IT'S OFFICIAL: No More Aspergers

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For example, a person who is considering transitioning from F to M may have felt all his life that he is male. I think a fair number of people in the general public get this, and a fair number don't.

The person is attempting to be true to themselves and to find their own path in a world which has not always made sense.

And that aspect has a lot of similarity with being on the autism spectrum. When it feels right, we probably do want to engage in conversation which help to engage members of the general public. And we probably want our own organizations which can help us advocate for our own interests. I mean, I want Wrong Planet to be part of a larger community.

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*When I told a guy I enjoy talking with in my poker league that I'm self-diagnosed on the spectrum, he shut down and his eyes glazed. I later decided he must have thought I was 'crazy' such as schizophrenic or bipolar, since I'm 'obviously' not autistic. If anything, I talk too much! So the conversations don't always go well. In fact, a fair number of conversations kind of go this way, although usually not as bad.

With two people I worked, I tried first telling them that I have sensory issues and processing issues, and then next introducing the idea that autism is a spectrum. I'll see how this goes.

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I don't want to have to be some kind of freedom fighter. Coping with everyday life is bad enough.

Okay, I'll try and be somewhat open to that usage of the word 'disorder.' Some transgend persons may rather it be called a difference. And with autism, yes, I'd definitely rather it be called a difference.

Here's one example, a kid struggling in elementary school who's probably on the spectrum, it might take four months to get an IEP which basically sets one course of action. Whereas a teacher or tutor who's experienced could probably try three new things in a week. As I see it, the primary benefit of a diagnosis is that gives things which are more likely to work (which still aren't sure things), kind of helps me play percentage baseball so to speak.

This.

The label is irrelevant.

I am diagnosed ASD.

I don't say I have Aspergers.

So many use it as some kind of badge.

All that matters is that we are something and are able to cope.

I couldn't care less if it was called blueberry jam, it won't change how I am.

If people have a problem with "being autistic" they can just say they aren't. Problem solved.

I'm pretty sure being born with the wrong brain would be a mental illness. That said, I'm also pretty sure that gender identity disorder isn't simply being born with the wrong brain, it's got to more complex then that.

I am starting to understand why GID is considered an illness. It causes the person distress and the fact they have to act like their bio gender and it makes them depressed because they can't act the opposite gender they feel on the inside. I never knew such rules existed for each gender. I suppose when you are a child and your parents won't let you play with dolls or play tea parties because you're a boy and you are forced to play with boy things and do boy stuff and it's not your interest, I can see why you be sad as a child and be depressed. But when you are an adult, it's different because your parents then can't tell you how to live your life unless they don't accept you for choices they make they feel are women things, not guy things. But I never grew up with having to do girl things only and it was all unisex stuff and I played with my brothers toys a lot, played in the dirt, climbed trees, I was a tomboy and I watched boy shows too and played fighting games. But if my own mother were to tell me I couldn't do any of those things because it's for boys and I am a girl, that wouldn't mean I had GID if I was always sad I couldn't do this or that because I am a girl. I have had phases where I wished I was a boy so I could pee standing but that wasn't GID. Call me a boy or say I looked like one, I would have been offended.

But then again even homosexuality was an illness back in the days and they were treated poorly then and now it's a difference. They still get treated poorly sometimes because of all the homophobia out there and some churches still being against it so it makes me think GID isn't an illness and it's just a difference. If they are allowed to be what they feel on the inside, then it's not an illness just like homosexuality isn't.

Nothing wrong with that. I saw several mentions of how some with AS view HFA, and felt the need to address it. Rather avid over the subject, I'm afraid. Apologies for upsetting anyone.