t change the way your mind is wired. While people are working towards a “cure” for Aspergers, well, they’re wasting their time. People with Aspergers are the ones who usually end up being geniuses and own a successful empire. People who are normal work for those with Aspergers, wishing they could figure out how their boss succeeded, so they can copy it.

So how do I feel about having Aspergers? I feel just fine!

Aspergers Syndrome And Being Socially Appropiate

Wow, this is a doozy. Being socially Appropiate with Aspergers. What the heck is considered socially Appropiate? After a lot of work, research, searching what it might be with friends, etc. I’ve achieved an odd level of socially Appropiate. I can kinda pull it off for a little while when I am around new people, but the way I am isn’t stereotypical socially Appropiate. I used to love to “toy” with telemarketers. I got in trouble with my mom for that, because they’re just doing their job. My new approach may baffle telemarketers even more so than my old approach. I tell them all about their product in ten seconds and what product is better then theirs. I then tell them that “I am sorry, but I can’t help answer your questions. I wish you the best of luck calling people and getting the right answers for your job.” i am greeted with complete silence on the other end of the line, so I just say in a very cheerful voice “BYE!”. I hung up and my Mom informed me that wasn’t rude or mean, but it wasn’t the normal way people talk to telemarketers. Yeah, that telemarketer was very confused. I am able to tell you all about environmental stuff that doesn’t use gas, so when you call me saying you have something that makes the air cleaner, well, I am going to tell you a better product.

Telemarketers are just one area of appropriateness, you are supposed to be appropriate with everyone. That is currently impossible to reach. I am myself. I try to be appropriate, but telling someone how many gray hairs they have or counting people’s wrinkles out loud isn’t appropriate. I am improving a lot in those areas!!!! I still have trouble telling when someone is being mean or what a joke is. This lady was really mean and nasty in my opinion, but I’ve been informed that I didn’t get a social cue. Some lady almost crushed our groceries with hers and said something like “oh, that’s funny” and made an odd laugh.. Not a haha laugh or a sad laugh, an odd laugh. I replied with my literal mind and a frown on my face and told her “no, its not.” the lady got quite upset and stormed away from me to the other side of the cash register and loaded her groceries without saying a word. I wasn’t quite, I was upset that she thought it was so funny that she almost destroyed our groceries. Apparently by saying it was funny and the odd laugh, was sometype of odd apology ritual. The lady apparently felt bad, but didn’t want to just say “I almost destroyed all your food. Sorry.”……….. Okay…… Whatever. There are so many freaking social cues and Appropiate behaviors that it gets highly complex!!!!!!!!! I’ve been told not to talk about politics, because that makes people mad. I don’t care if they get mad, I love a good debate and if the other person is so narrow minded that they can’t even debate their views against mine, well, no wonder we have some senators that we have. You’re not supposed to talk religion either. I talk religion when I deem it is Appropiate. I love correcting one of my friends who is an athiest and sometimes doesnt take the time to read the bible, so said person uses it out of context. Once they said something like “Adam And Eve were never married, so why should gay marriage be illegal?” I am not against gay marriage, I am about equal rights. I have a friend who is gay and friends whose brothers are gay, heck being gay is just caused by a change in a gland and the hemispheres in the mind. Anyways, when my friend posted this incorrect statement, I pointed her to the correct area where she could find out that Adam and eve were married. That probably wasn’t appropriate to correct a friend on a social network, but they posted the statement so I thought it was logical to correct their illogic logic.

My point is, no I am not your normal social Appropiate person, but I am not an Internet troll and I love a good debate. Debating is arguing that has a point to it. No one with Aspergers or PDD-NOS is “normal” and that’s great!!! I feel really bad for people who are normal. They’re trapped inside some type of box…. It is apparently a metaphor, but I don’t even think outside this box, I think so differently that I’ve never even seen the box!!! I hope you’re not in the box, because upon investigation those who think inside this box are the most miserable people when it comes to work. I haven’t heard of anyone escaping the box, but there is always a first!!

Does anyone else relate to anything I said? Or does it just seem like a rant? It isn’t a rant. I am just explaining odd things that happen that have to do with social cues and how people think so narrowly and how narrow thinking isn’t logical.

Are Asperger Syndrome People Actually Star Children?

Okay, I am writing this because I am sick of the question “so Aspergers means you’re a star child, right?”. While I’ve never been asked that in real life, I’ve seen it all over the Internet. Asperger syndrome and star children are two different things. One is real and the other is science fiction. If you aren’t bright enough to figure out which one is real, it’s Aspergers not star children. So, what is a star child? It is supposedly a kid who has one human parent and one alien parent. I’ve read about alien abduction theories, etc. while its funny fiction, that’s all it is! Stop saying that people who are Autistic are star children!!!! Thanks! I hope you enjoyed my rant.

Aspergers Syndrome, Easter, Costumes, Oh My!!

It’s Easter time and costumes are running amuck. Costumes of giant rabbits sitting with children. If your kid has Aspergers I’d advise against taking them to see a six foot tall rabbit that holds them. They have no idea what that easter rabbit will do, especially because they believe that the easter bunny is real!! People with Aspergers Syndrome are usually scared of costumes to the point that they’ll run away screaming in terror.

I have P.D.D NOS and I don’t have this fear. I am actually the total opposite. I am in costume all the time. You can open my closet and see skeleton costumes, werewolf masks, togas, etc. this is partially due to the fact that I am an actor and that I love the alter ego feeling you get while being in costume & acting out a totally different life. it also teaches you social skills, but that’s for another blog post.

I digressed. Most people with Aspergers are scared of costumes because you can’t see the persons face. You have no idea who is behind the mask, it could be your best friend or someone from the most wanted criminal list. This fear seems illogical to most, but since you don’t know whose behind the mask, well it is a totally logical fear.

One person I know is so afraid of costumes that it is quite dangerous to expose them to theme parks during Halloween or anytime of year, that is if you don’t want them to almost pull your arm out of its socket.

Another person I know loves costumes except for people who are wearing clown masks or makeup. Heck, I fell in love with acting when I was wearing clown makeup and a clown costume. I was on the bottom of the human pyramid, but I loved it. I got to do plenty of other stuff, the human pyramid is just quite memorable.

Sure, this was just a school circus that we worked on for months with professional circus performers, but that is what made me love costumes instead of fearing them. I am not sure if I was ever afraid of costumes, but if I was this experience desensitized me of this fear. The only logical way to get over a fear is to expose yourself to it, that is if it isn’t something potentially dangerous and or potentially harmful.

How do you feel about costumes? Are you scared of them? Or do you love them and have a ton of costumes in your closet along with your Ben NYE costume makeup kit for theatre and videos you make? Let me know in the comments. I love reading what my viewers have to say.

Do People With Aspergers Syndrome Feel Pain?

Do people with Aspergers Syndrome feel pain? yes, of course we feel pain! People with Autism, PDD NOS, HFA, and Aspergers all feel pain. We may deal with pain very differently than those who aren’t autistic. Our reactions may seem like we don’t feel pain, but that can be for several reasons. I have a friend who if gets hurt, doesn’t scream instead sits in absolute silence for a minute and then shows the emotion of pain. If you knew my friend and all of my friends facial expressions or breathing patterns, well you know they’re in pain, they just don’t express it the way neurotypicals do. Something’s that do not result in discomfort for people without Aspergers, hurts us very badly. Dog whistles are a very good example. I can’t say that everyone on the autistic spectrum hears dog whistles, but I know I do & I know that my small study on 15 of my friends and acquaintances with Aspergers showed that they hear dog whistles and they don’t like the sound. I was going for a walk with a neighbor when they did what I guess could be considered the inevitable in this day and age. They blew a dog whistle. I started yelling in pain and putting my hands over my ears, while the dog quickly ran over to its owner. This wasn’t even one of the silent dog whistles, those hurt the worst. Silent dog whistles are silent in the sense of noise that most people are used to, but the vibrations you hear are so painful!! So, yes we feel pain. I would like ro conclude this post by saying that some people can withstand things that others would think are painful, but this is common in both the Neurotypical world and the non-neurotypical world.