Runtu
I have it, too (it's often hereditary), though not nearly as severe as my son.
I'm fairly well acquainted with Aspergers.
So, yes, I have the same tendency to say things are make sense to me but not to others and to misunderstand what other people say.
Then you can relate to what I suggested.
Yes, this is an intensely personal subject for me, and it bugs the hell out of me when people say there is some sort of moral code that means gay people must resist temptation and forgo real intimacy in this life (I know, it wasn't TAO who said that).
That TAO didn't say it, was the point I tried to make with you. There are just a few topics that when they come up on a board, I avoid them because they touch on issues that I repond to with perhaps too much sensitively and I know that I won't be able to maintain objectivity unless I go into a more professional/detached mode...and sometimes I do. Hint: When you see me double spacing a post, that's typically me fending off a reaction and mentally pulling myself back on topic. :-)
What people do with their lives is up to them. I know what it is like to feel like who I am is wrong and needs to be changed. I wish I had learned at an earlier age to accept the good parts of me and not rely on anyone else's judgments.
Runtu...life is a journey is it not? Not many of us escape feeling judged and harshly so, and most of us wish we could roll back the tape and deal with those types of situations with the wisdom we gain over the years.
But we can't.
For whatever it may be worth to you, notice that I haven't shared my perspective on whether or not homosexuals should be judged or what I think about the effectiveness of the type of behavior mod TAO has suggested, because no one has asked me.
My only interest in joining this thread was for a chance to engage TAO. In my view, TAO is a breath of fresh air to this forum. I tend to value those people whom I think are unique in some way, so my joining this thread is two-fold in purpose. I want to know what TAO thinks, but more than that, I want to know HOW he thinks it.
TAO's presence on this board is the one and only thing that has generated any interest in me for a very long time and that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic and everything to do with who I am and what I devote myself to in real life.
:-)