Do you like urbandictionary's take on aspergers syndrome?

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Do you like this definition of aspergers syndrome that came from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... 20syndrome?

I don't "like" it because it's not factual and of course that's deliberate. It's a parody, but not inventive enough to raise a laugh with me.
Other than that, I couldn't give a flying shite about it.

I'm indifferent about it.

Stuff like this is why I call myself autistic, instead of aspergers, since I think saying aspergers just gives the impression that I'm somehow high funtioning.

I don't think the person who wrote that is a licensed mental health professional.

It's ignorant. So, no, I don't like it.

there trying to be funny, they said that they were prob. wrong and offensive

I've read this before. I think he does have a point. I've met the 'dipshit' doctors and they've proudly announced in their lectures how if not for their medical certs, certain students conveniently dx'd with AS/ADHD/whatever right before their exams (and granted extra marks) would not have gotten into the competitive courses they did. Other students, each with their own difficulties but who'd put in the work and got better grades missed out as a result.

I'm also starting to seriously resent the medicalisation of what basically is, as this person writes, a set of personality quirks for a large amount of people. Whilst I am in complete favour of teaching social/coping skills to all children, I'm personally of the opinion that I don't think most children should know of their 'AS' label until adulthood. It's far too easy to opt out once you have an excuse; I was diagnosed as a semi-adult (22) and whilst it brought great relief for a time, it also made me give up trying because 'it's who I am'. Nobody is set in stone, certainly not for the first 30 years of their life.

I've recently gone back to trying and pick up where I left. I've decided that whilst I have a 'syndrome' of symptoms, and thus aspergers syndrome, I do not have aspergers disease; I can explain a lot of my social ineptness by my childhood experiences and the combination of my parent's personalities (not AS), and thus with hard work I can get over it to a reasonable extent. Obviously, it's harder for some than others and it does depend on many factors. I haven't ruled out the idea that there may be a 'gene' for AS or a cause in the future, just I don't think everyone displaying the collection of (really quite vague) symptoms should all be treated as the one condition and certainly not compared to autism. That just seems sloppy.

Note, I'm mainly talking about the 'mild AS' people, not folks who are classicly AS/borderline autistic. I still think labels are a bad idea though. They are like masks; you can hide behind them and they can protect you, but it's difficult to learn anything whilst hiding.

Last edited by Lene on 22 Apr 2011, 4:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I think this self-hating "former" (cured?) aspie really puts the dick in dictionary.

There is no 'dick' in 'dictionary'.

i dont care, it pisses me off that people can be so ignorant about HFA or aspergers, but if people learn more about how this is a real condition, not some excude for poor behavior, it can change.

Ummm... so, I think the poster was making fun of teenagers who claim the aspergers label for themselves and dupe their stupid psychiatrists into vouching for them. That is, he recognizes that aspergers is a serious label (As he admits that he himself was diagnosed with it), but it's been abused by whiny misunderstood teenagers who claim it for themselves.

That being said, he recognizes he's a dick as he expects a large amount of people to thumbs down his entry and he was right!

I'm thirty years past you, Lene, and have plenty of years to look back on, during which I did not know that I had any other condition than 'weirdness'. Now that i am able to review all those years with the benefit of five years' study of the condition that now has a name, I feel unwavering in my assurance when I tell you that knowing or not knowing makes absolutely NO difference whatsoever. Try, don't try, it won't change who you are. No amount of 'trying' did anything over those years to lessen the effects of my autism on my daily life or long term goals. The things I could do, I did, and the things I could not do, I failed miserably at no matter how much effort I exerted, ignorant of the full extent of my handicaps. That's why the jagoff who wrote this 'article' is a thick-headed loser who is either lying about being DXd with AS, or is a young punk lying to himself about his true condition, who's going to have a very rude awakening in a few years. AS is in no way imaginary, or so 'mild' as to be inconsequential. Call me when you're 35 and can't keep a job for more than a year at a time and tell me then that AS is no big deal.

While he makes a point about using AS as an excuse, the article should be removed. Out of the thousands of places where offensive language is actually valid on urbandictionary, he chose an actual condition to mock. I don't imagine he would write a review like that for "n******" or "jew" entries. As far as I'm concerned, he meets all the criteria of an ass.

It is a little mean spirited. That said, I only take Urban Dictionary seriously as a place where I can find definitions are slang terms and acronyms I don't understand.