Asperger's syndrom 'Fashionable' ?!

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Eating Disorders used to be in fashion. They were for a long, long time.

wow, for the first time ever in my life i'm FASHIONABLE!! !! ! woo hoo!

LMAO! ....so what u gonna do now...hey maybe we could take a money for people seeing us if we are fhasionable (just joking)

Because I know them, and they do things like attend games, go to loud parties, and can't understand my reluctance to join them. It's not arrogant, extreme or otherwise, to voice an opinion. That's what WP is for.

this reminds me of the time I was recognised from WP in the bathroom at a bar by a trendy looking, smartly dressed attractive girl, who was in there with her girlfriends...

I don't think she is on WP anymore though.

I've been a Techie since 1994, but I forget important details and have a very difficult time taking tests. You can't get letters after your name without passing tests.

As for Fashionable, I never hear any of that. I see it on the web, though ...

So true! Very well put.

What? It's definitely not popular when you have it!

I wouldn't take away my Aspergers, but I certainly don't wish it for anybody. It's very lonely sometimes.

I too think there should be a "suspected Asperger's" category. I strongly suspect I have Asperger's, but I'm NOT "self-diagnosed". I would not attempt to "self-diagnose" myself with anything.

I don't like the existing "Have Asperger's - undiagnosed" or "Not sure if I have it or not" categories.

It's that f*****g Napoleon Dynamite movie's fault. That made it cool to be uncool.

LOL. Funny, cos I don't understand it.

Of course, this could have the unwanted side effect of those who DO have AS being torn apart in communities such as this, by those who are over-cautious of those who are just following the 'fad'.

I'm still not buying it. Where are you guys meeting all these aspie wannabes anyway? Have you really encountered enough suspicously NT aspies to be able to call it fashionable? I'm not talking about the internet. That's not a reliable source to know other people. Until I start seeing and hearing other people even talking about AS, it's an urban myth as far as I'm concerned.

I agree. A high-ranking psychologist at a major university told my dad that it's become fashionable for people who "don't really have it" to say they have AS, but I'm just not seeing it. How can something be fashionable when most people have no idea what it is? It's rare for me to find someone who's heard of AS in real life and rarer still for me to find someone who really understands it. People at the Dean of Students office and someone who has an aspie cousin are pretty much the only people who've known about it when I've told them.

i feel like part of the explanation here lies in that asperger's has a fairly wide spectrum of symptoms. some of the symptoms are shared with other mental issues like ADD, or autism, and some arent. some of them also resemble odd traits that those referred to here as NT's might or might not have.

people self diagnose based on these types of similarities. they do it because 1) asperger's is an interesting thing to learn about, and 2) people are naturally 'hypochondriacs'. how many times have you heard from someone "oh i think i'm getting sick" or "i've got a bad ____" without any medical support?

a third reason would be that introverts, whether autistic, ADD, asperger's or none of the above, tend to self diagnose with a condition that they think fits what they feel at the time. used to be people would self-diagnose as clinically depressed, or maybe bipolar disorder. maybe now they self-diagnose with asperger's.

I think the "Aspergers Fashion" is the only thing that is a myth. Even after Napolean Dynamite, though he was pretty cool, Im sorry, but I just dont see NTs lining up to be on the spectrum. If anything the NTs who I talk to deny the existence of the spectrum.

Oh, and for the record, Im self diagnosed, and Im not an introvert.

no it is not popular when you have it, i agree, and it is a lonely thing to live, i'm sure of that.
it is not about the 'label' either but about the issues,
so even without label you can just as well 'suffer' from the issues.



I don't think Asperger's really IS fashionable, but some people SAY it is, I have no idea whether there are people who are actually 'pretending' to have AS,
But: there are people who do say "Oh, Yes, but nowadays everyone has Asperger's".
People told me that, and I've read similar reports of others.
I think that is a very unhealthy way of reacting,
First it has made me think that I was only making it up for myself. While the moment I really stopped doubting about it (and hey ho I am 40 ! ! so I really did know that something had been going on all my life!) I finally decided to go for a diagnosis, to have a better knowledge of this 'certain way of being'
and
Second it makes me not want to talk about it which only makes the isolation worse.
And maybe I can deal with that now, but I surely would not have been able to deal with that when I was 20 !