My husband suggested I have two different blogs rather than just this one. Poor guy. I know he means well, but apparently there still are things he cannot understand. I comprehend his logic, but honestly cannot see how to incorporate the purpose of two blogs. Why two blogs? Actually he would have suggested three, if he remembered that I also write about my Christian faith and many people today are offended by that too.
I was told my writing will not be taken seriously because I inject my moods into most of my posts. The solution supposedly is for me to have one blog presenting a respectable ‘professional’ image and another blog for things that would otherwise be kept ‘bottled up’ with the lid on tight, especially for my emotions. For example, I’m well aware that my sense of humor is unlike the norm. I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody shares my sense of humor (generally speaking). In fact, how can anyone share emotions with others if the necessary common denominators¹ simply don’t exist?
Asperger Syndrome people are human and most Aspies are not mentally ill. Many people misjudge others whom they cannot understand. I know because I’m always being misjudged. It’s normal for me and that’s why I’m sure my blog is probably misjudged too. Creating another blog isn’t going to help with that problem. Maybe two or more blogs would be beneficial to most people with multiple agendas, but for me to blog in a Dissociative Identity Disorderly manner (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is not going to be beneficial for either my readers or myself.
I know people behave differently at their job and can change their persona when off work as easily as one can change his shoes. It would make sense then that these same people would have no problem with maintaining different types of blogs either. This is why it seems like a good idea to remind people that Aspies like me don’t function the same way they do. Maybe I can separate posts somewhat and make a lame attempt at categorizing them, but to actually place them into a different blog? That would be like me forcing everyone to behave (and dress) the same way wherever they are and whoever they’re with — everyone would have to be consistent with the image they present.
This is why Aspies are derogatorily complained about for insisting on making their own rules for what they do. Neurotypical people NEED instruction manuals for knowing how to have functional relationships with Aspies just as much as Aspies NEED instruction manuals for co-existing with them. However, imagine being forced to live in a foreign country that will not tolerate, let alone want to understand why, your ways don’t match theirs. Or how about a wild animal captured and taken away from its natural habitat and being locked into a zoo created by creatures who have no clue how this wild animal thinks and/or feels?
¹By common denominators, I don’t mean people with Aspergers lack such things as empathy and/or humor. All human beings have the ability to experience the same basic functions. The difference though with neurotypical people is that they use their humanness not only in ways different from neuro-A-typicals, but also they do so for peculiar reasons. An example of a common denominator would be two Italians visiting in America for the first time — those Italians are human beings just like Americans are, but they don’t share the same background experiences of Americans and these Italians also carry slightly different genetic components than most Americans (like different dog breeds do, especially when comparing purebreds against mixed breeds).
