Some people's compliments

[Oz67]

Some people say that I have Asperger Syndrome, even though I have a history of being diagnosed with PDD-NOS. I guess I can take that as a compliment.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Asperger Syndrome no longer exists. I mean, it does, but "they" don't want us calling it Asperger Syndrome anymore. But I absolutely cannot stand calling it "mild autism" or "high-functioning autism", because some people basically treat us as if we're invisible and they only care about the parents of classic autistic children and all their sob stories about raising one.

 

[Oz67]

Asperger Syndrome no longer exists. I mean, it does, but "they" don't want us calling it Asperger Syndrome anymore. But I absolutely cannot stand calling it "mild autism" or "high-functioning autism", because some people basically treat us as if we're invisible and they only care about the parents of classic autistic children and all their sob stories about raising one.

My diagnosis is now ASD. I am sorry for using outdated terminology, because that is what my diagnosis was historically.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Asperger Syndrome no longer exists. I mean, it does, but "they" don't want us calling it Asperger Syndrome anymore. But I absolutely cannot stand calling it "mild autism" or "high-functioning autism", because some people basically treat us as if we're invisible and they only care about the parents of classic autistic children and all their sob stories about raising one.

During th 50s through 70s we were literally invisible and never diagnosed. Consequently, we had to rely on ourselves to learn how to live in the world. The saddest thing for me was that people seeing my intelligence and academics thought that my social isolation was a choice and I needed no help in that department.

 

[Misty Avich]

It gets confusing because in some countries Asperger's no longer exists but in other countries it still does. I prefer to have a different label to autism, as autism always sounds too serious. If I turned around and said to someone that I'm autistic, they'll probably be very surprised and may not even believe me. But if I said I have Asperger's syndrome or PDD-NOS, they might say "well you are a little quirky".
I just tell people I have ADHD and/anxiety, because both of those are obvious to everyone involved. My anxiety is just who I am, and my ADHD symptoms are quite obvious too, in my behaviour and difficulties with organisation. But autism is more complex with me, it appears more internally, like affects my thoughts more than my social awareness and behaviours.

 

[Levitat0r]

Some people say that I have Asperger Syndrome, even though I have a history of being diagnosed with PDD-NOS. I guess I can take that as a compliment.

Not really, because nobody has a right to hate on autistic people and it's not like "oh, you've got autism lite" is a compliment. And then nobody can fully define what it is, nor what it is precisely that varies so that you wind up with such a varied array of traits, positive and negative. The main thing that matters to me is; normal people detest me, and I'd like to find a place where compatible people congregate. That might, potentially be someplace like here. I don't obsess about the technical details. It's not my profession, and from what I've seen, all the professionals do is run around systemizing the equivalent of prejudice and pretending it's science. They look at you superficially, and assume that defines your mind. It's silly and dangerous. I'm here to make friends, not to pretend I understand how God makes people.

 

[Oz67]

Not really, because nobody has a right to hate on autistic people and it's not like "oh, you've got autism lite" is a compliment. And then nobody can fully define what it is, nor what it is precisely that varies so that you wind up with such a varied array of traits, positive and negative. The main thing that matters to me is; normal people detest me, and I'd like to find a place where compatible people congregate. That might, potentially be someplace like here. I don't obsess about the technical details. It's not my profession, and from what I've seen, all the professionals do is run around systemizing the equivalent of prejudice and pretending it's science. They look at you superficially, and assume that defines your mind. It's silly and dangerous. I'm here to make friends, not to pretend I understand how God makes people.

That actually makes sense. They seemed so nice and very convincing.

 

[Oz67]

It gets confusing because in some countries Asperger's no longer exists but in other countries it still does. I prefer to have a different label to autism, as autism always sounds too serious. If I turned around and said to someone that I'm autistic, they'll probably be very surprised and may not even believe me. But if I said I have Asperger's syndrome or PDD-NOS, they might say "well you are a little quirky".
I just tell people I have ADHD and/anxiety, because both of those are obvious to everyone involved. My anxiety is just who I am, and my ADHD symptoms are quite obvious too, in my behaviour and difficulties with organisation. But autism is more complex with me, it appears more internally, like affects my thoughts more than my social awareness and behaviours.

Although in the future, people will kind of understand what Autism as a spectrum disorder really is.

 

[Levitat0r]

That actually makes sense. They seemed so nice and very convincing.

They tend to be "nice" to each other, but eventually you realize you don't much understand what it is that they're doing. They're always jockeying for position, manipulating each other, and competing for hierarchy. Take the plunge and talk to them. If they're the exception, you win, and if they're a disappointment, you stop deceiving yourself.

 

[Oz67]

They tend to be "nice" to each other, but eventually you realize you don't much understand what it is that they're doing. They're always jockeying for position, manipulating each other, and competing for hierarchy. Take the plunge and talk to them. If they're the exception, you win, and if they're a disappointment, you stop deceiving yourself.

That sounds kind of antisocial.

 

[Levitat0r]

Although in the future, people will kind of understand what Autism as a spectrum disorder really is.

I genuinely hope not, because when man grasps physics that tightly, he annihilates cities. So what will man annihilate when he grasps biology and the human mind? No thank you.

 

[Levitat0r]

That sounds kind of antisocial.

Ask me how many thousands of times I've been rejected to arrive at that opinion, and whether the reaching out involved is social or not, and whether those doing the rejecting are social or not.

 

[Oz67]

Ask me how many thousands of times I've been rejected to arrive at that opinion, and whether the reaching out involved is social or not, and whether those doing the rejecting are social or not.

Because people manipulate each other?

 

[Oz67]

I genuinely hope not, because when man grasps physics that tightly, he annihilates cities. So what will man annihilate when he grasps biology and the human mind? No thank you.

Isn't it good to gain knowledge?

 

[Levitat0r]

Isn't it good to gain knowledge?

Power corrupts, and you only think you have a use for it until you discover the only one who ought to be in charge of it.

 

[Oz67]

Power corrupts, and you only think you have a use for it until you discover the only one who ought to be in charge of it.

That makes more sense.

 

[Au Naturel]

It gets confusing because in some countries Asperger's no longer exists but in other countries it still does. I prefer to have a different label to autism, as autism always sounds too serious. If I turned around and said to someone that I'm autistic, they'll probably be very surprised and may not even believe me. But if I said I have Asperger's syndrome or PDD-NOS, they might say "well you are a little quirky".
I just tell people I have ADHD and/anxiety, because both of those are obvious to everyone involved. My anxiety is just who I am, and my ADHD symptoms are quite obvious too, in my behaviour and difficulties with organisation. But autism is more complex with me, it appears more internally, like affects my thoughts more than my social awareness and behaviours.

Yeah, if you're lucky, autism brings up "Big Bang Theory." (Say ASD-1 and nobody has a clue what you're talking about.) If you are unlucky, it brings up "Rainman," which isn't even autism. Worst case, it brings up a memory of the nonverbal, severely autistic kid in special ed and his meltdowns.

"Aspie" rolls off the tongue so easily.

 

[Au Naturel]

I genuinely hope not, because when man grasps physics that tightly, he annihilates cities. So what will man annihilate when he grasps biology and the human mind? No thank you.

Too late.

Grasping biology is why most of us are alive. Not grasping biology wiped out a third of humanity... a couple of times. Man was perfectly capable of annihilating cities a thousand years ago. Ask Ghengis Khan.

 

[Levitat0r]

Yeah, if you're lucky, autism brings up "Big Bang Theory." (Say ASD-1 and nobody has a clue what you're talking about.) If you are unlucky, it brings up "Rainman," which isn't even autism. Worst case, it brings up a memory of the nonverbal, severely autistic kid in special ed and his meltdowns.

"Aspie" rolls off the tongue so easily.

It probably needs to be a culture unto itself. People have no concept of why people form communities like this. They're generally unaware they're being nasty to you, much less will they bother to pose the question of whether they're the thousandth person showing cruelty. They think that people who complain about being excluded are whiners and attention seekers, because they've never been confronted with a world that feels like a lynch mob simply because their soul has an unsightly mole on its nose or whatever. I guarantee you this is what it feels like to be a racial minority.

 

[Levitat0r]

Too late.

Grasping biology is why most of us are alive. Not grasping biology wiped out a third of humanity... a couple of times. Man was perfectly capable of annihilating cities a thousand years ago. Ask Ghengis Khan.

The point is that people do terrible things with unlimited power. Do you want the same person who can turn a city into glass to master your biology, and then decide what the machinery in your cells does? I don't want to see that day. They'll start making people without frontal lobes, to do all the menial work, and then it will go downhill from there. There's already precedent for attempts at hybridizing people with animals for that purpose, Uruk-Hai style. Man has no limits, and if I were a researcher, I would be very wary of what I chose to work on.