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27 Feb 2007, 10:07 pm

How about we call ourselves normal and label NT's with a syndrome?
Any suggestions?


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27 Feb 2007, 10:21 pm

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27 Feb 2007, 10:28 pm

HAHAHA!! !
That's exactly what I was thinking!!


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27 Feb 2007, 11:03 pm

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Unlike most 'ret*ds', we're actually eloquent enough to voice our concern and disgust at the way we at times are viewed by people and the media (I wonder if the coverage you guys get in the US will ever creep over here?); and so therefore they presume us to be 'fakers' or normal'. Riles me up. Just because some people are diagnosed incorrectly, doesn't mean EVERYONE has been.


The same thing happens to the people you are calling 'ret*ds' when they try to speak up for themselves as a group. Which they are quite capable of doing and do often.


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27 Feb 2007, 11:48 pm

TG wrote:
How about we call ourselves normal and label NT's with a syndrome?
Any suggestions?


Neurotypical disorder has already been defined. See http://isnt.autistics.org/



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28 Feb 2007, 12:16 am

Wow, that looks like something I would have written. The only miss was that he used the still commonly used 19th century belief that bigger brains mean smarter (they don't, that's phrenology). Should've talked more about how people suffering from NT Syndrome heads are sometimes bloated by hot air.



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28 Feb 2007, 12:35 am

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I also wann add, we should come up with a new word other than Asperger **Syndrome**. Syndrome implies that we're a burden or a disease. I'd prefer to call myself Aspergian.


Yup, I'm aspergian or aspie... ;^)... or if I'm in an especially prideful mood, autistic. ;^) Lay it out like it's meant to be...


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28 Feb 2007, 7:35 am

janicka wrote:
ARW_AS wrote:
Tom Cruise - SUCH a bad man! SO HORRID!


Does he actually believe in that Scientology s**t or is he getting money out of it?


Bit of both most likely

anbuend wrote:
ARW_AS wrote:
Unlike most 'ret*ds', we're actually eloquent enough to voice our concern and disgust at the way we at times are viewed by people and the media (I wonder if the coverage you guys get in the US will ever creep over here?); and so therefore they presume us to be 'fakers' or normal'. Riles me up. Just because some people are diagnosed incorrectly, doesn't mean EVERYONE has been.


The same thing happens to the people you are calling 'ret*ds' when they try to speak up for themselves as a group. Which they are quite capable of doing and do often.


Hence why I put it in quotations - it's a harsh term I don't personally use or believe in myself. I meant severely disabled (people that can't talk and whatnot) before you start jumping down my throat. A nitpicker if I've ever seen one.