TheMachine1 wrote:
No anger. But it would be nice to know what motivated the author to write it. Black humor, mental confusion or hate. I have seen some trolls that really hate the self-dx on WP so my guess its the same person(s) or mind set. Its what the person must do to solve their ED problems I guess.
His "article" is highly irrational and appears clouded by emotion, he makes lots of spurious claims too, therefore, I personally suspect this was a character who has had a problematic dealing with an Aspie and this is some way to solve their ED problems as you say. Maybe it got fired by an Aspie boss or maybe it was passed up for promotion in favour of an Aspie, possibly even someone who had a failed relationship with an Aspie. Perhaps it has somekind of inferiority complex. I don't think anyone should allow that article to anger them. It simply isn't worth the energy or time. The poor little primate should just be left alone in a dark corner to rot getting zero feedback on it's article.
Fortunately people like that seldom have any influence so we shouldn't worry. However, saying that, I too can't say I approve of all these people who self-diagnose, at least those who do nothing with their conclusions like getting a professional DX ASAP. It's becoming far too fashionable in some circles to claim having AS. For example, the minute I was diagnosed a little over 2 years ago, my very obviously NT (and slightly insane) mother concluded she had to have AS too. She was determined to "join the club" as it were. I don't think those kinds of self-DX are helpful to us. Just my 2 cents.