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03 Feb 2008, 4:14 pm

If there's one thing that defines me as an aspie, it is being anti-tribal. Aspies can never be a tribe, by the very definition of Asperger's.


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03 Feb 2008, 4:40 pm

In my opinion, there are several different tribes under the common heading of Asperger's syndrome. Aspies and Aspergians are just two.



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03 Feb 2008, 4:45 pm

This is ridiculous.



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03 Feb 2008, 5:02 pm

LePetitPrince wrote:
This is ridiculous.

It's no more ridiculous than the Germans being broken up into Saxons, Angles, Alamanni, Sueni, Jutes, Frisians, Franks, etc. or the Greeks being broken up into the Ionians, Dorians, Acheans, etc.



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03 Feb 2008, 5:06 pm

Maybe not like a tribe, but yes a lot of simpathy :)



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03 Feb 2008, 6:01 pm

What about the Border Aspies who exhibit both Aspie and NT characteristics and will associate with both NTs and Aspies?


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03 Feb 2008, 6:05 pm

I feel tribal about the Aspie community (and not ll Aspies are part of the Aspie community, and you don't have to have AS to be a part of the Aspie community).



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03 Feb 2008, 7:12 pm

Silver_Meteor wrote:
What about the Border Aspies who exhibit both Aspie and NT characteristics and will associate with both NTs and Aspies?

They would belong to one of the marches.