The word Asperger

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Back when I started Freshman year in '03, I had a Life and Careers teacher whom was telling us all about her life on the first day of school. Anyway, she had an eight-year-old whom had AS, and she was explaining it and writing it on the board and everything! The whole class was cracking up the entire time as I slowly sank into my seat and pretended to laugh with them while feeling incredibly unconfortable. That was a really mean class, too, as I found out that semester...

Yeah, it's unfortunate. It would be less so if the condition itself involved a little dignity, but people already don't like or respect somebody because of how they act, then they can tell them they have "asperger's."

They quit calling people with down's syndrome "mongoloid idiots." I wish they'd do the same with us.

This is one reason you shouldn't just tell random people you have Asperger's Syndrome. When people find out, I usually get called ass burger or ass burglar.

HAHAHA! Now I can excuse myself with "Oh, pardon me. I have assburger's disease." That is awesome! Nonono, really, that's a conversation starter. "Ya know, I can't believe I've been labelled with a disorder that calls me an assburger. Seriously, it's on the books. Someone can just look through my records and say with confidence, 'dear sir, thou art an assburger,' and all I'll be able to say to it is 'yes, sir, I am.'" That's too awesome to comment further on, so I won't.

Don't get so insecure about what you call yourself. If you don't like the label that's been smacked on your backside, then keep your breeches pulled up. Besides, I don't have assburger's disorder. Why? I don't consider it a disorder. I don't consider myself in any way deficient. Perhaps some areas of socialization aren't really my bag, but I consider myself a maestro, a maven, a cognoscenti. That's my identity. That's where I fit. That's who I am to those around me, not some defective version of the same puzzlepiece as others, and I'm accepted because I accept and honor them in turn.

Do THAT many people know about it now? I wonder how long it will take them to put everything together, and figure I have it. I'm really the only one that saw and/or remembers the WHOLE picture, but STILL.

Still, too many, even HERE. Seem to confuse comorbid with a defining symptom.

Steve

I pronounce it 'aspergers' with a soft 'g', more like a 'j'. Then it sounds more like asperjrs than asburgers.

No matter how you pronounce it, anyone who laughs at it is immature.