I’m reading ‘How to win friends and influence people’ by Dale Carnegie. I’m sure you heard about this book, it’s a classic in psychology and social skills training.
First published in 1936, so a little while ago; one of the chapters talks about how every human has the need to feel important, the author goes as far as to assume some people ‘go insane’ because this need is not met. Thankfully, since that time we made some advancements in psychiatry, but I do wonder, would I be ‘insane’ now, if I wasn’t on olanzapine?
I do feel the need to be important, I’m not going to lie, but I somehow assumed this is connected to me being autistic, either directly (I prefer to be important than to be loved because this is how my brain works) or indirectly (years of being wronged by people made me feel like I need the world to make up for it). It is now a surpirse to read that other people have that need too, especially that no one ever talks about it.
Sometimes succesful people say ‘I had that feeling that I was made for more’ but they only say that after becoming successful. I’ve never heard anyone admitting that when they work towards becoming important. So I’ll be first: I have the feeling that I am made for more. This is why I blog.
This is why I’m taking the risk here to show you my true self.
Autistic and me 