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06 Dec 2007, 5:42 pm

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Normal people are starting to find Asperger's sexy. I think it has to do with the fact that we're different. Maybe it's non-gender specific exoticism. All I know is people somehow think it's "cool."

Now whether or not they think certain people with Asperger's are uncool, that depends on the person.



I think the problem is that a lot of aspies tend to be arrogant (partly as a defensive mechanism, partly because they might be really good at something) and that turns a lot of people off.



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06 Dec 2007, 11:06 pm

I think alex's statement should be changed to the more appropriate "SOME people think AS is sexy". At least that would be what I would say. I would agree that some people can find the way we think to be fascinating, intriguing and an adventure to delve into, because it's like a slightly different species (in a sense it is). However, for every person who does, there's usually 3 or 4 who don't, likely more.


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07 Dec 2007, 2:44 am

KBABZ wrote:
I think alex's statement should be changed to the more appropriate "SOME people think AS is sexy". At least that would be what I would say. I would agree that some people can find the way we think to be fascinating, intriguing and an adventure to delve into, because it's like a slightly different species (in a sense it is). However, for every person who does, there's usually 3 or 4 who don't, likely more.



I would agree with that. But the people who are intrigued by us are always a little off themselves.



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07 Dec 2007, 2:51 am

JWRed wrote:
KBABZ wrote:
I think alex's statement should be changed to the more appropriate "SOME people think AS is sexy". At least that would be what I would say. I would agree that some people can find the way we think to be fascinating, intriguing and an adventure to delve into, because it's like a slightly different species (in a sense it is). However, for every person who does, there's usually 3 or 4 who don't, likely more.



I would agree with that. But the people who are intrigued by us are always a little off themselves.

To me, that's a good thing. I'd much rather be different than normal anyday.


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07 Dec 2007, 4:40 am

The only downfall at my school was that the only real bullying was between aspies there was really any aspie NT bullying just aspie vs aspie all the time. I tried not to get invoved but have found myself being involved with bullying there.



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07 Dec 2007, 4:44 am

MrMacPhisto,

are you sure that this school you went to was on planet earth?? I am serious...

I have never known ANY students to sincerely find having an ASD, "cool". They may have been intrigued and/or interested and wanted to get to know you as a whole "gauk at the autistic" type of thing...atleast that is how it was at my high school...not with me personally because I was not diagnosed. With the students in the special ed unit it was like that, with me it was just..."gauk at crazy person".

If people were to actually, sincerely find having AS "cool", then I would have stayed at high school for sure!


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07 Dec 2007, 6:05 am

I think they're thinking he's cool not because of his diagnosis, but because that they consider his different way of thinking interesting and unique. That to me counts as cool.


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07 Dec 2007, 6:26 am

I don't think it's "cool" to have a mental or neurological disorder, it kinda sucks over here. Not to say that one should be treated differently due to the differences and/or damage to the body, both ways, for good or bad, we should be treated normally.

Not babied, derided nor seen as "cool", I just want to be treated like everyone else, the normal people.



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07 Dec 2007, 8:32 am

OregonBecky wrote:
Some kinds of autism spectrum people are considered cool, at least, in my son's old high school. A quiet, mysterious brilliant, mathy, sciencey guy was intriguing to a lot of students.


When I was in high school (and in a lesser extent, in college), I earned some sort of respect due to my own math skill (and scientific skill as well). When I was in Sec. 4, I began to sing a song called "The Legend of the Virus", which I composed and wrote.

But some other Aspergers I know of have been bullied more intensively than I have been. I think I found the balance between the advanced math skill and mental calculation, but one who was bullied in high school had more skill in mental calculation...

I was not arrogant unless the truth was hard to believe for the people I was speaking with.



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07 Dec 2007, 9:00 am

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MrMacPhisto wrote:
Ten years ago I started going to Grainville Secondary School in Jersey Channel Island the new CDP department had opened for people Autism/Asperger Syndrome. Me and two other where the first people to be in this unit and because of this we were different from everyone we were like celebrities in our year and as it was all new everyone wanted to get to know us also we got a lot of respect from a lot of people I think I have only met 2 maybe 3 people who were quite bad about us and thought we were odd. But everyone liked us it carried on the whole time we were at secondary. We had people looking out for us all the time as well.

This is all true hope I am not being big headed but the reason why I'm talking about this is you can have AS and still be respected by people. You just have to look around.



Aah, the joy of fake friends...


I'm sorry, Lonermutant, but I think that remark was mean-spirited and cruel.



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07 Dec 2007, 9:42 am

I would simply feel freaked out if I had gone to a "special ed class" and "the normal kids" suddenly wanted to talk to me, etc. I think this was probably an attempt to exploit these students.