Would you want Aspergers to be classed a disability?

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I would, for one main reason. In the US, we could use the threat of lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act to make our lives less unpleasant. Note I dont say to gain acceptance, because that we will never have. I mean this espically, for example, for those of us who have to work in say food service and get harrassed by management for not smiling and not being artifically cheerful to the customers. Some court ordered mandatory diversity training and sensitivity training at great expense to the NT offenders could remedy this.

I vote yes because it is a condition that to some extent changes your life for the worse.

To my understanding, Aspergers is classified under Autism Spectrum Disorder. With DSM V, it would be lumped with it under an official diagnosis. For example, I have Aspergers. But my official forms say Autism Spectrum Disorder Level 1. Witch is protected if I'm correct under ADA.

It's a disability in the UK. Not sure the extent to which it would protect you from some of the things you mentioned. If you have a job in the service industry and part of that job is smiling etc then it could be considered that you shouldn't apply for jobs like that if you can't do them.. As it is in the UK employers are required to make "reasonable adjustments", but you still need to do the core of the job.

Is it classed as a disability. It is not a personality type like introversion is or highly sensitive person or an empath. Those three I just listed are not classified as disorders because the percentage of how many people there are with it is too high even though they are still the minority.

I don't feel, in the US, that there are very many people who have been approved for SSI solely for having an Asperger's/ASD Level One diagnosis.

Supposedly it is classed as such in the UK, yet at the same time you won't get approved for the equivalent of SSI at ASD Level 1 because you would be deemed too high functioning and capable of working.

They don't care if the devil in the details is that just holding that job down might be causing stress through-the-roof and starts to compromise you entire mental and physical health-landscape.

I think what qualifies as a disability is up to a doctor. Like say the difference between being diagnosed with poor eyesight and being dx as legally blind. Something as commonplace as arthritis can be diagnosed as a disability if it's bad enough. It's not always so much what you have, but rather how bady it incapacitates you that matters. Plus there's often comorbids that go with autism that can incapacitate a person badly enough to qualify as a disability.

In the UK there is no longer a registration as "disabled" the receipt of Personal Independence Payment (PIP which replaced DLA) is one of the few ways of proving disability day-to-day.

Asperger's certainly dis-ables me and I have always informed employers at the first opportunity, usually in the application form.

Ofcourse I want it classified as a disability. Because that's what it is.