I think there are one or two commenters at Althouse that are on the spectrum, but I'm not going to name any names, we just want to fit in.

I was checking out 4chan like I normally do, seeing what crazy shit people are up to, and then I come to Althouse and see this post on Asperger's, and I read it to see what it says, because I'm on the spectrum, myself. Regarding the being on the spectrum shit, I don't have a problem with it, it's what I know so I don't know any different.

But it seems like a lot of the people on 4chan are on the spectrum themselves. Some say it, and others you can just kinda tell. It's interesting how you can tell people who probably avoid eye contact just by reading what they write, but there it is.

I think the thing about 4chan is you don't have to worry that people are thinking you are doing the wrong thing, because they're not there. And it is a lot easier to be around people when they aren't actually there. And the people that are there don't want you to see them, so it just works better that way.

Because when you are around people there are all these other things going on, other than what they are saying. And that makes me uncomfortable, because I must be missing something, but I don't know what it is. And trying to know what you're missing is a bitch when you don't know what it looks like.

I don't even like looking at people's eyes in photographs. Sometimes Althouse will have a photo where the person in the photo is looking at you, and they don't stop looking at you because it's a photo, they don't even blink. I don't like that. Sometimes I won't even read the post, because I know the post has those eyes, even when I'm not looking at them right now.

I think there are one or two commenters at Althouse that are on the spectrum, but I'm not going to name any names, we just want to fit in. And it's tough to fit in sometimes because you can tell people are getting frustrated with you, even if it's just the internet. You can only connect the dots you see, people: I'm sorry.

So 4chan is easier that way, because sometimes the people who don't fit in sorta fit in with each other, if you can follow. Maybe that's why there are so many pictures there of chicks spreading their ass cheeks and showing their asshole: you don't have any eye contact, and all the pictures are kind of the same, really, and that is comforting. The same is much easier than different: I like routines.

So part of my routine is reading Althouse every day, but I understand that I'm kinda on the outside of most of the people there. And face it: most people think they're cool with people with Asperger's, but they really aren't, they just think they're cool because they don't want to think of themselves as the kind of people who judge people who don't quite get why you're judging them.

But a lot of these people are still interesting to read, even though they don't know that they are kinda assholes sometimes. But most people don't know when they are being assholes, but then maybe that's cruel neutrality, which I think I get but because I think I get it I don't think I actually get it.