Article I found funny sorry to offend. Sorry!

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Disorders created due to the internet some real funny ones. IMO. Then I saw #1. I find Cracked as a funny site and some of there articles do pick on Asperger's but IMO it's all in good fun (or at least that's how I see it). Again sorry to offend.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17522_6- ... et_p2.html

#1 is AS according to the site, but the nuance they place about it is: "This rarely diagnosed but often claimed disorder..." and "People cringe when they hear this term because they know that a large number of the teenagers claiming Asperger's are, in fact, merely dicks."

No need to be sorry, esspecially me. Got PDD-NOS .

Funny as most of the time on Cracked.com

No need to be sorry. Cracked is wickedly funny! I go there at least once a day.

Well, technically, all of the entries are Internet-specific versions of real personality disorders (like Internet Explosive Disorder, in which a person who would never be diagnosed with Intermittent Explosive Disorder in real life suddenly starts blowing up on forums); Internet AS is kind of the 'Net equivalent of AS for people who are perfectly normal - as long as they are face-to face. Once they're deprived of nonverbal cues, they lose all sense of theory of mind. And then they don't want to accept any responsibility for failing to read into the words they way they would any other time (and the way most of us who really are on the spectrum at least try to learn to do), so they claim they're just plain aspie, in ways most of us really wouldn't. Unfortunately, that seems to get us labeled as "@$$holes" across most of the 'Net, and even convinces some folks that since these jerks aren't really AS, that therefore AS doesn't actually exist, but is instead a creation of jerks who want an excuse to keep being jerks.

No offense taken, although this article didn't make me laugh the way most of them do...

Yeah!

I am torn - on the one hand, it is kind of funny but on the other hand it is not that funny but on the OTHER hand [my wife is part Manx, it also works for Sicilians] it is not offensive [though such stuff can be].

On the OTHER other hand - I am not Manx or Sicilian, just an academic - I am terribly tempted to compile a list of all the misrepresentations, humorous or no, intended or no, and the ways in which it cold have been improved [I am grading it at a solid B but not too far from the B- mark].

For example, I think the writer totally misstates what trolls are about.

Holy I need to go on Cracked more often LOL.

Mir

I think I have quite possibly all of the above except sob story BS. When I tell a story it's just a goddamn story to explain a point because (in the words of Avenged Sevenfold) "No one can save me and you know I don't want the attention".