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hale_bopp
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27 May 2010, 6:34 pm

I re-designed the site, Its not too flashy but it did take ages. :P

The forum over there is still quite quiet, but thats not too bad. I'm really trying to increase the activity of my youtube channel.



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27 May 2010, 6:36 pm

why not change the name to autistic? aspergers will be outdated.



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28 May 2010, 12:17 am

buryuntime wrote:
why not change the name to autistic? aspergers will be outdated.


Because I already get enough flack about using the word autistic to begin with. I referred to it in one of my videos and heap of angry people had a go at me and said "Stop lying about what you've got when you've only got aspergers".



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28 May 2010, 12:30 am

^^Seriously, hmm they need to be educated.


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28 May 2010, 1:11 am

Yeah. People who get nasty about that, either don't understand the connections, or have an agenda (usually one that involves what they want to happen to autistic people, so they try to shove anyone else out of the category). Or just get very emotional about how bad they think autistic people have it and flip out if anyone equates autism to someone outside their own experience. And then some autistic people with a chip on their shoulder.

I've encountered people who think anyone who can speak or type with fluent sounding language is Asperger because autistic means unable to use words at all. Some people are just really overbearing with their viewpoints on the matter, and get really rude to autistic people of all sorts. People forget Asperger called his patients......... autistic.


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28 May 2010, 1:56 am

anbuend wrote:
I've encountered people who think anyone who can speak or type with fluent sounding language is Asperger because autistic means unable to use words at all.


I had a psychologist at Attwood's say this to me. You'd think they would know better.

You're right: As per Autistic Psychopathy, Hans Asperger actually calls it autism, and for the same reason as Kanner did too; they both knew of Eugen Bleuler's term autism [in schizophrenia], and that labeling of a cluster of symptoms was like the patients they saw.



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28 May 2010, 3:50 am

hmmmm, interesting


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28 May 2010, 5:29 am

There are too many educated people these days who are completely full of crap. Sometimes it just takes one to know one.



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28 May 2010, 5:36 am

So what exactly is the site about?



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30 May 2010, 1:27 am

Newest youtube vid for anyone who is interested..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8iM5RwBP9k[/youtube]

I think youtube will end up being my main promotional tool for that site.



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30 May 2010, 6:11 am

Good Stuff. I wish you sucess.



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30 May 2010, 9:10 am

Just watched that video you embedded above, awesome, you make a good representative for us spectrumites :)

also, I relate very much to having one's diagnosis questioned because of one's developed ability to compensate for things that don't come naturally, you seem better than me at not getting worked up about it though


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30 May 2010, 10:37 am

If you need any php backend work done I can help with that. I'm still not quite sure what the site is specifically about though. I guess just a Q&A type of thing?



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30 May 2010, 12:17 pm

my gf is a member



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30 May 2010, 4:34 pm

kwilky wrote:
If you need any php backend work done I can help with that. I'm still not quite sure what the site is specifically about though. I guess just a Q&A type of thing?


Its basically just an information site, a questions and support site and a message board. I help 90% of the people through email. I would like to add more stuff into the site but my php skills are only av and i don't have much time so I'm concentrating a lot on youtube right now.



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30 May 2010, 4:36 pm

It's looking to be a good site Hale Bopp. I take a peek at it every now and then. :)

Is there going to be more to it than just the forum?


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