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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Autistic Teen (How can I Talk to My Parents)? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 8:06 am
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Replies: 17
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| Here's an interesting insight for you: "After looking at the latest three studies led by researchers from Yale, Columbia and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, I have to believe, based on their data, that the genetic link that they have found in regards to autism is real and that it could le... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I may not have Asperger's. |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 7:11 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,417
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| I shouldn't let anyone else get me down, but she DID also diagnose me with Major Depressive Disorder - Recurrent, so if this makes me depressed that just means I don't know where I fit in. So, after TWO questionable diagnoses , you're allowing this person to determine YOUR state of mind simply beca... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I may not have Asperger's. |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 10 Jun 2011, 7:01 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,417
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Aldran wrote: Finally, where mental disorders and such are concerned, only YOU are you.
Uh... Autism and Asperger's Syndrome are not mental disorders. They're neurological.
BIG difference.
Different hardware/hard-wiring, not a software malfunction. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2008, 7:11 pm
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Replies: 108
Views: 7,965
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| 2ukenkerl Okay, I see the source of confusion. :) Like many Americans (a legacy of your education system and media, I suspect), you apparently view everything through the lens of US-centric insularity and react accordingly, assuming that to be the only possible context for the discussion. I don't ha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2008, 3:20 am
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Replies: 108
Views: 7,965
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| Hi marieclaire :D I think the real issue causing confusion here is different interpretations of terms like equality of outcome and social engineering . Some of that different perception is due to nothing more than different perspectives. We look at the same situation from two different angles and en... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2008, 1:56 am
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Replies: 108
Views: 7,965
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| Hi Cas and JR :D Thanks. I neither expect nor demand that anyone agrees with me. Nor do I even expect my ideas to be read or considered. Freedom of speech is just that: the right to voice an opinion. It's not the right to be heard, read, listened to or agreed with. It's the old story... "your freedo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2008, 12:56 am
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Replies: 108
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| 2ukenkerl, Who are you identifying as "they"? You make no mention that I can see -- you apparently jumped to some conclusions of your own that triggered an adverse emotional reaction. Meanwhile I sit here wondering what on earth you're ranting about. I'm not questioning your motives or assertions, j... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 8:52 pm
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Replies: 108
Views: 7,965
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| The problem with social engineering and equality of outcome is that, in the end, they don't work. They can't, if you think it through to its logical conclusion. It means that everyone has to have the same outcome, which inevitably means that no-one can be better off than anyone else in any aspect of... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 7:30 pm
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Replies: 108
Views: 7,965
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| Cas, What you're talking about tends not to be what most people view as political correctness — it's more in the realm of equality of opportunity and social justice , which are admirable and highly desirable. The typical PC advocate, in my own experience, is more prone to promoting equality of outco... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are there any aspies that are NOT politically correct? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2008, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 108
Views: 7,965
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| Political correctness is just another form of emotional blackmail . I'm not susceptible to any form of blackmail, but especially not by this sort of manipulative nonsense. From my own experience and observation of Aspies, I'd have thought the question would be "Are there any Aspies who ARE political... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How long ago did you get a diagnosis? |
| JohnCounsel |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2008, 8:11 pm
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Replies: 36
Views: 3,670
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I was diagnosed in December 2002, 6 years after being misdiagnosed as mild Bipolar, mild OCD.
Asperger's Syndrome was not officially added to the register until 1994, so no formal diagnoses were made prior to that.
John |
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