If the rules are not going to be followed, then they wonder


why they exist. If the rules are going to be ignored, then

why don't the people who are making the rules make fewer or

let the Aspies write the rules so that they make sense?

Now this is known to make Aspies seem a little contradictory.

Since they don't understand unwritten rules, and it takes them

awhile to internalize printed rules, then what right do they

have to insist on anyone following the rules that they can

barely remember?

Because Aspies need structure.

Just like a Christmas tree starts out bare, but provides

a foundation for the decorations,

Aspies need a base to build upon, in every situation.

There has to be something there to depend upon,

otherwise they are floating freely, engaging in free association

and having to realize that not everyone suffers the same

reference points or is even paying attention.

Aspies are paying attention. Just not to what they are supposed

to, because the people who do the supposing are not paying

attention themselves, but they have the power and the Aspies

normally do not.


Let's say that an Aspie is starting a new job and walks in the

first day and notices everything that is wrong with the place,

the dirt, the unrepaired things, and the awful anti-symmetry

of the floorplan.

The training manager doesn't want the Aspie to notice anything

except what they want them to notice.

So the Aspie has to try to pay attention to something inconsequential

while still being distracted by the disorder.

This lends an entertaining pall to the whole first impression

business because the Aspie believes she is going to have

to work with ignorant slobs and the training manager

believes she is trying to train an easily distracted spacehead.

The sad thing is, they may both be right.


If an Aspie goes to church, and has read the entire Bible book

that the day's lesson is taken from, and finds when he

gets into Sunday School class that only three verses are

focused on in the lesson, and the actual context of the

verses is ignored for the sake of the doctrinal slant

that the sect the church belongs to requires, then

the Aspie is justified in believing that

something against the rules is going on.

If the Sunday School teacher has to deal with the Aspie

constantly referring to the context at the expense of the

lesson plan, then the teacher may be justified in believing that

the Aspie doesn't really belong to the sect that he is supposed

to in order to belong to that church.


Of course, there are those who believe that Jeshua Von Nazareth

was an Aspie... which could explain a lot of things.

He was very concerned with people who wouldn't follow the written

rules.

He also, as I do sometimes, had a messianic complex.

News to you, huh?