Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

And now I know it is perfectly natural for me not to look at someone when I talk. Those of us with Asperger's are just not comfortable doing it. In fact, I don'treally understand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs.