As an Aspie person, I totally get being the 1 person out of 10 with a different view. I have been right more often than not.

So let me ask, is it accepting your peers in order to fit in?

Me, I don't care about fitting in. I gave up on that long ago.

I *delight* in not fitting. I *enjoy* being strange. My strangeness has served me well. Is THAT my issue?

Sure it has been a 'corporate-land' liability, but I still brought good ideas to the table. Sometimes they have been precient and have saved a boatload of cash. I believe in daring to be different.

Scaling it back more than a little bit, I still want to understand why members here are so conflicted? What could be so bad? Why?

Isn't maintaining relationships worth more than running away? Even if you CD, aren't you are still the person you are? Clothes can't change that. It isn't like you are giving in, that cute person is YOU, even if you don't admit why. It is just you.

<still confused>