How Many People Here Are actually Autistic or have Aspergers

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I always wondered if anybody can tell if im autistic by the way i type or what my posts are about. i have mini videos of me on the ning network, i'm prob add more soon, jsut right now haven't got a chance to take any new videos. i only put videos of me from my cell because thats the only way i know how to, if i figure out how to put other videos on, ill put some on of me signing for class also. anyways i'm diagnosed, i'm an autie, and a touretter, if you met me you'd see it both in me, depending on the situation, time, day, place, and how long you hang with me your either see me as severely or high functioning if you spend the whole day with me your see im just around moderate haha, because i can seem only high functioning for a little bit then the rest of the time its basic autism at its best lol.

I just realized how rude I was with the question.

No, you cant tell by how you write. You are very bright and have an active mind like a great teenager. There's no "impaired" trait.

The way you can tell by peoples' posts that they have AS is the stuff they say, what they talk about in terms of their issues, difficulties, experiences and interpretations of NTs. It's when they talk about the AS and their traits and their queries about themselves as AS people, that it becomes obvious that they're not "weird and strange" NTs collecting here because they are strange and lonely.

The keyboard is a hard taskmaster.
I don't reed and right to well but I am good at spelling.

haha thats funny you said teenager, because doctors have always said to my family that mentally i wont age past 12 or 13, and i always wondered that. I think it was maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I typed much different, i didnt type in sentences, i'll give ya an example. Instead of saying If i wanted to say "I went to the mall, got pants, a shirt and ended melting down as I came hom"... it would come out as "went da mall, gotz mah self sum pants shirt lata melteddown" Its sorta funny looking back on how i use to type to now, in fact I took me so long to figure out how to type sentences, and phrases, and etc. I'm very proud of how I can type hehe, so thanks for your compliment !

I've highlighted the bits you seem to have overlooked in your attack.



No, I was attacking STUPID people. There's a big difference. Not all aspies are stupid, as many on this board will show you. Some however, are arrogant and obnoxious enough to cause a kneejerk reaction.



Oh, what about Slowmutant calling me a nazi because of my views on Satanism?



In my experience, my real life experience, of Aspies, they have been arrogant, or at least seemed to be so. Arrogance is somethign that strikes a nerve with me, and I lose my temper quickly. I accept people who are kind to me or others, not people who claim superiority because of thier poxy nuerons.



Don't talk to me about being disabled, I'm a schizophrenic. I was nearly thrown out of f*****g college becuase the rest of the class were scared that I would murder them, for no reason other than I told them about my illness. So don't f*****g preach to me about picking on people with disabilities.
Anyway, I point back to the Judging people by their personality.



People with muscular dystrophy don't claim to be intellectually superior to everyone without their illness. Stop trying to be clever, and think about your argument.



Well, I am something of a socialist.

I am angered by the fact that people can be so outspokenly misanthropic of a whole group of people. I am angered by people who read about aspergers on the internet and get angry when a medical profess
ional does not diagnose them. people have come on to this forum, tried to talk sense to us, and many of us chase them away. People hear don't listen. I doubt you've read my post and listened to my full intent, instead of piking out choice phrases to make a straw man argument.

(or worse?)

Oh, so I'm the antichrist now, am I? Calling doctors idiots for not diagnosing you with the desease Du Jour is fine. But telling people in a sardonic way that you think they should grow up and change is suddenly the root of all evil. Thats very aspie thinking, that is.

I just realized how rude I was with the question. It never occured to me to lead into it a little better.

A few points:

I try to be constructive here, and I have AS.
I am very, very empathetic (once someone verbalizes what's going on) and I have AS.
I do not flame anyone or shove my religion down anyone's throat (it's against my religion to do that) and I have AS.
I have read many psychology textbooks, and the people in my life are nearly all NT, and I love them all. And I have AS.

So what's not to like? Why throw away your diagnosis because you've found some lousy people around here. There are lousy people everywhere. Concentrate on the good people and hope for the best with the others. That's what I do, anyway, and that way, I get support for what's going on with me and I can try to be helpful to people having a tough time.

When I hear the us-and-them thing going on here, I figure that it's either coming from younger people who have been through bullying and the sting is still very fresh, or that it's coming from people who have had a lot of bad experiences in their lives and have chosen a life of taking sides. I don't take the us-and-them thing very seriously, because it's way too simplistic. But that's just me. To each his/her own.

As for this community being unhinged--it's no more unhinged than any other community. Ever belong to a religious community? An academic community? A corporate community? I've belonged to all three. I no longer belong to any of them. I prefer a life of sanity.

Understood. Sorry if I mistook you for a troll who declares all of us fakers--we've had that before. I just don't see Asperger's as an exclusive club which needs to be guarded against so-called frauds. I've been professionally diagnosed, BTW, but I don't want to whip that out as an Authentic Autistic Person Card whenever this subject comes up. Thanks for clarifying your intentions.

I'm not here to flame, as angry as I get. I stay on this forum in the hope that I can change people for the better. Maybe my phrasing's bad, but if you look through my posts, you'll see good and bad. admittedly the bad are longer.

But this is exactly the wrong attitude, the attitude I hate, the fact that anyone asking for change is pissed upon as a troll.

I also didn't realize that this was a question that somebody else had already posted. I didn't mean it to be a rehash of old news. It just seemed like the obvious thing to ask at the time.

No, I was attacking STUPID people. There's a big difference. Not all aspies are stupid, as many on this board will show you. Some however, are arrogant and obnoxious enough to cause a kneejerk reaction.



Oh, what about Slowmutant calling me a nazi because of my views on Satanism?



In my experience, my real life experience, of Aspies, they have been arrogant, or at least seemed to be so. Arrogance is somethign that strikes a nerve with me, and I lose my temper quickly. I accept people who are kind to me or others, not people who claim superiority because of thier poxy nuerons.