Request of all autistics, aspies, and all of the above

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02 Sep 2008, 10:53 pm

I've been on this site for a time. I would like to make a request.
This is for anyone with any ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) or believes that they have/are affected by/[place your favorite semantically correct verb here] an ASD.

I am an undergraduate in Sociocultural Anthropology, nearing my graduation. I'm going to write a thesis within the next year on how autism is seen by American culture. If it's possible, I'd request everyone to answer questions that I will have within a few months. I don't know if anyone's going to remember this by that time, but I do need an ethnographic account to help back up my paper. The internet will be one of my sources, albeit not the sole source for my paper. I will have questions ready at a later date...

I would just like to know if I would get any responses here on WP, and if anyone could help me spread the word. I am writing this thesis as there is such a lack of study in autism in anthropological fields, when autistics are often anthropologists ourselves out among neurotypicals.

Wish me luck, and may luck follow you in this crazy world.

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02 Sep 2008, 11:35 pm

I think you'd get some responses, as long as you're really respectful and everything. I'd certainly respond : ) Will try and spread the word!

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03 Sep 2008, 12:42 am

I will also respond...

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03 Sep 2008, 1:04 am

You have my sword,

[People, the comma is there so that the next poster can finish the quote.]
[Famous scene in LOTR? Surely there's someone out there is both a nerd AND willing to help this guy out?]

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03 Sep 2008, 1:37 am

I would reply.

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03 Sep 2008, 2:32 am

Pundit23 wrote:

there's an internet version of this joke

EDIT: googled it, remembered I saw it on digg.
http://digg.com/tech_news/2012_The_Year ... ernet_Ends

4chan: "You have my sword."
Slashdot: "You have my slash."
Fark: "And my axe!"

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03 Sep 2008, 2:51 am

are you just looking for opinions from people with formal DX?

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03 Sep 2008, 2:59 am

Warsie wrote:

I will also respond...

No, I'M Spartacus !

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03 Sep 2008, 3:44 am

if you don't mind people without formal diagnosis..then sure...

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03 Sep 2008, 8:11 am

I'll respond!

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03 Sep 2008, 8:55 am

*ponders* I'm not too sure about whether or not I would use people with only a formal diagnosis.

:idea: -- At that time, I'll just ask you whether you're formally DX'ed, undx'ed, or not affected at all. Because there are questions that I will ask NTs. (nods)