An Aspie's Life: The Untold and Unknown Story

A Letter to All the Aspies

Now it’s time for all you Aspies out there. Whether you think you might have it, whether you’ve just been diagnosed with it, or whether you’ve had it for years. This letter is for you.

Disorder is such an ugly word. It makes it sound like there’s something seriously messed up or wrong with you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you or your mind. Don’t let any ever tell you that you can’t or that you aren’t capable. You are just as capable at being as amazing as before your diagnosis. The only difference now is that people would be surprised if you did something amazing with your life.

I say go out there and dazzle them. Prove to them that your diagnosis doesn’t define who you are. Prove that you can do so many things with your life. Just because you have to take it slower or do them differently doesn’t make you stupid or less of a person. You are a valuable and vital person. The rest of the world is simply blind to anyone that they don’t believe is perfect in their eyes.

Know this, no one is perfect. So don’t measure your progress by others. You can’t ever do anything exactly the way everyone else claims they do it. You have to make your own path and it will lead you to places that other people never get the chance to see because they can’t see through your eyes.

The world before you is full of color and possibilities that only you can see. You are the future of vision. The things you create will be unlike anything else before it and will be utterly unique to you and you alone. Don’t be afraid to let the world see the amazing things you can do and that you can see.

You may have your ups and downs. You may have days that you will feel like giving it all up. Because how could it be possible for someone like you to ever make a difference in this world? That’s for those people who are more intelligent, more beautiful, and more powerful than you. Right? Wrong. The person you are is more intelligent, more beautiful, and more powerful because you have to earn it everyday. You have to fight for what you want and to make it through the day. It takes effort, courage, determination, and hope. Those things that people toss away everyday. Those things you have to embody.

It will set you apart from others. People will finally see you as someone they didn’t expect. Some people will try to tear you down. They will say you couldn’t possibly do anything. They will believe you can only be the type of person to be left behind that everyone else has to take care of in their old age. That you are unable to be like everyone else. That last part is true. You aren’t like everyone else. And why would you want to be?

Maybe the reason you think the way you do is because you use more and different parts of your mind than the rest of world. You see what others miss. You are open to everything around you in a way others aren’t. They are closed off to the world but you can see all the possibilities around you. The only thing you would lack is the ability to voice what you do see. It’s your voice that you have to find for yourself. Find the way that you can let people know who you are and the great things you can see. Because that’s the only reason they can’t understand why this isn’t a disorder but a blessing.

Without this “disorder” there might have been some people that faded into obscurity. Those people that without the fear of talking in front of crowds, without the seemingly narrowed minded focus, and the outside the box thinking that would have never created some of the most important inventions, tools, and forms of entertainment that we know, love, and depend upon today. What people are those? Well, some of the people speculated to have Asperger’s Syndrome are those like Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Emily Dickinson, George Washington, Beethoven, Thomas Edison, Van Gogh, and Mozart. Need some more modern references? How about Marilyn Monroe, Adam Young who founded the electronic project called Owl City, Daryl Hannah, James Durbin who was a finalist on American Idol™, and of course, Satoshi Tajiri who was the creator and designer of Pokémon™?