Tyri0n wrote:
A girl has several family members with Asperger's and, in a social setting, began telling us all sorts of things about Asperger's, including some unflattering and insulting things, as well as generalizations that are incorrect.
This girl knows me fairly well, and I was sitting right there the whole time. I don't think she has anything against me because she invited me to her birthday party, also yesterday. I really don't think she suspected I have Asperger's.
So if she grew up with immediate family members who have Asperger's and clearly had no idea that I have it too, does that mean I don't actually have it? I even did some aspie things in that gathering, including taking a joke literally in one instance, interrupting a few times, and misremembering that one girl is from the East coast and not the West coast, and like I said, we know each other fairly well.
It doesn't mean that you don't have Aspergers.
Loads of people who know a fair bit about the condition, and know me well have never suspected it. Even some people who work with Aspies don't see it in me.
Everyone does a few aspie-ish things now-and-a-again.
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An Aspie's habits are incomprehensible to society not because they are illogical or the result of madness, but because they stem from a mind so original that they cannot be seen as societal norms.
11 Apr 2013, 3:47 pm
