Dont you think "studies" of aspergurs are discrimi

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Well they found that I had small but important differences on chromosome 15 but it is not picked up on by normal genetic testing. It can only be found with a specialist test. I have a web address of what the study is about. www.psychgenetics.com/pt/re/psychgen/ fulltext.00041444-200409000-00002.htm -

The thing that gets me is when they talk about Aspies lacking imagination and creative play. I was writing stories and reading them to my mother before I could form proper characters. I read at two. Was writing at four. I wrote stories from then right up till now - I am *always* writing. I had stories published in school magazines, I was straight A in English and did AS English a year early - grade A, in which my coursework was a short story.

I also find it hard to do certain things because I see every single possible outcome :S

I don't know if it applies to all aspies...but it always upsets me when I see that claim.


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All you need for a double-blind study is to hire someone to collect data for you who isn't sure what it is they're testing. Why would AS make that difficult? It's not a well-known condition, and we don't have particularly many obvious tells.


Don't mistake something you read on the internet for actual scientific research, no matter how good it sounded otherwise. It was just shorthand for things like how aspies don't turn their heads reflexively when their names get called etc. A scientist who wanted to actually use a term like "common sense" in a research article would first have to operationally define the term, and then the data he gave would only apply within the boundaries of the definition, not to all the ways everyone uses the phrase "common sense."


That's couched a little more negatively than I'd've put it, but that's pretty good. Scientists don't just study any anomalous behavior that catches their interest, they study problems they can fix, because they might actually be able to get grants or make money that way. Notice that research grants are preferable to earning money from your research, because you actually get the money before you do the research! NEAT! But until there's a Niftiness Foundation that gives scientists millions of dollars to research awesome cool stuff, things will continue as they always have.

Mainstream Asperger's research is just barely out of its first decade. As research fields go, it's still a baby. They're going to study it as a problem first, and studies of the benefits will grow out of these studies. That's just how these matters go. I don't see any evidence that AS is being targeted for disparagement by the scientific community any more than any other mental condition. We're just getting the first studies done now, they will be wrong like all first studies are, new studies will be done showing new or even contradictory evidence, thesis and antithesis will lead to synthesis, there will be more studies with better working models, and so on. Again, this is just how it goes.

Science is a slow process of trial and error. Don't hate the pioneers for being dumbutts, even if they are. After all, if not for them, the phrase "Asperger's Syndrome" wouldn't exist, this site wouldn't exist, and we would all still be alone, thinking we were the only ones on the planet who think as we do.