Joe90 wrote:
...asking when it's about if somebody has AS or not, on WP?
I wasn't sure how to word the title, but I will explain what I mean now. I'm not ranting and I'm not directing this at anyone in particular, but I am just curious, that's all. Say if I suspected AS in somebody I knew and so started a thread on WP asking if this person has AS and giving all the details and describing a lot of common AS traits in that person, there are always responses implying that the person is not Aspie and blaming the person's differences on their upbringing and other various background circumstances. Then when I'm writing a post about something completely different and just happen to bring up an NT showing just one Aspie trait or inadvertently misinterpreting some social cue, people respond things like ''are you sure that person was NT?'', even if it is a relative I still get convinced that they ''might be an Aspie because of showing this one Aspie trait'' and that ''they were probably just hiding their Aspie-ness for all the 22 years that I have been related to them for.'' And yet when I am describing a person who might actually be on the spectrum, I get the reverse reply.
I wonder why it's like this? I know people are entitled to their own opinions but it always seems to be the opposite, if you know what I mean. There is never any ''yes, he/she could possibly be on the spectrum'', and perhaps ask a few questions or whatever, rather than trying to think of every possible excuse to say that they are not Aspie, and vice versa when explaining about an NT with an intense obsession.
thats people for ya. i find that this rule normally applies to most topics. honestly, sometimes i feel that if i told somebody the sky was blue, they would argue that it was yellow.
21 Jun 2012, 9:33 am
