Do you like urbandictionary's take on aspergers syndrome?

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23 Apr 2011, 9:03 am

I wish urbandictionary did have some credibility to it because there are phrases and words that have adopted a different meaning. But it's a worthless, pointless site.

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23 Apr 2011, 9:09 am

I like urbandictionary every once in awhile when I need to look up some slang word that i don't know. That definition is not a shining example of a good entry, though. Neither are many of the entries written at Encyclopedia Dramatica.

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23 Apr 2011, 9:14 am

I did agree with the contributor who said something about AS being "so overdiagnosed that those who really have it aren't being taken seriously." That, unfortunately, is a problem.

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23 Apr 2011, 1:55 pm

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Cannot be bothered to define right now... too busy looking at lol cats.. or maybe trains or gears or traps or... oh.. how about I cannot define this now because my hands are too busy flapping? Some stereotype we are all supposed to have... I can be awful with humor, but I hope you all get the point.

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23 Apr 2011, 2:49 pm

LovebirdsFlying wrote:

I did agree with the contributor who said something about AS being "so overdiagnosed that those who really have it aren't being taken seriously." That, unfortunately, is a problem.

I suspect that AS isn't taken seriously because people tend to minimize disability as invalid. It doesn't matter how many people are diagnosed with it. The attitude toward AS is not unique, and I have heard a similar lack of "taking it seriously" expressed about numerous conditions, such as depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia, diabetes, allergies, ADHD, migraines, dyslexia, Tourette's, and the list can go on and on.

It seems to me that a lot of people have difficulty empathizing with people over things they don't relate to. To them it's just, "walk it off" or "shake it off" and "just do it" whatever "it" happens to be, whatever limitations make doing "it" difficult.

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23 Apr 2011, 2:56 pm

I don't like it, because I have emotional problems that are real, and poor eye contact.

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23 Apr 2011, 3:53 pm

Verdandi wrote:

LovebirdsFlying wrote:

I did agree with the contributor who said something about AS being "so overdiagnosed that those who really have it aren't being taken seriously." That, unfortunately, is a problem.

Too bad this site doesn't have a "Like" button.

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23 Apr 2011, 4:14 pm

Verdandi wrote:

I agree, but I think that disability is not only not taken seriously, it's too often also a reason to scoff at and ridiculed those who are disabled. I've experienced that not with AS, since mine is mild enough that I can pass, and I don't usually tell people about it, but with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which I also have and which is severe enough that I can't hide it. When I have told people that I couldn't do something because of my CFS, some of them were openly contemptuous and disdainful, like I had come up with an outrageous excuse. They had been kinder to me when they had assumed I was simply lazy and unreliable. I think the Urban Dictionary definition of AS includes this sort of contempt for the disabled, like we are making up excuses for our behavior.

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23 Apr 2011, 4:20 pm

LOL It's just funny because the person is such an imbecile.

Also, I wouldn't call this Urbandictionary's take on AS. It's a butt-hurt, denying imbecile's take.

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23 Apr 2011, 4:21 pm

bee33 wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

Yes, all of this too. Sometimes I focus too much on recent specific examples I have experienced and not always on the general principles at work, such as the scoffing and ridiculing you mention.

Thank you for the elaboration.

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23 Apr 2011, 4:22 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

LOL It's just funny because the person is such an imbecile.

Also, I wouldn't call this Urbandictionary's take on AS. It's a butt-hurt, denying imbecile's take.

Is it untoward to mention that a medical definition of "imbecile" from the early part of the century was pretty clearly a description of an autistic person?

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23 Apr 2011, 4:23 pm

Verdandi wrote:

jmnixon95 wrote:

LOL It's just funny because the person is such an imbecile.

Also, I wouldn't call this Urbandictionary's take on AS. It's a butt-hurt, denying imbecile's take.

Is it untoward to mention that a medical definition of "imbecile" from the early part of the century was pretty clearly a description of an autistic person?

I don't care. This is the 21st century.

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23 Apr 2011, 5:15 pm

Unfortunately, there's bound to be some people who will take the article seriously, and have all sorts of new misrepresentations in their minds :roll: .
I'm assuming that the article isn't serious, so personally I find it laughable.

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23 Apr 2011, 5:40 pm

LOL, that's actually kind of funny. But I don't really agree with it, no.

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23 Apr 2011, 6:41 pm

TenPencePiece wrote:

Unfortunately, there's bound to be some people who will take the article seriously

Yes. No matter what quality the joke, what degree of wit is displayed, whatever subject is chosen, however it gets disseminated, whatever its accuracy - someone, somewhere will always take offence.
So - let's complain about everything until humour of any form is forced, quivering, into a dark corner.
Or maybe we should just restrict jokes to happy, skippy ones involving fluffy pink bunnies and sunlit meadows. :wink:

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23 Apr 2011, 6:45 pm

Sounds like your standard internet opinion. Might be shy a few f-bombs.

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