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Alien UFO Valentine - AN ASPERGER VALENTINE? What is considered "weird" or "crazy" these days usually starts with a deviation from "normal". In reality, there are very few "normal" people - that is, people who behave, look, and think exactly as "the norm of the day" dictates. We are all weird in some way and all normal in other ways. One of the great things about the Internet is that it has allowed many people who thought themselves "weird" or "crazy" (or were told they were) to discover that they are not alone. For years, most serious media and institutions have labeled people with strong interests in UFOs as "crazy" or "weird". But if you Google "UFO" you will get over 53 million hits. "Alien" brings up over 32 million hits. People are fascinated by the idea that we are not alone in the universe and that there are some things that simply cannot be explained with our science or by our religions. Are all these people "crazy"? Can we just dismiss all this by saying that some people cannot tell the difference between Startrek, Stargate, or Star Wars and reality? Due to almost the same social labeling mechanism, driven by "fear of the unknown" or "fear of being different", people who think or behave differently are commonly labeled as "crazy" or "weird" (unless they are very rich and/or very famous). One of these groups that has recently come into focus due to improved diagnostic methods are people called "Aspies". Aspie is short for Asperger's Syndrome, first recognized in 1944 and first used as a diagnosis in the 1970's. Aspies are people with behavior and thought tendencies that seem to fall within the upper or higher functioning areas of the autism spectrum. It is a condition that is very difficult to diagnose and deal with because Aspies think differently than the "norm". Aspies tend to have difficulties interacting socially and often think in pictures more than with words. We all have social problems at times and we all sometimes think visually, but Aspies do it better and more often. Aspies have also found company on the Internet. Googling "Aspergers" gets nearly 2 million hits. There are probably more Aspies out there than we ever knew. If you look long enough on the net you will even find opinions out there that the rise in "autistic behavior" in our societies is due to alien breeding programs and other such wild theories. The truth is that Aspies tend to have very strong and focused interests, but have no more tendency to be Ufologists than the rest of the population, but they do seem to take things more literally than "word thinkers" do. Most people hearing or reading the famous saying by Pliny "Home is where the heart is," understand it as an emotional concept. But, for an Aspie, the phase could trigger an image like the drawing above. Specially during the days leading up to Valentines Day
