My Various Thoughts After Watching 2 Videos On North Korea

This is a copy & paste of a series of tweets I made today. Last night, I watched two videos that were both about the testimonies of a person that have been in North Korea and left. I made tweets about various thoughts I formed from watching these videos. I will post the links to the videos below if you are interested in watching them, too.

1st Video I Watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6weGCM3sWKc

2nd Video I Watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdxPCeWw75k

I cried last night listening to the testimony of a North Korean woman who escaped NK. I used to think that illegal immigrants shouldn’t be allowed in the US, but now my mind is changing. I am disappointed that my country would ever deport a human being to such a dangerous place.

We are such a privileged country. As much as I fear for USA’s future, hate its division, hypocrisy, sexism, and whole bunch of other things, we are not nearly as unfortunate as NK. Not saying US’s problems don’t matter. They do and need attention. But let’s count our blessings

I believe that privilege isn’t evil. I think it is opportunity to help the less privileged. NK doesn’t have the privilege of truth, feeling safe, safe to discuss problems, of reading the Bible w/out fearing for their lives, of visiting their families in SK. We must help them!

As a woman, especially who looks vulnerable & weak & young, i’ve had ppl tell me I should never visit places like Africa. I have a problem w/that. What about women & girls who look like me who have no choice but to live in dangerous places? Who will risk their lives to help them?

If I risked my life to save ppl in danger bc of where they live, I almost don’t care if I die or get hurt for it. I can’t say much bc I never done anything beyond giving my money to charities, but we must accept that if these ppl are to be saved, SOMEONE has to risk their life.

Ppl are so afraid of risking their lives or even just donating their money & resources to ppl in danger that they forget that these are HUMAN BEINGS that could DIE seeking truth. We may not have idealistic privileges in the US, but how can we say we care when we don’t sacrifice?

It’s true, there are so many problems happening in the US. We have people who are mistreated, ppl that worry for the future, ppl who feel hopeless, ppl being abused, ppl who are in poverty, etc. We must care about those things too. But let’s count our blessings while we’re at it

My thoughts r mixed on illegal immigration at this point. On one hand, we’re risking allowing dangerous ppl into US. On the other hand, we risk endangering innocent ppl even more by deporting them. It’s not black & white at all. Let’s not be selfish & let actions guided by LOVE Here is a comment a Twitter user named @NicholasHayman made on this tweet: Exactly, I think that all cases must be considered and dealt with individually and at the end of the day humans are humans and all developed western countries have a duty to protect the most vulnerable immigrants even if they have entered illegally.

Please be gracious with me on this topic. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking hard about super recently. I haven’t researched a whole lot yet. I haven’t had enough time to form conclusions. If you disagree, please give benefit of the doubt.

Why I Once Wanted To Be A Man

This blog post is a copy & paste of a post I made on my FaceBook page yesterday https://www.facebook.com/AlexAsperVlogs/posts/519507428586716:0?__tn__=K-R

I wanted to go more in depth after posting this Tweet on Twitter on my AAV channel Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/AlexAsperVlogs/status/1133730486575149056

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019: I made myself a bit vulnerable today. I’ve been reading a lot and watching videos on how many men and women feel about themselves when it comes to what gender they identify with and when they are mistreated by the opposite sex. It breaks my heart. I want to share my heart today.

Note: this post will be about my beliefs particularly on TRADITIONAL genders, not the gender spectrum. I acknowledge there are different genders people identify with. In fact, this post explores and wonders why that is. I love you no matter who you are and the differences between us.

The truth is: men are unfairly stereotyped. So are women. Some people relate to the opposite gender so much that they may even decide to go trans. To all the men that feel demonized, the feminists that feel mistreated by men, and the trans people that identify with the opposite of what sex their born sex, I want you to know that each gender is as much important as they are different. Both men and women are special. It’s unfair to be discriminated because of the gender people perceive in you. There are wonderful men and women that are brave, strong, funny, charming, attractive, civilized, loving, and other great qualities. God created men and women with valuable purposes. Some men and women are born with purposes that even defy society’s gender expectations. Truth is, God made you a man or a woman with a purpose in mind.

As a child, I perceived men as smarter than women, stronger than women, cooler than women, more privileged than women, and more relatable than women. I wanted all those things. Recently I realized that’s because I had a distorted view of who men and women are. Everybody is different and unique and valuable. God loves you just the way you are and made a specific way for a reason. He made some of us more hospitalble than others. He made some gifted in a certain intellectual area than others. He made some stronger than others to protect. He made men that enjoy cooking, putting on makeup, and relate a lot to women. He made women that enjoy goofy “dude” movies, that like video games, and relate a lot to men. I believe these are “gender” expectations that can apply to any gender. I think it’s great when men and women relate to each other ❤

Note: to those that are trans gender or non-binary, this isn’t to say that your feelings on gender doesn’t matter. God cares about your feelings. I’m sharing this because I want you to know that neither gender is evil. The sex you were assigned at birth isn’t evil. It’s a gender that’s misunderstood by many. Because of this, men that suffer toxic masculinity and extreme feminists have turned people against each other. I want everyone to appreciate, accept, and love each other. No matter what gender (or no gender) you identify with, please think about what I have to say on gender. I know I didn’t talk much about non-traditional genders, but for a reason: it’s to honor two categories of gender: male and female. If you wanted (or still want) to change your gender for the same reasons I did, please consider what I have to say. This isn’t me demanding you change, this is me asking you to think about the 2 traditional genders specifically. My wish is for you to believe my points however you see fit in a way that’s meaningful to you.

Me personally, I accept the gender I’m born with. I relate to people that want to change their gender or identify with neither. These are just my personal reasons for accepting the gender I identify with. If you share my previous distorted reasons for wanting to change, please re-evaluate yourself. Why do you want to identify as trans or queer or non-binary? Does it come from indignation? Or does it come from something else? Perhaps both?

Let’s love and accept each other for their genders. Let’s not judge people that don’t fit the gender norm. Let’s honor the two traditional genders God created. Let’s be truthful with one another and ourselves ❤

Lemme Tell You Something About Facial Recognition & Autism

I’m autistic and I don’t always recognize people. Yeah, it’s a thing. I failed to recognize an old coworker today and it was embarrassing. I don’t know about other autistic people, but I HATE not recognizing people when people expect me to know who they are.

Today, I was taking the order of what I thought was just a normal customer. He was actually a former coworker of mine. We worked together for a couple of months. Because he wasn’t in uniform (obviously, cuz he quit the job), I did not think it was him. He started laughing a little bit when I talked to him like a cashier talking to any other customer. That’s when I thought, ‘Crap, am I supposed to know him?’

While packing his order, I hear my manager say, “Hey, Greg.” Damn it, it was Greg. I felt this wave of embarrassment come over me. It’s embarrassing because it makes me feel abnormal.

People have laughed at me in the past when I fail to recognize people, especially people that they think I should know because they go to my church or friends with my parents or something like that. I hate it.

Lemme give you another example of how bad my ability to recognize faces is:

My dad has a long time friend and coworker. He’s been part of my Dad’s life since I was a baby. He’s been to our house multiple times. This friend of his even had his wedding at our house! One day, he comes into the KFC I work at while I’m the cashier. He gives me his order, and the whole time I talk to him like any other customer. I did not recognize him one bit. After I gave him the receipt, he tells me he knows my Dad. I recognized his name, but not his face. A few days later, I bring the whole thing up to my Mom and she tells me that this friend told her and my Dad about it, too. He was bewildered at how I didn’t recognize him. I felt totally abnormal.

It’s the same with celebrities. I mistook the famous singers Rihanna and Beyoncé as the same person for a long time. I will literally watch movies with people and they will say the name of a famous actor that’s in the movie, and I will have no clue that it was the same person from another movie I’ve watched them in. For example, I watched Inception and someone went, “Hey, that’s Leonardo DiCaprio.” I be all like “Who?” Them: “You know, Jack from Titanic.” *facepalm*

Anyway, I needed to vent that frustration. My Autistic peeps, feel free to comment on your experience with facial recognition issues. PLEASE. I need to hear from others that this isn’t just me!