Hey guys.

I just don't know. Finding out I was autistic has led me to question several things that society seems to mouth after each other mindlessly. However, are these things they say really true? Maybe the words don't actually mean what they mean, or maybe we just don't remember what they truly mean when they were invented for use in English, I don't know. Most words seem to come from Latin anyway, and you know what they say about "lost in translation".

When I had depression, it also made me question things. Things that seemed so obvious and so right at the time, and all my life before that.

Isn't it weird how when you're depressed you can't even do "the simple things", or when you are autistic you can't do the "normal" or "trivial" things?

Maybe all this happens for a good reason. Maybe we, the "different" people have come here to challenge long held myths or blatant lies, which are hidden under layers of seeming good-will? Maybe people had the best of intentions when saying it but said these things with half the knowledge.

Anyway, there are some things that were said which I've been thinking about. What I want to do is start a list here, and if there are some that you know of or have been thinking about, let's add it here and let's discuss it. Who knows, maybe it creates some kind of breakthrough moment for someone. Here is my starting list:

1. You have to love yourself first before you can love others.
2. God helps those who make the effort and sacrifices to help themselves.
3. The poor are poor because they don't know how to work with money properly.
4. People who look good and who are in shape are like that because they truly care about their bodies and are the ones who make the effort to look after it.

Bible verses quoted without reading a little further in order to interpret them:

1. Love thy neighbour.

And lastly, sayings/verses/taglines that are truthful, but nobody applies them for real, they just mouth it:

1. Never judge a book by its cover.
2. True love for a partner and just sexual attraction is not the same thing.
3. All you need to do, is believe.

Those are the immediate ones I can think of. There are more, it'll come to me in time. Hopefully we can share these with each other here. Also, feel free to write down those that really irk you.