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12 May 2010, 8:59 pm
Should've added "Might be Aspergers" to your poll. But I went ahead yeah, and marked "Sounds like." Some things.. like the routine change. You have a baby now -- and routine is difficult to break with. I can't know from the description you gave though. It's sort of vague. If you're really suspicious of Aspergers, then you need to seek out an autism specialist for adults... which can sometimes end up being more pain than changing and carrying out all those dirty diapers.
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Sound like a fellow Spectrumite to me. Welcome to WP 
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13 May 2010, 9:15 pm
I can't speak for the person who posted. If he seriously believes he has Aspergers, he should seek out a professional Autism specialist and diagnosis. If he is not Aspergers (I can not tell), then that doctor can assess for other problems...
I don't think a lot of people realize it, but there is a very real growing epidemic of people claiming they're Asperger Syndrome... because they're just rude. Self-diagnosed jerks, and maybe seen Albert Einstein or Bill Gates with the label, so therefore it seems da mode thing to do.
Here's one further, and I noticed the difference between "A LACK OF EMPATHY," vs. "a mild form of Autism that comes with what seems to be a biological inability to show empathy for other human beings, as well as (and maybe stemming from) an inability to recognize nonverbal cues."
That does not imply "empathy" is non-existent, merely Aspies have difficulty showing the very real and present empathy, that is within themself, fully intact and functional.
But comparing bullying and internet trolls and the like, to Aspergers Syndrome??
More myths to further corrupt people's understanding of what Aspergers Syndrome really is.
July 6, 2009 @ 9:04 am
Filed by Mark Liberman under Language change
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1559
And he says that he's come to "recognize a new disorder, the underlying cause of Harris' Law", Internet Asperger's Syndrome, which "affects people when their communication moves to digital", causing them to "[stop] seeing the humanity in other people", and to behave in other ways that (in his view) parallel the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome.
The term Internet Asperger's Syndrome was recently picked up by Jonathan Kimak in a humorous piece for Cracked ("6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet", 6/30/2009). Kimak writes (inaccurately) that Asperger's Syndrome is a
People cringe when they hear this term because they know that a large number of the teenagers claiming Asperger's are, in fact, merely dicks.
He agrees with Calacanis's diagnosis:
Thus Kimak ends up connecting Asperger's Syndrome with various forms of internet-mediated mob cruelty — his characteristic examples are things like "A kid commits suicide on webcam while the trolls cheer him on … Normal kids, … but get them in a chat room and suddenly it reads like the transcript to a Charles Manson parole hearing"
Ironically, it takes a certain lack of empathy to see Charles Manson's sociopathic crimes as having any similarity at all with the social awkwardness and focused, "systematizing" interests of Asperger's people. And spontaneous adolescent mob cruelty, internet-mediated or not, strikes me as having little to do with either one.
In this case, Calacanis and Kimak make the the connection between chat-room meanness and Asperger's because of the idea that the lack of non-verbal cues leads to the depersonalization of victims. But the kind of mobbing gossip that they describe — as familiar from school cafeterias as from web forums — is way outside the spectrum of Asperger's behaviors, from everything I've seen and read. And charismatic sociopaths like Manson are especially skilled in exactly the sorts of communicative manipulation that Aspies have problems with.
Read the entire article : http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1559
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