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04 May 2011, 6:39 pm

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Perhaps the problem is not only in NTs - after all, with so many aspies saying "it is not a disease nor a disability, it is a difference!", it is natural that many NTs will think "these people does not have any problem, only an unusual personality".


Yes, I agree with this, I actually do have a problem with Aspies using this wording so strongly. I think being proud of who we are is all well and good, but denying the problems we do face is not going to help anyone.

Asperger's IS a disability and to deny this in my opinion is misinformed. However, that doesn't mean that Asperger's can't also be an ability - to see things differently, or perhaps have unusual strengths. I think it's problematic that people can't see that Asperger's can be both - it doesn't have to be only one or the other.


I don't believe it's a disability we where only disabled by mainstream education. Why any parent would want to put an ASD child through conventional schooling is beyond me , the same @ ( and I include the teachers their) are still doing what they do best :wink: and will continue to do so for many many years to come . ( my Mom is a teachers aid)

As odious as home schooling may be it's the breeding ground of the KKK (Kitchen Klassroom Konservatives I would have preferred this option wouldn't you ?

Sensory issues (disbaility ) etc aren't aspie that's tbi related.


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04 May 2011, 8:05 pm

Sensory issues are highly correlated with autistic spectrum disorders. It would help if you cited any kind of evidence at all that it's not related to ASDs.



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05 May 2011, 2:58 am

Thebigrage wrote:
As far as people picking on us for social flaws and such that we cannot control, Pardon my french but Who gives a F**k what some thick skulled ignoramous thinks about who we are they cannot tell us what we know or don't know they don't have it so they cannot judge it and if they do just ignore it because it is not true and they dont know what they are talking about.


Some of those "thick skulled ignoramouses" control our paychecks, so their opinion of us happens to matter quite a bit.



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09 May 2011, 2:17 pm

In my country people rather don't know what AS is but those who know this, do base their knowledge of it on what they see on TV so many of their assumptions as for what it looks like are fake (even one psychologist I told once about my suspitions - she was just someone I knew personally, not someone to whom I turned for help - said she saw nothing about autism about me and she was a young woman who should have been taught about it). I often see on boards that parents describe their kids' behaviors in reference to their school or peers-related problems and the posters' replies are like: maybe he/she has AS? A couple of years ago there was nothing like that on the Polish net so I guess people get more and more educated about AS. Though some of their assumptions have nothing to do with what reality is like.


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