The Middle Ground

The middle is very unique place to be. You can relate to everyone and yet you can never truly relate to anyone. The reason for this middle ground talk is, I was bored today and took this survey.

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

My Results:
Your Aspie score: 95 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 96 of 200
You are both Aspie and neurotypical

Since I haven't taken any psychology class, I had no clue what these terms meant before I took the quiz. After the quiz I decided to look the terms up on Wiki.

Neurotypical -- Usually abbreviated NT. Refers to a person who is not on the autistic spectrum, although the technical meaning of the word is a bit ambiguous.

Aspie -- A short-hand way to refer to a person with Asperger syndrome. First used and then made popular by Asperger syndrome author Liane Holliday Willey. Some people use it to refer to those on the whole autism spectrum rather than just those with Asperger's, even though there are differences between AS and other types of autism, such as language delays. There is controversy about whether or not the differences between autism and AS are significant enough to be considered separate conditions. Autistic people tend to appreciate mathematics, science, science fiction, music, and computers, so these are common areas of interest in the autistic culture. There is also a focus on anthropology, based on the common autistic experience of living among beings (non-autistic humans) that have radically unfamiliar thought patterns and a correspondingly strange culture. Many autistic people describe a feeling that they are aliens or that they understand what an alien must feel like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_culture

The results show that I am both Aspie and Neurotypical. The problem with this is that Aspie people and Neurotypical people don't understand each other. An example of this is I am very into playing and watching sports. People who like sports tend to be very social and so I am very social at times. Then I go through periods were I just feel very antisocial and become very quiet. This tends to scare the social people. So, groups of people that one time were your friends, now just push you away. In the end you find the middle to be a very lonely place.


Music: Jimmy Eat World-The Middle