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thepillowdreamer -> RE: asperger's epidemic on collarme? (2/28/2010 7:15:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Psykic
Oh, I totally agree. You know what other disorder I have noticed in the scene, male effeminate disorder. Men who suffer from it colloquially refer to it is being "gay". The suicide rate among adult sufferers has gone down in the last few decades, but it is still much higher than the general population, especially among adolescents. Hopefully someday we can get help for all of the people afflicted with this terrible mental illness.
Wait, what's that? Being gay isn't a mental illness, you say? They only have a higher rate of depression and suicide because they live in a society that doesn't understand or accept them?? Well gosh, don't I feel like a bigot for assuming that someone is mentally ill just because their brain is wired differently than mine.
The first two paragraphs there were sarcasm, for anyone who didn't catch that. As someone who has Aspergers Syndrome, has a significant other with Aspergers Sydrome, two close friends with Aspergers Syndrome, and hangs out on the blog of someone with Aspergers Syndrome (where many of those who comment have it as well), I can tell you that it is not an illness any more than being gay is. Aspies tend to get along fantastically well with each other, we just have trouble getting along with neurotypicals (people who aren't aspies/autistics). The only real handicap it seems to cause is an inability to relate to and understand normal people.
By the way, several of the symptoms you listed are things that I have never read/heard before, and have never observed from myself or other Aspies. In fact, only three of those seem remotely accurate. One of which being low self-esteem, which is, as I said before, caused by being an outcast. So really only two out of the eight are things that are actually directly a result of having Aspergers Syndrome. I would like to know what the source of your information is.
Oh, and if you really do think that it is an 'illness', than you need to remember that it is an illness that was had by Einstein, Newton, Ben Franklin, Nikoli Tesla, Mozart, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Shakespeare, Bobby Fisher, Thomas Edison, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Mary Curie, Emily Dickenson, and scores of other people who revolutionized their field. At least those are some of the people who are suspected of having Aspergers Syndrome. And they accomplished so much not in spite of having Aspergers Syndrome, but because of it.
obviously i got you riled up, and i can understand why. i worded myself in typical shitty manner, apparently started a topic that people don't want to talk about, and i don't know. i'm sorry. sincerely.
i'm not a bad person, but i do believe that asperger's is an illness. just like my anxiety and depression is an illness. good things have come of those, too, as well as the bad.
as far as how i worded myself in the op: i was referring to people with asperger's who don't know that they have it; specifically, people who are on the more severe end of the spectrum. in my list up there, i wasn't making a rush to judgment or anything, but going by the people i was an aide for; these are people who bite (and break skin) when someone accidentally brush against them, who can't function in public to the point of me panicking and thinking that they've gone catatonic, and do hold deep obsessions.
i know i'm rationalizing, but i am sorry that i offended you and anyone else with high-functioning asperger's. i hate it when people make assumptions about my handicaps, and i'm sorry that i made you feel that shitty.
again though, from the messages i've gotten here, i'm honestly wondering about people with asperger's who do need some sort of help. i mean that in the least offensive possible way.
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