Mood Swings and Rant on Stereotyping

As well as having aspergers I also suffer from anxiety and have a lot of mood swings. I can go from really happy to very sad in seconds. Often it happens for no reason, but I suspect that underlying emotional problems are the trigger for me. For example, I find out about an awesome book to read and I get hyped up, but then I realise I have few people to talk to about this new book that I start feeling sad. In some circumstances the mood swing can result in me feeling unhappy and depressed. Also, I often start feeling ill when I am really down.

My methods of dealing with mood swings is simply trying to relax and return my mood back to neutral. I do have a problem with over thinking, which causes me to have anxiety attacks and severe mood swings.

My next topic is stereotyping, which I hate. In the modern world people are too quick to judge. The groups often targeted by judgmental people are: teenagers, geeks, emos, women, people with physical or mental disabilities and politicians. As a person who is on the Autistic Spectrum and a little geeky, I have experienced stereotyping first hand. I was a hard working student at school and labelled a geek, but in a negative way.

I would argue that there has been a huge change in ways different people are viewed. Anybody who does nor follow the crowd are often immediately stereotyped, despite the fact that all innovations in technology are created by people who think in a different way. For example, Bill Gates helped to create Microsoft Windows, and he possibly has aspergers and would have been labelled a geek at school. However, many people struggle to ignore negative judging people and live an unhappy life.

On the other hand, people who consider themselves geeky or emo are starting to fight back by reclaiming the terms geek and nerd, and turning them into positive terms. Moreover, the problems facing the world today require new solutions rather than the status quo. People need to value intelligent people or people who see the world differently, as they are the ones capable of saving our beloved planet.