guywithAS wrote:
thanks for the posts guys.
as i see people self diagnose with aspergers, i get the feeling in many ways it is to gain this "permission to injure". they no longer have to make extra effort in social interactions because there is a built in excuse.
if you're self diagnosed -- or even professionally diagnosed (like i was), i'd encourage you to be careful about how you handle this. just because they say we don't have empathy doesn't mean we have to act that way.
"They" never seem to say that NT's have no empathy towards US, which is quite-often the case.
It's hard for anyone to empathize with someone who has a radically-different way of being-
Autistics shouldn't be expected to "act" by virtue of being not in the neuro-majority.
For those of us who are self-diagnosed (I was, prior to seeing a psychologist) it wasn't really a "choice" on our part.
We simply recognized that we met the criteria (an apparent lack of empathy not being one).
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31 Aug 2011, 1:47 am
