How Many People Here Are actually Autistic or have Aspergers

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I have had that thought! I have found several posts, that seem like mining expeditions. I just answer them with as much of myself as myself will have me answer with. HA! Because I know they see. And if I can help. I will. Everyone deserves the best chance they can get. In relation to many things.

I was diagnosed with Aspergers by the head of Psychiatry for the city.

I was being sarcastic. I get sick of the "You don't have AS" crap. So that is what I say now to those people.

Don't ever disclose your real identity and never never give out your real name unless it's some strange cyber name/identity thingy you use to hide behind since you're embarassed by being a little strange.
They're out to get us for sure.

It depends on how you define autism, doesn't it? Psychologists still argue among themselves about what autism and Aspergers are, so I think we're free to define it broadly.

The 'traditional sense of the word' (assuming you mean how the media approach it) is what we need to get away from. When the public thinks that an autistic person is someone who is speechless and totally socially incompetent, you can understand why there is this general acceptance (not here) of the 'War on Autism', of the need to eliminate it.

The chief characteristic of autism, according to some researchers is a 'profound sense of aloneness'. You can produce a long list of writers, artists and scientists who were autistic according to that criteria.

I've never been diagnosed. I've never been diagnosed with social phobia, introversion, or selective mutism either, but i've experienced all of them throughout my life.

AC

Well, I would not consider the people here to be a collection of "weidos". But I guess that's the kind of word that has ambiguous meaning depending on who uses it.

I doubt the government is monitoring this site pursuant to a program collecting date about AS individuals. That would involve a level of coherence and foresight that I think our government has lacked for a few years. They probably mine data for a variety of purposes, but probably not for logging us "weidos".

I do believe that the government has algorithms running searches for certain word combinations, names and phrases against the Google databases, and to the extent that this site is spidered by Google, that would include the contents of this site, too.

The beauty of this site is that anyone can come here and say anything they want- unless it its harmful or insulting to others- and not be judged. Anyway, isn't it somewhere in the rules that the site is open to relatives and friends of people on the spectrum, as well as advocates of people with Aspergers and autism?

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Just remember, everyone, those on the internet may not be exactly as shown.

A reminder to the wise, and not so wise.

Are you serious?

Edited to add: if this is what you believe why are you inviting people to announce they have AS here? Wouldn't that just help them ID us by IP logging the posters' connections?

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When I was a kid only the second diagnosis was available. Thankfully, my mother knew better- how she survived my childhood is beyond me!

No I'm not serious and I think you take things to seriously.

Omg! You are so silly, they are not out to get us. Strange change little ways without delays. You tester! HA. That was funny. Just someone, is watching and learning. That is all. And since I am watching and learning. Why must it be assumed that I am a psychotic episode. I am not, so neither are they!.

You are greatly mistaken if you don't think the government isn't interested in people with different perceptions. But then again I'm just paranoid.

I self-diagnosed. I would never have suspected AS, not even from the DSM-IV criteria, nor the fact that all the available online tests point to AS/HFA. It was the "other" autistic traits (stimming, perseveration, SID) that clinched it for me, especially after finding WP. It was like looking into a mirror at myself, both in the present and the past.

I also have a "half-professional" diagnosis from a tenured university psychology professor. But she doesn't practice clinically, so no full cigar, probably for legal reasons (I'm in the U.S.--home to too many lawyers).

But when her advice to me was to find an AS support group immediately, I knew that I wasn't wrong.

It's made such a positive difference in my life to know, at long last, why I've always been different.

'different 'people are dangerous to the ideals of the 'normal' masses and have always been so.

different people uphold the greatest endeavors in all things pertinent to survival for the human race! It is beautiful and awesome. Not weird or paranoid. And you know that.