Faking autism and Faking aspergers

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http://www.gettingthetruthout.org

what the hell was that?

The URL that 2ukenkerl was looking for.

sorry,
2ukenkerl,
meant another WPer/who posted it first-as her name is now revealed it helps the user spread their problem/hate.

oh that must be anbuend, at first i thought it was a site mocking people with diabilities. sorry for laughing it just caught me off guard

I came across the site very early on, just after I first heard about AS. I very nearly gave up looking at it, in total disgust at how it portrayed autism... until I noticed her T-shirt.

How is she faking it? I don't think autism0 was pointing the finger at her.

Yes, that is how I knew that the person who said they had been diagnosed with AS was lying. They copied a few things about me but the rest of it was very NT. That person does have something wrong mentally though and maybe it is easier for them to pretend its AS than the real thing.

Thank you for explaining

I am clear about this now.

I once met a person online who claimed he had been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, who actually didn't.

He did have a special interest which was Japanese culture, and I got on well with him in that I listened to his anecdotes about his girlfriend and the stuff that he does in Japan. He knew a lot about Japanese culture, and I was able to engage in such conversation as I was interested in Japan to a degree as well. He said that he was half Japanese-half American, and that his mother got raped in America at 18 so he never got to meet his father. He then said his mother gave him up for adoption early on to a Chinese-Malaysian man in Queensland because she was too mentally traumatized from the rape and was unable to look after him. It was here in which he was "given" an Anglo-Saxon name. He said he's thinking of becoming a businessman in selling cars. He also said that a "scoutman" (headhunter for pornographic films in Japan) wanted to pay him 200,000 Yen to feature in a Japanese porn shot, coz his Eurasian appearance was considered very attractive to Japanese audiences. He bitched to me about his girlfriend was selfish because she was unable to drive him to the barber (for a haircut) on his birthday, despite the fact that he can drive himself.

HOWEVER, I spoke to his girlfriend who told me that he was faking his identity the whole time. He was actually a Caucasian Australian from a country Victorian town who dyed his hair brown and claimed to be mixed blood. She showed me his REAL Birth Certificate and his REAL driver's license which showed his Anglo Saxon name. She knew that he was faking his identity coz when she wanted to ask him further details about his family, real identity, or his exploits in Japan, he'd get very irate and tell her to shut up, like he has something to hide. She happened to meet a few of his other friends in Melbourne (by checking his mobile phone), and they told her that he was just a regular Australian with none of that rape-story behind it. She obtained the contact details of his REAL family that live in a country Victorian town and his dad was laughing, saying that he was putting up a "big show".

This guy doesn't know that she knows that he's faking it. She predicts that if she were to be upfront about this whole "half-Japanese" facade, then he may become crazy and suicidal and hurt himself.

I was very grateful for the girl for telling me about all of this, because as an Aspie, I have a pet hate for dealing with phonies who take advantage of my Aspie trustworthiness and innate naivety, and I didn't wish to waste any further time talking to people like this. I was extremely angry that he was lying to me the whole time, knowing that I had Asperger Syndrome. But at the same time, I realize that he does have some sort of delusion with his identity, and is so fixated on living a lie, and that he needs SERIOUS psychiatric/psychological counselling.

I therefore suspect that he has some sort of severe personality disorder, "Borderline Personality Disorder" or "Dissociative Identity Disorder" perhaps?!?!

It could just be that he is a regular person who thinks it is fun to adopt a fake identity online.

If he does have any of those, it's not his fault is it what he did? But I still wouldn't accept that behavior out of anyone nor put up with it.

If someone was lying to me about themselves and their personal lives and it turned out it was all fake and the person was actually a schizophrenic, not their fault what they did because maybe they really did think what they are saying is true because they are that delusional. I wouldn't call it a lie they did because they believe it themselves. Same as with DID, they have different personalities and don't realize they are doing it and have no memory of being someone else. Some are aware of it though but to them it's all real, not a lie.

No, his faking of his identity is going to a deeper level. He believes his lies so much that he actually believes that he is half-Japanese, and anybody who questions about his past or confronts his identity is essentially "destroying his essence".

I personally believe he has a Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder, and while I was initially very angry that he lied to me despite knowing that I have AS, I acknowledge that serious uptaking of a false persona is typical of such disorders and I should not take it personally, as he is also lying to lots of other people in person, including Psychiatrists.

Now that I think about it, I am more insulted that he claims that he has Asperger Syndrome, coz then other NTs who aren't really aware of ASDs will gain a *false* impression of AS, from a person who doesn't actually have the diagnosis and is pretending to.

What is this "sympathy" people speak of? i.e. Fakers of autism are allegedly getting help and sympathy as a result of faking.

Are they? How?

I sure haven't got much sympathy and understanding from most of my immediate family or society in general.

If the fakers are managing to get what the real autistic people can't, then it just makes it even more unfair.

My sister showed her deep sympathy and caring for my diagnosis by calling me "ret*d."

She is, by the way, 38 years old.

I get the feeling I'm among those "fakers" who's faking it to myself. Even though I seem to share many similarities with autistics, I get the eerie feeling that something in the direction of schizo* would be more accurate considering the considerable overlap in schizo's negative symptoms and autism, and my seeming neurotypical insight and sensibilities alongside alleged eccentricities. Of course, it could be that I don't have anything besides the "weirdo personality disorder", haha!