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I am 13, female. Lately, my mom has started to think any disorder that even slightly matches my perssonality is something I have. Last week, it was Asperger's Syndrome, and now she thinks I am a sociopth. I am callous, unfeeling, bookish, a nerd, and socially awkward. I like routine. I have odd beliefs, such as everyone being insane. I tell my parents very little without being provoked. I don't understand normal people, or why anyone would want to be normal. I have few friends and avoid social situations. I overthink things, mainly because I never stop thinking, except while sleeping. I enjoy the comfort of routine and the logic of science, and daedal, descriptive use of words. I obsess over a concept for a month at most, and, extinguishing my resources move on. Conversatin, with me, is often one-sided or nonexistant. I often spout random facts, mistaking what I am nterested in as normal behavior and conversation. I am an atheist, but I often ask myself how the universe was created and what created the source of creation. You can point out my mistakes, what I did wrong, but I am never wrong. Learning is fun for me, but joy, sadness, fear, embarassment are all lost to me, both in understanding and possession. What I ask is, what do you believe is wrong with me? (link)
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Reading this well-structured, intelligent piece of self-analysis, nicely...even entertainingly written, I'm tempted so say there's NOTHING much wrong with you at all. You seem to have a remarkably well-developed, self-sufficient and self-reliant outlook for a girl of thirteen, where peer-pressure, embarrassmnet and the need to conform to a stereotype can often (usually!) be the default option. And that's about it! I feel it's unlikely that you're QUITE the emotional-void you might feel like at the moment, they're part and parcel of even the coldest, logical intellect as and when required. And yours will be 'tapped' at the proper times too. Though I doubt you'll ever 'gush' it! You're pretty RARE I'd say, but nothing wrong. I'd start practicing writing BSc (Hons) or D.Phil. after your name right about NOW if I were you...sounds like just a matter of time! And try not to intellectually destroy your mates too often in discussions...or they won't like it. There's a hope and humanity in honest mistakes that is sometimes lacking in icy perfection. Good luck...if you feel such a superstitious bit of voodoo like luck is appropriate!! ps. On the 'universe, question, if you take the 'infinite' argument then you cannot simply (and wrongly) understand infinity as being 'very big', or 'very old'. The concept means 'existing BEYOND THE BOUNDS of time or distance'. So there was NO 'before'... there can be NO 'after' and there can be NOTHING 'outside' of infinity. (Infinity + 1 = Infinity. And Infinity + 10000000 still only = Infinity and so on....). If indeed the universe IS infinite, it was BORN infinite and the idea of ANYTHING being before or after or outside of is non-causal and impossible. Now you can get some sleep instead of thrashing that one out!!
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I suppose I could allow that answer to suffice, though it's far more likely I'll spend time integrating that into what I believe currently, seeing where it stands compared to what others believe, and how it affects religion, etc. Thanks, though!
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