Asperger's: The Engineer's Disease (PBS)

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i'm self-diagnosed asperger, I have got my first job for a month now on a three-month contract. I am feeling so bad thinking about my future after reading some experiences by people on the website. Maybe it's because i'm honest and believe what is written there. By the way, I think asperger may also be called "the professor's disease"

(i intended to post it as a comment on the articel, but somehow i cannot)

I'm a third generation mechanical engineer, from a family of engineers. I think it's all down to the autism genes passing down the generations...

The word "mired" was an insighful describer, I thought.

What hit me was "Reality" I keep hearing about it, face reality, and other variations. When I ask to have it explained, reality is reality.

I have a perceptual differance. As Carlos Catanada put it, A Seperate Reality.

As far as machines, I have X-ray vision and more, I can put them in my head and design them, or tell why they are not working right.

I dove into WP, for I was learning. There is an other reality about the place. Many are trying to fit in with the world, some are trying to fit in with themselves. The later group has a lot of common features.

Somedays it is hard to see, but I find many who share my reality.

Several of the comments reached me, that AS should have it's own education path.

I never thought anything was wrong with me, it was the other people. Their minds are closed to the wonders of life, and their goal has been to close mine. Failing that they could at least try to make me unhappy.

I have never understood, but comments from AS people I understand.

Not being alone gives me hope. We do seem to have a common center, culture, which for people who never met, says they are not scatterbrained misfits, needing treatment, but a subtype of human.

I am not alone, WP has doubled since I came. Many are finding the words they need to hear.

A step in the right direction, only it's not a disease.

I am not diseased.

Quote:
"Nobody wants to have Asperger's syndrome"



I really wanted to have this label!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Who wouldn't? lol We got our strengths we got our weaknesses.
I know many shy people without labels. communication / social weakness sure but there are far more strong points I believe!

and yea communication can be fixed. / so can social interaction. People(NT) go on public speaking courses so can we.

mmmm...

I found out I had Aspergers 6 months ago listening to a tape interview my parents and DR attwood.

ha I was shocked. Now I know why people call me weird lol. But mm Weird is the new cool

lol yea

mmm... I researched it AS) after listening to tape.
and started to want.
to have it. Yea and I do!! YAY for me
(just gotta tackle this anxious thing and hmm find the write job for me. lol quarter life crisis atm)

Similar experience here!

Thats cool

how did your experience go???????

lol interesting knowing others going through same thing eh

i want to improve in my studies.
i am student of biotech engg.
please help....


thanx

interesting, my dad has been a nuclear engineer for longer then I have been alive, and hes more aspie then I am in many ways. Makes sence!

My son has diagnosed aspergers - he is an engineer, He has always had an engineers type mind. My brother was a math and science geek (undiagnosed - but definitley had aspergers)My husband works in It - I'm a nurse. Nursing and understanding body systems is my passion. The aspergers came through my family line - not my husbands.

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What was the show about? I studied mecanical engineering last year, but quit as apparently "high social skills" are required to become an engineer.

I don't. AS is NOT a disease.

Some of these stories just make me feel like I am screwed twice in life: I have AS and I am not an engineer/science type

Neither did I.
I didn't want to be labeled at all.

I wanted to be me.

I wanted others to respect me for my own personality and quirks.

I wanted people to be friendly, understanding and not bully me if I was slow on the social uptake.

I wanted others to value my creativity and work.

I wanted to be independent.

I wanted to be able to interact with others in an environment where there were unambiguous rules and independent discovery/experimentation/exploration of the physical environment, that fascinated me, was valued.

I didn't want to be pressurised into social participation/cooperation in large groups when I couldn't handle it.
I'm much better at helping/talking to people on an individual basis.