Do you like urbandictionary's take on aspergers syndrome?

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... 20syndrome?
However, many NTs have learned to compensate for their disabilites and are able to communicate with those on the Autistic Spectrum succesfully.

Thats my favourite bit

Hmm, when people start saying "using it as an excuse," I just tune them out.

The definition quoted in the OP is not insightful, accurate, clever, witty, or funny. It is simply someone fulminating about Asperger's Syndrome.

Also, count me as one of those who tried very hard to succeed and managed to get nowhere repeatedly without having a diagnosis. I did get called "stupid" and "lazy" a lot while I was growing up, however.

That urban dictionary entry was a rant, not a definition. The author's self loathing projected outwardly. Surely there's a disorder that defines that type of reaction to one's ailments?

Knowing I have AS has made a big difference to me. It's helped me to better understand why I do what I do and navigate through rough waters more easily. If I had known sooner, I think I would have been better able to tell myself to take a step back during emotional outbursts and avoided certain bad consequences. It's also nice to have found people I can relate to which never would have happened otherwise. I didn't know where to look

I hate it. I find it altogether offensive. For openers, I am no "whiny, emo teenager." I am a grandmother, and I've known all my life there was something different about me that others didn't like.

I do agree that disorders can be overdiagnosed, and that the ovediagnosed illnesses can come in fad-like clusters. Once someone is discovered to have a disorder, and it explains EVERYTHING they've always wondered about themselves, there is a tendency to start looking for that same disorder in other people who might have some of the same signs.

And anything can be used as an excuse. As a child in second grade, it was discovered that repeated ear and throat infections had left me with a 50% hearing loss, which surgery ended up correcting to 20%. I now have trouble with discerning consonants from each other, and also with background noise--but then it turns out, the background noise thing is also part of AS.

In the meantime, did I use hearing loss as an excuse to ignore directions and then when confronted, say, "I didn't hear you"? Heck, yes. There were of course times when I did not hear, but there were others when I just played the hearing loss to my advantage.

The rage-a-holic here could have been misdiagnosed AS, all caught up in the flurry when his relative came up autistic, and was reacting to the bandwagon mentality.

He's still a jerk, though.

His article is like saying you can only be taken seriously as an amputee if you're a paraplegic. Of course, as everyone knows, if you're missing <4 limbs, you have no right to b***h about how it might be harder to do everything normal people take for granted.

It is satire. Not very good satire. But I can't take it too seriously. Especially since the Urban Dictionary tends towards the snarky anyway. The fact that emo kids would get together to "invent" aspieness sort of contradicts the whole social obliviousness thing.

I understand that site is supposed to be funny, so it is not like I am offended or mad about the definition. I do not think it is funny though. I think it would have been funny if the author had decided to say something really stereotypical and silly like,

Cannot be bothered to define right now... too busy looking at lol cats.. or maybe trains or gears or traps or... oh.. how about I cannot define this now because my hands are too busy flapping? Some stereotype we are all supposed to have... I can be awful with humor, but I hope you all get the point.

I think they could have done a better job with the humor is what I mean.

I will shut up and move along now...

I think it's just sad, but I worry that people may take it too seriously.