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I think it is fair to say that you do have some sort of issue, but saying that AS doesn't exist is not a popular move, and, as you can see already, irks a lot of us. With a disorder that comes arm in arm with sensitivity, choosing your words wisely may be a good way to carry on here. A look through the index at some other subjects may help give you a picture of what goes on.

Icarus, this guy hasn't got a patch on you

Not to mention that people with AS are attention-seeking for pity. Perhaps you should learn what the term invisible disablity means. Not everyone needs to be sitting in a wheelchair, to have disablities you know.

AS peoples are not pity seeking in my experience. They just want people to treat them with the same respect as every one else and let them get on with their lives in the best way they can.

AS real? Well I have a bunch of quirks, some of them kind of specific and clearly not run of the mill. How could someone who has never met me predict that along with lining up coins, I would have had a habit of greeting complete strangers by launching into a monologue about my topic of interest instead of saying hello? That I would engage in repetitive motor movements, and have struggled with figures of speech in child-hood while still having issues differentiating between literal and figurative utterances? That all of this would accompany difficulties understanding non-verbal communication, along with performance deficits in the same?

Honestly, if there was no such thing as AS, how would it be plausible for so many of my personal quirks, to be wrapped up neatly in a bow and found as a predictable cluster across such an otherwise heterogeneous group of persons?

heh. .

I feel this way a lot. ..

To someone familiar with ASDs, Aspies often stand out like blinking lights. My parents hadn't spent five minutes with my roommate before realizing she had AS. There are definite, noticeable differences between someone with AS and someone who is just shy. The difference may be qualitative, rather than quantitative, but it is there.

Also, as someone else mentioned, the problems with social interaction is just the start of AS. There are sensory processing, motor, and language problems that are included as well.

to some members on here,they might not have the sensory issues but have a social problem as their main difficulty,so they relate AS to a,"social dyslexia",rather than to a closer relation of the kanner form.

problem is [as shown already] it's not good? to expect all aspergans to be so far from autism and impairment,aspies can range from being very typically kanner like to the social dyslexia type-some are lower functioning enough to require residential placement and to live without coming to harm,others can live on their own with no support needed.

OP should perhaps read up on the various experiences of people who are from all over the spectrum,including those with moderate and severe AS,and perhaps think about why so many people hate their struggles [whether ASD related or not] before assuming patheticness,could it be having....no support? no understanding? mental health problems?
debts? abusive or drunken relatives? many things,can cause the seeking of sympathy.