How Many People Here Are actually Autistic or have Aspergers

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Showing off? With a little not telling all of the truth. Now I am growing bored.

I look forward to the next awesome random encounter with you Nice to meet you indeed.

Haven't we estabished the wide variety in autism though?

Most of the people here seem autistic to me on some level.
There are those who aren't autistic and there may be some who self diagnosed that are wrong. No way to know how many or how few.

In short: Agree with "us" or get out.

It is exactly this kind of statement that has persuaded me to decide not to be a person with Asperger's anymore. I detest the with-us-or-against-us mentality the militant autistics of this board try to perpetrate on every thread.

What is normal?

We are normal no such thing as 'normal.' Everyone is normal. If normal meant having no medical conditions, have no problems, have no disability, not be on medication, etc. then there be no normal people in the world. Everyone would be abnormal. We're all different so of course we're normal.

What makes us normal?


We have feelings
We have thoughts and opinions
We are people
We have jobs
We are going to school
We can take care of ourselves
We can manage our money
We are married and have kids
We have a boyfriend or girlfriend



Note: Not everyone on here has all those things I listed above. I sure am not married yet and have kids and I am not going to school. I consider myself normal. I even consider people with mental retardation normal and people with mental illnesses too, people in wheelchairs, people with AIDS, HIV, etc. normal. My grand mother is normal and she has Alzheimer's and is senile.

I did work for the government at one time. I worked for the Department of Defense, Weapons Test Divison at the atomic test site in Mercury Nevada. I was a grunt just hired to collect 'specimens' of wildlife and insects over a large area of the site for about a year. My Dad got me the job to keep me out of trouble. It was fun and it paid really really good at the time.
I love the government, really I do. I'm not subversive in the least bit.

But you know deep down you do have it but you would rather say you don't have it because of this crap.

Maybe my question wasn't understood. I am not challenging anybodies right to be here but just wanting to get an idea of how many here are actually autistic or diagnosed with asperger's. From what I've seen this board has far more messed-up NT type people posting than others.

Well, I'm certainly not in belated denial over my diagnosis. I just don't subscribe to label as defining my life and person.
I'm still the same person I was B.A.D. (before Asperger's diagnosis), just better informed is all. I can't see myself saying to anyone, "I have Asperger's". Nor do I see myself relating to much of what is posted here.
I think I've struggled and lost as much as anyone here. I've had one job every year of my natural life (from infancy). I've been homeless, depressed to the point of suicidal thoughts, drug-addicted and alcohol-dependent. I have hid in my room for days upon days afraid to see or speak to anyone.
What seems to be different about me is that I never thought of giving in and letting someone else take care of me no matter how low I got. I may have been living in my car but I never- not once asked for a handout. I have been inbetween jobs more than I've been employed.
My life is text-book Asperger's yet in as many ways it is not.

erm.......did you get cancer or whatnot?
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/

Been there, done that. Look at my avatar. That's really me. I've had one b***h of a life but it wasn't because of being autistic it was because of being stupid. I wouldn't change anything if I could do it all over again.

I have AS with significant sensory integration difficulties, diagnosed 11/3/08.

I haven't noticed that more NTs post here than aspies/auties, but it might just be the threads I choose to read.

I have had 3 different medical professionals diagnose me, (though I havn't gotten a piece of paper yet.) and one was a specialist in autistics.

The funny thing is, since I came to this board, I feel like a complete outsider. Everyone I've met bar a few have not been on my wavelength. I've met trolls, flamers, liars and right0wing concervetives, and religeous fanatics. People have talked down to me, and insulted me and defied the truth of my statements as I have done then.

What's really funnny? I don't think I have aspergers anymore. Because I certainly don't act like some of hte more unpleasent people here, even if I can be unpleasent myself. I've always attacked people by their character, not whether they're more autistic or not.

The Militant Us-And-Theem attitude here is sickening. Still, what can you expect form idiots with no theory of mind, who aren't smart enough to read a psychology textbook and learn that We.Are.All.Humans.

Half of you are lovley nice people, and I wish you well in the future. the other half I wouldn't waste my spit on.

As my friend said 'A community built around a Neurological disorder and a lack of empathy can't be but a bit unhinged'

the cancer from radiation due to atomic tests, or witnessing it in others?

I never said "get out". I answered an implicit question he himself put to the board: how to identify AS people. The best way is to be one yourself. If his is not one, then it isn't quite polite for him to come here saying that this board appears to be a catch-all collection of weirdos, that people like us are a danger to normals' ideals, telling us his belief that the government has a program to identify people like us and asking us to come forward identifying ourselves for him.

I'm in the "maybe" section... I'm horribly socially inept and have special interests but I can read facial expressions...

do you have examples of that?



I've read psychology books and have some idea of what people might do. That has nothing to do with the fact that Neurotypicals tend to act different. That's why there is such a diagnosis.



neurological condition, you mean

And the 'lack of empathy' isn't exactly true