What do you think about asperger ?

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i got it and i feel that we are mentally ret*d since we cannot really think. That we need to be very kognitiv .

do you think asperger people can be good programmers or they have hard time since they cannot really think....

what do you think of an asperger...

what can asperger people be really good at i quess something very primitive

tell me:)

Some of us think very clearly, in a distorted way, but a clearly distorted way.

can you alborate more i think its alborate x.x.x ...

can u aloborate more what u mean with distorted we think without emotions or singals or..

last I checked I can think, and I usually think so much I sometimes whish I could shut my brain up.

I can think quite well, but I suppose one must speak for her or himself, yesss?

Something primitive? 20-page literary criticisms aren't exactly primitive, although one could argue that point as well as any, I suppose.

I think it's a cruel disability, because it effects everything and anything you ever do. If it affected social interaction only, I would be OK with it. Or if it affected special interests only, I would be OK with it. Well, you get the idea.
But because it involves everything, and then everything else co-morbid, it really pisses me off. I hate having it. I can't believe I was the one born with it, and everybody else around me were born NT. Just what a hell of a coincidence! Me! This is the only brain I will ever have, and the only body I will ever be living in, and yet I am lumbered with this awful thing. It's just unbelievable. It's unreal. If there were more people in my family who suffer with the same thing, I might be cool with it, but because I am, and always have been, ''The Only One'', it really makes me feel isolated and unlucky. I was the ''class geek''. The kids all spoke to me like I was ret*d. All of this filled me with shame.

I have Asperger's Syndrome and I can think quite well. Everyone with Asperger's Syndrome can think!

People with Asperger's Syndrome are NOT mentally ret*d and can think!

Some people with it could be mentally ret*d.

Isn't the minimum IQ for AS just above the maximum IQ for retardation?

Emotionally ret*d, perhaps. Socially ret*d - yes, pretty much by definition. Mentally ret*d - no. As others have already said, to get an Asperger's diagnosis, a person has to have an IQ of at least "normal."


um. Asperger's is often referred to as "Geek Syndrome" because programmers are so stereotypically Aspie. Programming is something that is well suited to the logical tendencies of many people with Asperger's.


Aspies tend to be very, very good at learning things that interest them. If one is interested in mathematics, or music, or sculpture, or anthropology, or . . . whatever, they tend to - eventually - become very good at it. Because of the social issues that come with Asperger's, it's unlikely that you will find a successful politician, or some other profession which requires extremely good social skills. Other than that, I can't think of anything that an Asperger's diagnosis would rule out - and I wouldn't say that NO aspie could ever learn the skills required. It would just be most unusual.

If I may, I'd suggest that you google "asperger's," or "asperger's traits" and take time to do some reading, as you seem to have some very inaccurate ideas of what Asperger's is.

Picture in your mind the stereotypical NASA employee. Chances are, that guy is probably an aspie.

While not all aspies are rocket scientists, a good percentage of rocket scientists are at the very least within spitting distance of the spectrum.

Albert Einstein, Sir Issac Newton, and Benjamin Franklin, who are probably some of the most well known geniuses on the planet, are all believed to be autistic. Einstein couldn't even speak fluently at the age of 9, and his parents thought he was mentally ret*d. Today his name is an alternate term for brilliance.

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(Philip Voss) AGAIN.

Maybe some of us are mentally retorted & cant think when compared with NTs or NTs perceive us that way. A lot of my classmates thought I was retorted & my mom accuses me of not thinking a lot.