Neurotypicals HIJACKED the Aspergers diagnosis!

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My wife was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. When this disorder was first classified, the inclusions were limited to severe cases where the patient is usually dead within a few years of diagnosis. This was devastating to us. Today there are 4 categories within the disorder. The least debilitating category includes people who have symptoms and episodes but can function like "normal" people and live longer than some "normal" people. If we are fortunate, my wife will be in that category or misdiagnosed. But if she is in that category, does that mean that she somehow hijacked the diagnosis, or that she faked it in order to not be considered a "loser" because of her physically debilitating episodes and symptoms?

"losers" have something wrong as well. Perhaps not AS/HFA, but the need for direction and/or help/support is still there. Misdiagnosis happens because of the imperfections of humans. And misdiagnosis is more likely during the "birthing" of the acceptance of a disorder than after years of study and classification.
This isn't lyme disease that can be cured with 3 weeks to 3 years of antibiotic cocktails. This is a disorder.

But what qualifies one person's need or disorder as more deserving of help than another? Nothing more than discrimination.

The only "losers" are those who resent others receiving help. This classification isn't some admission into an elite social Club. This thread is proof of that.

No one will ever become wealthy from the miserly public assistance offered to some with the diagnosis, and if history repeats itself again, any with the diagnosis will be at risk of forced sterilization or even being euthanized. Simply for economic reasons if nothing else.

Verdandi, in my understanding evidence is not the same as proof. Yes, observations are evidence that supports conclusions, i.e. a diagnosis, but proof makes any subjective conclusions unnecessary, i.e. brain scans may make diagnosis superfluous, if we ever get there.

Until then, diagnosis doesn't rest solely on what someone tells the person doing the assessment, but also and most importantly on that person's observations and comparison to other diagnosed cases they encountered, which makes faking autism or AS difficult. I would venture that the people protecting their egos are more likely those that don't even seek diagnosis to verify (or falsify) how they diagnosed themselves.

People have NO right to judge who is or isn't an aspie. We all suffer, and for others to say our suffering isn't real is an insult.

Just because someone who diagnosed until adulthood, doesn't mean their Asperger isn't real. Horrifying that so many would want to deny the suffering of their fellow aspie.

DVCal sums this thread up well. And here it ends.