why are they so many AS fakers?

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why are they so many AS fakers?

as having AS has its ups and downs but people should not fake having it.

<----- Diagnosed by Clinical Psychologist who's written several articles on Asperger's Syndrome and Autism.

<---- Professionaly diagnosed by both a psychiatrist and a psychologist with a lot of experience on the subject.

im asking why are they so many fakers?

How can you tell who the fakers are?

we con't but im asking why do they claim they have AS when they don't

How do you know they don't have it?

This is going round in circles

Who is they?

Could you be more specific? Who are the fakers. And congrats on your Psy.D at the age of 15, I'm very impressed.

why are there idiots who think peopel woudl fake autism.

Lol

I used to go on about fakers a lot myself but I have come to realise that a lot of people with Aspergers come across as more NT than me; either because they were just born like it and their AS is milder or they have learned how to emulate NTness

I wouldn't be able to do it even if I tried - my brain's not flexible enough

It also has a lot to do with me seeing our culture as being predominantly NT so I tend to see people who suck up all the cultural norms as being NT/NT-like - but this is inaccurate as there's no reason why people with Aspergers shouldn't be keen on the host culture.

By the law of averages there have to be some fakers

Human beings tend to lie a lot - it's a default setting for the majority!

telling lies is not like faking autism. lieing is hard. faking autism would be much harder I think.

I do know someone who's faked having AS. She's admitted this a few years after doing so.

In her case, she faked it because it was easier than coping with having been bullied and neglected. She heard about Asperger's, it matched some of the symptoms she'd developed as a result of how she'd been treated (and she was already introverted before that), and she started trying to make herself into that image because that was easier on her than coping with her past.

She did eventually get therapy, go on medication for anxiety and depression, and mostly deal with it, and then say that no, she's not autistic, she just is not normal and does have issues that include some similar to people on the spectrum.

However, it comes down to, its sometimes easier to have a reason to be the way you are, even if its not accurate, than to cope with being the way you are without the reason of being autistic.

I really don't think that there are many people who fake though. There are people who think they have it and are sub-clinical, but I don't think that's even as large as people tend to assume.

Well from my own point of view I've been on an Asperger forum and the experiences I've had from interacting with others on there was often practically no different to interacting with NTs - so whether people fake or not, many who identify as Asperger come across as very NT-like to me personally. So either my definition of what it was to have Aspergers was faulty or many people with Aspergers do a good emulation of NT. Either way, many people on forums seem very generic to me.

AS is a spectrum disorder and therefore an almost infinite degree of impairment and empowerment. There will always be people so desperate for attention as to pretend they suffer from something or another, however that in itself sounds like a disorder of it's own.