06 Jul 2006, 1:29 pm
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06 Jul 2006, 1:59 pm
Yep.I remember when I first told my friends in the 6th grade.You know what some of their questions were?
"Is it contagious?"
"Are you going to die from it?"
"Did you say that you had ASPARAGUS Syndrome?"
And then there were time when I came across the internet people making fun of Asperger Syndrome.
-SpaceCase 
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28 Jul 2006, 9:04 pm
F5c_wZ3_414e_X5 wrote:
I meet new people. I communicate with them. They say: Your communication style ir very weird, relax, you speak like your are very tense. I say: That's how I always speak, if I had to speak like you, that would be unatural and difficult to me. They ask: Why? I say: Because I have Asperger's, and the communicating style of those people who have it may seem slightly different from usual. They ask: What is Asperger's, can you tell me about it more? I tell them. Then they say one of these possibles:
1) This is total non sense, people make up that Asperger's, because it is easier to blame all their problems on some syndrome than to sort them out.
2) Yes, yes now it is very fashionable to have all kinds of mental problems (even though I tell them that Asperger's isn't a mental illness).
3) Such thing as Asperger's doesn't exist because I never heard of it.
4) You are pretending to be someone, you try to be someone you are not and pretend to be different from everyone else.
What do you think about this? Does it happen to you?
1) This is total non sense, people make up that Asperger's, because it is easier to blame all their problems on some syndrome than to sort them out.
2) Yes, yes now it is very fashionable to have all kinds of mental problems (even though I tell them that Asperger's isn't a mental illness).
3) Such thing as Asperger's doesn't exist because I never heard of it.
4) You are pretending to be someone, you try to be someone you are not and pretend to be different from everyone else.
What do you think about this? Does it happen to you?
F5c,
Here's what I tell them when I come across that:
"I have this tic called Aspergerger's syndrome. I can bore you to tears rambling on and on about it or I can leave you to Google it"
The more open-minded will ask Q's but the rest of the audience have the option of looking it up on the 'net. Either way, it sure shuts them up pretty fast
28 Jul 2006, 9:40 pm
