AS as a religion

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When AS was dropped from the DSM last December, many were crying out against the blasphemy and heresy of this act. But why is this? I would think people would be glad that AS had been denounced and that their diagnoses didn't exist, just like being freed from heavy chains. Instead, aspies all over the world want to burn the people who decided to drop AS from the DSM at the stake.

Is it because you spent a lot of time and money on something that all this time didn't exist? I know I'm angry about that too.

Or is it more? Is it the sense of detachment that makes you angry? In the same sense that people believe that if they pray to God and go to church that good things will come into their life, people believe that only with the aspie label can they receive preferential treatment and accomodations anywhere they go.

Regardless, Aspergers has developed into a religion, and I wouldn't be surprised if there will be people on the street holding up signs saying "BELIEVE IN ASPERGERS".

I am a non-believer, and thus that is why people on here want to throw stones at me.

*facepalm*

It wasn't dropped, they took that diagnosis out and broadened it to Autism Spectrum Disorder. It's still technically there, just under a different name.

Okay, I'd like to see any evidence you'd provide, dear OP. This is just a little difficult to grasp: a neurological condition becoming a religion.

In that case, I'd become a NT because of Atheism...

/sarcasm

Does the "Church of Asperger's"(tm) perform weddings in Las Vegas?

Right.


If they defined , say, diabetes out of existence tomorrow diabetics wouldnt be slightest bit bothered.

It wouldnt matter to them that they could longer get teatment for the illness. It wouldnt matter that they would end up dying in agony. Because diabetics would never make their condition into a 'religion'. They would happily die if the medical community just defined their condition out of existence.

Same with cancer, and emphasema, and AIDS, and leprosy.

Hell...even cold suffers and folks with tooth decay wouldnt care. IF Nyguil and robatussin vanished from the shelves cold sufferers wouldnt care.

No one would care if their teeth started falling out.

If the AMA says 'tooth decay doesnt exist" then tooth ache sufferers would all just suck it in because they would never even THINK of turning tooth decay "into a religion".

^ Thank you.

Also, taking something too seriously is what will get the stones thrown at you.

You are obviously missing the point. The point is that it does exist; not giving it a name doesn't mean that it's suddenly nonexistant, and the problem with not acknowledging that it exists means that people who need help and services to get a job or live successfully now no longer have access to what they need because their disorder no longer has a name. That's the reason so many people are upset about the AS diagnosis being dropped. Also, explain to me how you can possibly "not believe" in something that has been objectively scientifically proven to exist? That's like saying you don't believe germs exist just because you can't see them with the naked eye. It's an ignorant way to behave. If you really feel that way, you should probably change your status from "Not sure if I have it or not" to "Neurotypical" as you obviously must be sure you don't have it if you don't even think it's real.

I could understand why the removal of the AS label could bother some of them but I'm sure that it's called something else now and it's criteria still exist.