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Jamesy
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12 Sep 2015, 7:26 am

Last night some i vaguely know said to in my local bar "you have classic aspergers"

What does classic Aspergers translate too?



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12 Sep 2015, 7:36 am

At a guess, perhaps stereotypical Asperger's? No idea.



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12 Sep 2015, 7:39 am

Maybe he meant that he can tell because it's very obivous from your symptoms?



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12 Sep 2015, 7:43 am

What are some very obvoious symptoms?



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12 Sep 2015, 7:47 am

Dunno.
Maybe stimming and social awkwardness...

Or maybe he didn't mean you have Asperger's, just that you act like someone with Asperger's.



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12 Sep 2015, 8:03 am

Isn't there any other place you could go to, James, besides a bar?



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12 Sep 2015, 8:15 am

'Classic Asperger's' means much the same as 'typical/stereotypical Asperger's'. It's rather like telling someone that they're a 'typical Piscean' etc ... In other words, it's virtually meaningless. The person who told you this has probably watched a few episodes of 'The Big Bang Theory', or read articles in the gutter press, and believes that that makes him/her an expert on autism.

It takes no account of you as a unique person.

Yuk. Find another bar.