who gives a s**t if you have aspergers?

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Do you real care anymore if you have it? I mean either you do or you don't. You are who you are do you have to let society label you and throw your hand in the air declaring aspie power? I've done a pretty good job most my life never telling anyone I had it unless they were a good friend and even then they didn't give a s**t or make a big deal about it. I would tell my friend a day later and would completely forget what I told him. So come one don't make it a big deal or people will think your ret*d if they don't already think it. I'm 22 years old and I could never be happier

It's not about letting society stamp your forehead ASD. Autism doesn't completely define people, but it does play a large hand in our relationships and interactions with the world. I don't think most people are looking for a banner to band together and march under.(seems a bit unaspie ) The only reason I would speak up personally is when encountering someone promoting some uninformed autism=ret*d equation, or thinking I am somehow diminished because I may experience the world a bit differently.

I care I have Aspergers. I don't care what others think of me - or if they reject me. While it may sting it would not be the first nor the last time I got rejected based on my cognitive differences. With or without disclosure.

Aspie power? Your post comes off hard and judging and has raised my hackles. What is it to you if I want to disclose to a friend that I have Aspergers? Or a boss or a boyfriend or who ever I choose. If your life is so happy and you have no need to disclose - I am happy for you. But we are not all so lucky to have a happy and easy going life. My struggles are very apparent.

Disclosure leads to educating people who are clueless. That is the main reason I disclose.

My life - my right to disclose. Your life - your right not to.

Full of yourself much?

The one thing that pisses me off more than anything is someone who basically says "Suck it up," which is precisely what you're saying in this comment. I have heard that crap too many times to not say anything about it. Maybe you're getting along just fine and dandy and are able to shunt your Asperger's to the side, but fyi...I was just diagnosed officially not too long ago, and I'm in the process of accepting it. Don't tell me to suck it up.

Interesting. So you have managed to push you AS to the side. You probably have a extremely minor form of AS or you can see your AS in your normal life. Either way, I am sorry for you. You are now more normal compared to people with more serious form of AS.

Well Autism is a spectrum that varies greatly from both ends of diagnosis, it's pretty awesome you can push aside your's. We all have reasons why we choose to inform people of our diagnosis or not to, mine is simple, not to be hip or needy but to make that much more convenient for people to understand me. About that that bold statement "Do you real care anymore if you have it?" well I can tell you it that it sucked my mother's energy and wallet to get me to speak (non verbal for sometime) lead to some of the minor inconveniences that got my father to split up with my mother. So honestly you could get away with no one caring if you are really are "higher functioning" but autism doesn't just include these forums ( Aspergers and high functioning autism ) but also those who can't function or speak! For a diagnosis so wide spread like the christian faith we really do seem to split when we identify our-selves we more often forget the minority of those under the spectrum that are considered lower functioning (or non-functioning). So yes my family does really take this seriously more so than others cause they saw the lower end of it (not the bottom though). Yup people can and will care if you do have Asperger's or Autism if they can spot obvious shortcoming or causes problems that wouldn't occur if that said individual didn't have it in the first place.



PS: OP has typo it should be Really not real.... yea i spent a good 5 minutes rereading this post.

I get it... the original poster got the diagnosis years ago and it's old news. But for some of us, we have lost jobs that meant something to us, or worse still, were not renewed on contract silently because of it. In my case disclosure was so hard because I had no family or friends near to make the process easier... and some did not understand. I would love some in person assistance and support but have nothing in my area. Sure, I may have hfa and not be extremely visible. Just saying that the whole disclosure process is not always so wonderful, and it sometimes is necessary. It, like any other divulgence of important information, has to be done with the other person in mind too.