This is getting annoying, really annoying.

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I think the OP is hinting at all the people who think that AS is about being an Einstein and they think they are smarter than everyone else so they want the label AS so they can get a sense of superior intellect.

Most posters do have superior intellects, without a doubt. Content considered, word for word, these posts have far more quality than the average interwebs small talkings.

So, what does it matter if everyone here is officially diagnosed?

this debate will continue while there is no formal objective test for AS.

Seems to me that if indeed folks are saying they have Asperger's and don't, who are wanting to be aspie, they likely aren't NTs but folks in between, neither NT or Aspie. People who never fit in, but who want to, and who have some traits in common with Asperger's and want to fit in and belong.

It's been stated before that everyone is on the autistic spectrum just at different degrees and everyone has some autistic traits at varying degrees.
The "NT" type is at a different degrees on the spectrum than the "ASD" type. The NT type has different traits.
Of course this could be misinformation. My understanding is that everyone is on the spectrum just at different degrees so it's the traits vary in individuals.

I think that a diagnosis is neither necessary nor sufficient to have AS. However I think that people that are self diagnosis should just keep this suspicion to themselves or perhaps online forums, and do not go on making videos, or claiming to people that they got AS, simple reason, it will aid those b*st*r* out there justify their belief AS is an invented condition that came from geeks trying to make up excuses for their bad social skills.

The people to blame for the "geeks making excuses" stereotype are the ones who use that stereotype against people, not the ones who are targets or potential targets of it. When I have seen the "geeks making excuses" stereotype used, it has always been against people who were genuinely autistic and trying to explain, for instance, why they took something literally. And it's always been used by people trying to put someone else down. Their desire to put someone else down, their desire not to be understanding at all towards autistic people, is what fuels the stereotypes, and all the "geeks making excuses" (if they even exist) disappearing overnight won't change the stereotype one bit. Because the people who make it generate it in their own head and apply it to real autistic people. So they are seeing "geeks making excuses" everywhere where they don't even exist.

Someone who has Asperger's and is not officially dx'ed can easily find out what a therapist would do to dx them and can often do it better than a therapist. This is not science. There are no blood tests. There are behaviors that are self reported to a therapist.

If someone knows they have it and do not want to be dxed because :
1. Could prevent them from joining the military
2. Could prevent them from being able to immigrate
3. Could cause them distress in other ways
4. They cannot afford a therapist-

There are many reasons why someone may not want an official dx.

Anyone who really has ASP is smart enough to find out how therapists do it. There are many books and forms that they give you when you are dxed that you can find.

If someone wants to be ASP, let them. If it helps them figure out why they are the way they are, that's their business.