petdave
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I was once told everyone is to some extent a borderline Aspie as is everyone a borderline schizophrenic, manic depressive etc etc
All these disorders as society calls them, might just be people with a different view to the norm, people with different abilities.
It serves those in mental health care to categorise a person, give them a label, make them different from everyone else. Something which could cynicaly viewed as justifying their own position and there, their pay cheque, not to mention the drug companies.
Well, with many disorders/syndromes, the diagnostic criteria for treatment include whether the individual experiences discomfort or hardship due to the condition.
It's entirely possible to be on the "mild" end of the autistic spectrum and be "normal and well-adjusted". If it's only a footnote to your life/personality, it's not a disorder, so no treatment is usually involved.
People with more pronounced symptoms can have significant difficulties in social integration. If this is a stressor for them, what do you do? It's not really feasible to change social norms. You're not going to teach the 95%-ish percent of the population that is neurotypical to discontinue use of body language and complex speech inflections in face-to-face conversations. So you try to help the "other" to "fit in", or at least find a way to feel better about not fitting in.
As far as the implication that people are self-diagnosing to make themselves "special"... i donno. Some people seem to have an almost compulsive need to do that, and they'll always find something (usually, several things at once) to adopt. i don't much care about them one way or the other until they start spreading incorrect information as "fact".
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RE: Anyone in here have aspergers or is autistic - 
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