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Zetaman40

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Just wondering if there are any other zoos here with autism? Please tell me I'm not alone. BTW a lot of people with autism do have a close connection with animals! Before anyone jumps the gun, no I'm not saying all zoos are autistic or vice versa, just that someone with a close and deep interest in animals is more predisposed for a sexual attraction as well. For me I've had a deep emotional and sexual attraction for animals since I was young: basically my whole life, people, I just lack both for, tbh honest socializing with people is really hard for me, with animals it always has come natural and effortless, I'm not sure how to explain it, I just relate a lot with them, and understand them and communicate non-verbally well with them on almost like a "telepathic" level (only word I could think of that comes close)
 
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Why in the world should a perfectly adorable cygnet ask for reassurance that he is an ugly duckling?

I have done so in the past, but eventually, I stopped trying to get good at being mediocre, and I am catching up on being awesome.

I have sought services for ASD before, but the fact of the matter was that I just had not found where in the world I fit in. I once chalked up the fact that I did not fit in to a lack of good social skills, but no amount of social skills will make you quite a fit for a society that has quite intentionally built itself around the concept of keeping you out of it at all costs. It is throwing good seed onto barren soil.

I have fixed that, and I get along alright, now.
 
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I wasn't asking for reassurance that I'm a "ugly duckling", I was asking solely to see if there was anyone zoo on here that's autistic like me, being on the spectrum doesnt make you a lesser person! I just want to find someone with a similar mind whose experienced the world from a different view
 
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I wasn't asking for reassurance that I'm a "ugly duckling", I was asking solely to see if there was anyone zoo on here that's autistic like me, being on the spectrum doesnt make you a lesser person! I just want to find someone with a similar mind whose experienced the world from a different view
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I do have a different view, just not the one that I had previously thought.

I am not neurotypical, but I do not have Aspergers. I used to think that I did, but I think that I really have something else entirely going on.

I might argue that I could be bipolar, but I no longer believe that I have any illness that warrants the attention of a psychiatrist. Being weird does not make me mentally ill. Hibernating like a bear for months at a time and then later having outbursts of creativity accompanied by a sense of being touched by divine inspiration does not really constitute an illness. It constitutes a psychiatric curiosity, maybe, but in my current situation in life, I am getting along alright.

When I was a kid, it was proclaimed that I was "mentally ill," but I think that it was perfectly rational that, when a full grown man grabbed me from behind, I bit him on his hand viciously and began kicking him violently in the shins. If any child of mine did not do the same in that situation, then I would really be deeply disappointed.

I am glad to find that you also do not subscribe to the neurotypical-centric doctrine that anything that is not neurotypical inherently constitutes a defect. I laugh at the idea that mediocrity is conflated so with "health."
 
Took a couple tests skipped the brain scan and was told I was on the spectrum.
It explains my unending need to know how everything that is physical and non-living works. (My first word was apparently light as in light bulb) Also some social issues that i've worked out over time.
 
I don't know. I suspect I am, and others have said 'yeah, probably'.

As relates to relating to animals
I have to overclock my brain to understand what most people get in social situations. It is insufficient, but better than nothing.
I understand animals better than I understand humans. If they lie, I haven't seen it, but then I find it difficult to know when humans are being false with me.

I consider other species as 'people', too. ... Seems like that would be something that would broaden one's notions of romance and eroticim.
 
I've been diagnosed with a laundry list of things including autism. Not sure if it's true or if doctors just don't know how to classify me (they never could agree on it).
 
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I've been diagnosed with a laundry list of things including autism. Not sure if it's true or if doctors just don't know how to classify me (they never could agree on it).
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Psychology is infinitely difficult. Biology is bad 'nuff. Chemistry can be calculated, but there is just too much of it. That's why I like Physics.
Biology is still at the guessing level. Psych? People really do their best, but it's too ramified.
 
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Just wondering if there are any other zoos here with autism? Please tell me I'm not alone. BTW a lot of people with autism do have a close connection with animals! Before anyone jumps the gun, no I'm not saying all zoos are autistic or vice versa, just that someone with a close and deep interest in animals is more predisposed for a sexual attraction as well. For me I've had a deep emotional and sexual attraction for animals since I was young: basically my whole life, people, I just lack both for, tbh honest socializing with people is really hard for me, with animals it always has come natural and effortless, I'm not sure how to explain it, I just relate a lot with them, and understand them and communicate non-verbally well with them on almost like a "telepathic" level (only word I could think of that comes close)
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Dude we are probably all autistic some of yall have memorized dog anatomy and niche facts that no one would ever even think to learn I know for a fact most of you can tell me damn near to the second how long a dog will stay tied
 
I am on a spectrum too. I don’t know is that’s really a connection, can be a correlation but there is no data about how common is this. How many people just don’t know they’re autistic or just fully agreed to being zoos?
But yeah the connection with animals are different, I fully agree with you a more natural.
 
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Just wondering if there are any other zoos here with autism? ............................For me I've had a deep emotional and sexual attraction for animals since I was young: basically my whole life, people, I just lack both for, tbh honest socializing with people is really hard for me, with animals it always has come natural and effortless, I'm not sure how to explain it, I just relate a lot with them, and understand them and communicate non-verbally well with them on almost like a "telepathic" level (only word I could think of that comes close)
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Yes. But I found out much later that it is autism. Also the affection to physics, digging into problems while totally fading out your surrounding, hating competition with humans but loving pushing myself to limits, having routine ticks, feeling highly uncomfortable with human closeness and crowds..yeah.
I also think the rate of autism among zoos is high. Especially with the exclusive ones.
 
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