naturalplastic wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
It is ironic that one episode from the comedy show South Park has unintentionally done more to make the word Aspergers have a negative connotation in the General Public and among those on the spectrum then all of the money of Autism Speaks and the authority of the DSM 5. I have seen a drastic change in attitude just since August when I joined this site.
What happened in this episode of South Park?
The term "Ass Burgers" was coined
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-ep ... ss-burgers Or they popularized it after it was already coined - sucks either way.
Guess it had to happen. My generation never heard of aspergers growing up. So it had no associations -good or bad. Indeed even most shrinks in the USA never heard of the term until ten years after 1994 when it became an official diagnostic term in the USA. Before 2004 most therapist didnt know about it- so the lay public was even more ignorant of the term. But now I guess its crept into the lexicon of the public. And now derogatory variants have to occur on the school playground. Oh well!
In the school playground I guess it would be expected, but I have to see it on nearly every youtube video about the syndrome, and the year I get diagnosed people on the spectrum start internalizing the negativity and the DSM 5 has to come into effect? Story of my life. Oh well.
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Diagnosed and joined WP August 26, 2013
DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder
DSM IV: Moderate to Severe Asperger Syndrome
"We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfill their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.”
Quote by Hans Asperger during the era of Nazi Eugenics when it was literally a matter of life and death
26 Dec 2013, 12:26 am
