Looking for suggestions for book titled Asperger's Disorder

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Just curious here. How is it that you've known so many aspies? Looking back over the places and the years, I can recall a few people I've known that were probably aspies, but I couldn't say I've known a lot of aspies, except here. That and one wonderful daughter.

I don't know too many people at all, so anything that's rare, I wouldn't run into very often.

I thought I was the only person in the world that enjoyed Yeats. Nice to know somebody else appreciates real quality.

I have a really distant cousin that is a DXed aspie and I suspect a family tree full of them. I have a strong feeling that two aspie family's intermarried, which would be my great grandparents on my Dad's side. Each family had a lot of kids and the two familys married them all off between them. Those that didn't never married at all. The next door neighbor kid is also DXed as an aspie. So another reason I had no way of really knowing how strange I was, I was surrounded by strangeness. I consider myself lucky in that sense. It still didn't insulate me from the harsh reality's of the world, but in some ways I was allowed to grow, where others of us weren't. My Dad had his obsessions and I was there to go on them too. We never really connected till way late in life, but we had a bond, we just didn't know it had a a name. He was different then I, just like we're all different here, I just got to see it (the difference and it sometimes was a clash) up close and personal.

My official DX is Bipolar, not my first. It fit/s but didn't cover all the bases, I can't see it in my family tree. Aspie is written all over it.

Umm never actually read much Keats. But he is often quoted in a favorite book of mine and Crazy Jane is just someone you don't forget in quotes. What a wonderful character he created.

I don't think this is a ridiculous question. I actually see the face of Asperger's changing. I work with lots of kids on the spectrum. Am a person on the spectrum and own a kid on the spectrum. I see kids that I feel are on the higher end of functioning with Asperger's. The DSM-IV is going to have to change to accommodate them. Not even to mention that the criteria are not wholely accurate and need to be of broader spectrum. So, I see that the definition of Asperger's will encompass these quirks. Considering that the manifestations can be of as great a variety as the people who have it, perhaps it will reflect that there are 100 possibilities for these manifestations and any combination of 5 or more qualify. Rather than the current thinking of needing to hit 5 out of 6 (or whatever it is).



I think this is a misconception. It's not purely antisocial behaviour for the sake of antisocialness in and of itself. It's the lack of skills to be successfully social. It's an inability to process the different types of input in socialisation into a cohesive reaction. Now, kidnapping people and chopping them into bits with the absurd idea that you are bettering the world, that's antisocial. Lack of empathy? It's not a lack of empathy, it's just an inability to care about things that don't involve yourself. I find it difficult to get all worked up about things that don't concern me in any way. I also find it difficult to empathise with situations that I don't understand. It's difficult to put yourself in one's shoes when you haven't met the situation.



I don't think my husband is sad due to lack of emotional responsivity. I can be quite emotionally responsive at times. Of course, I also need my space and my own time to do my own thing and pursue my own obsessions. We have learned to not drive each other crazy over the years. I'm sure there are things that bother him on occasion. He's annoyed by my inability to just turn on a smile and look amazingly gorgeous just because he has a camera in his hand. He has two built for speed supermodel looking daughters that do this quite well, however, so I'm not sure I need to be bothered. I know that it bothers him that I am immensely uncomfortable in certain social situations, but I usually just cling to him and try to not be over sensitised. I try extra hard to not be grouchy and he tries extra hard to pay attention to me and not wander too far out of my sight. Loving someone means learning how to deal with everything about them and he is more than accomplished at this most of the time.

I'll avoid that acronym.

Following up on our solicitation for content suggestions for our upcoming medical textbook on Asperger's Disorder (we've given extensive discussion already regarding nomenclature Asperger Syndrome, disorder autistic spectrum etc ) We'd like to query the group, -those who have had direct personal or family experience - as to what any of you may feel is most important to emphasize or clarify with respect to the most important common misunderstandings. In our work, we often find that it is those affected with a condition orloved ones dealing with the condition may teach us the most. The book is filled with scienctific facts that we would like to compliment with an opportunity to clarify for our readers how to understand what its like.

We're not broken in need of fixing. we're different in need of acceptance