More about Aspergers

"You've always got to be different". That's what my parents used to say to me when I tried to say what I thought. We used to live in a sort of socialist republic where everyone had to have the same, equally. Well I suppose I was different. I used to like my 'classical' music, encyclopaedias, flowers and stamp collection, instead of the football, television and pop music that everyone else liked. I still feel that I am different to most of the people I encounter. I don't mean that I am better or superior to them, it's just that my way of thinking is different. I feel that the way I think can be a barrier between me and others. I often think that I've completely broken down that barrier, but sometimes it completely rebuilds itself again. I wonder from time to time if life would be better if I lived in relative seclusion.