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09 Nov 2013, 12:56 pm

As Dr. Cooper becomes more and more assoicated with Asperger's it makes me wonder:

Will it be good for public perception of AS, or bad?



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09 Nov 2013, 7:29 pm

I am not broken.


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09 Nov 2013, 8:17 pm

I live every day with the knowledge that I am broken.

On a good day, I see someone who's a little broken.

On a bad day, I see someone who is so hopelessly broken that she should not be allowed to live.

On a really bad day, I see someone who is so hopelessly broken that she should not be allowed to live, who gave birth to three daughters who should be sterilized and a son who should be euthanized along with his mother.

Most of the time, it's somewhere in between.


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10 Nov 2013, 2:24 am

auntblabby wrote:
which is worse- being broken or being warped?


I suppose that depends on your definition of "broken" vs "warped".


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10 Nov 2013, 2:28 am

neilson_wheels wrote:
I don't watch the Big Bang so I can't say for sure but this is supposed to be humour is it not? In real life a lot of people seem to view differences they can not understand as "broken". Do the majority of people who watch this program use it to define autistics? I really don't know either.

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Shikari wrote:
Everyone is a little broken, and that's okay.


Fascinating, that's almost exactly what my friend said to me earlier when I told her about this quote. Having thought it over, you're all probably right, a lot of us really are a little broken; I know I am. As long as we have people around willing to help us when things surpass our capacities, like Leonard, there's no reason our brokenness should prevent us from doing and being whatever we want.


The everyone is important here, it's not just about us. Another way to look at it is "No one is perfect."


Hmm, I'm not sure I would agree that literally "everyone" is broken. Almost all the people I know have no deficits that affect them severely enough that they can't do the things they need/want to do; that's how I would define broken, and the large majority of the NT population, from what I can tell, just doesn't seem to fit it. If you can do everything you need to; maintain a family, keep a job, have friends, enjoy a hobby or two, how can you possibly be broken?


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10 Nov 2013, 2:31 am

StarTrekker wrote:
Hmm, I'm not sure I would agree that literally "everyone" is broken. Almost all the people I know have no deficits that affect them severely enough that they can't do the things they need/want to do; that's how I would define broken, and the large majority of the NT population, from what I can tell, just doesn't seem to fit it. If you can do everything you need to; maintain a family, keep a job, have friends, enjoy a hobby or two, how can you possibly be broken?

by those definitions, I guess I am indeed "broken" in that I can't get or keep a job, have a family, etc. at least I still have my aspie meetup buddies to commiserate with :)



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10 Nov 2013, 4:42 am

StarTrekker wrote:
Hmm, I'm not sure I would agree that literally "everyone" is broken. Almost all the people I know have no deficits that affect them severely enough that they can't do the things they need/want to do; that's how I would define broken, and the large majority of the NT population, from what I can tell, just doesn't seem to fit it. If you can do everything you need to; maintain a family, keep a job, have friends, enjoy a hobby or two, how can you possibly be broken?


I would much rather stick to the "no one is perfect" line instead of "everyone is broken".

By the criteria above I would fall into "pretty much broken" but I do not believe that either. If I look around where I live, many can hold down jobs but are either unhappy in their labours or go out to get wasted at the weekend to relieve the boredom. A lot of them put a minimal amount of effort into bringing up their children too.

Other people I know, who would be seen as successful, also have issues to deal with. The stress of maintaining a successful career, clashes in relationships, problems with raising kids and ill health are all there. It's just these issues are hidden from general view.