What do you think of when you hear the word disorder

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I think "ret*d"

I get very, very interested. I'm really into the various "disorders", but in response to what you're probably asking, I don't attach any specific connotation to the term, positive or negative. I just think "interesting".

a lack of order. when used in a medical sense, not operating as would be expected.
That can also be used in the social side, with drunk and disorderly, where the person is not behaving in the way expected of them.

HEY, GIANTISM is a disorder! The only symptom is UNretarded growth!

Steve

It has no real negative connotation with me but I try to avoid spelling it out in connection with autism as not to upset members here. People get very sensitive over the semantics of words when the larger meaning is more important. Which at the very least disorder means difference.

It is like saying the person was of the normal/NT group to begin with,and then happened to be changed to not normal,as the person is born Autistic,it is normal to that person,so it is not disorded.

I think that at least the words disease, or handicap weren't used.

my house, its a mess

"Me." I’m…I was disordered and disturbed compared to my peers; if I’ve ever had any.

"Objectively", all the professionals see autism spectrum stuff as social retardation, i.e, you're held back socially compared to the "majority" of the population; I’m socially ret*d because I didn’t…don’t speak to anyone other than a professional, and then it’s only words that are pertinent to the subject in our hand, and only in a voice that isn’t mine. I know my voice, and that one isn’t it. Yeah…if I cannot; you cannot interact with the majority how they’d like you to then you are indeed ret*d in their eyes. Remember, these are the very people who gave you the label that you’ve accepted….

If you don't think you're "ret*d", drop the label and live how everyone else wants you to live with the seamless ease that they do.

I get interested as well, I want to find out about it and all. But I always think "how do I have a disorder? I've always been this way, things seem pretty ordered with how I do them, it's just not the 'norm'".

Mental retardation or mental illness
Mess
Unrest, strife

I was never aware that my mind state and how I acted was any different to my peers; when I never spoke, when I never understood their derision, when I could never learn anything due to the social environment that mainstream schooling is; until a month or two ago…I “awoke” to some extent. I’m still deciding if it was better to wake up or not.

I assumed that I was different, yes…but not to the extent I now see I was; I mean, I didn’t speak and interact how everyone else did; I bounced a ball around and threw it in hoops like everyone else, the same as everyone else; my motor skills are normal…. Words don’t make a good basketball player. I couldn't understand why I was different until I read some words that were written by psychics and psychos after I started deducing stuff my psychic was telling and asking me....

How would you happen to know that I've never had an IQ of =<70, or over >150; I've had both.

Yes, generally...objectively we are socially ret*d: the extent of which equates to how well you can function in modern society.