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MemberSix
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26 Aug 2008, 3:09 am

While it may not be a disease, it's very definitely pathological.



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26 Aug 2008, 3:13 am

Using the definition of "disease", it actually fits.

Many people assume "disease" means an acute illness, and many others think it as an emotive term, i.e., "I'm not diseased! I'm perfect!"

So yeah, the statement down the bottom of the page is factually wrong.

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1. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
3. Obsolete Lack of ease; trouble.



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26 Aug 2008, 3:15 am

Not a disease, more a lifestyle choice. :alien: :lol:



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26 Aug 2008, 3:23 am

Starr wrote:
Not a disease, more a lifestyle choice. :alien: :lol:

now how can we know it is just a joke? because of the smiles? but can we be sure?


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26 Aug 2008, 4:27 am

MemberSix wrote:
While it may not be a disease, it's very definitely pathological.


Anything can be pathological, normality could be interpreted as being pathological, it's a matter of who the 'priests' of social customs are in a society.



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26 Aug 2008, 4:35 am

ZakFiend wrote:
MemberSix wrote:
While it may not be a disease, it's very definitely pathological.


Anything can be pathological, normality could be interpreted as being pathological, it's a matter of who the 'priests' of social customs are in a society.

Yeah, very insightful.



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26 Aug 2008, 7:01 am

Hi there,

They say; diseases are by definition curable. And they say autism isn't curable. Thus Asperger's isn't a disease.

But who are they? Doctors, shrinks and psychologists? Those arrogant tagging bastards. OK, not all but most of them see their field of profession as an absolute science, which I think is very wrong. It should be far more dynamic.

But hey, that's my opinion, thus subjective.
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26 Aug 2008, 7:19 am

it is a syndrome and not a disease

it is a disorder where structural elements are rearranged into new foundations of conciousness.

a disease is where things are pathogenically pollutive.

aspergers is not like that.



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26 Aug 2008, 8:07 am

its not a diesese dumb ass



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26 Aug 2008, 8:19 am

Joeygeorge wrote:
its not a diesese dumb ass

Who's he talking to ?

And it's "It's not a desease" - not - "its not a diesese".

Though I can see where you were coming from with the DIEsese spelling.



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26 Aug 2008, 8:20 am

One day it WILL be a desease, because one day, we'll be able to cure it.



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26 Aug 2008, 8:25 am

MemberSix wrote:
One day it WILL be a desease, because one day, we'll be able to cure it.

you want to cure it?
imagine a world of aspies in which neurotypicals would be a minority.
we would be called typical and there would be a diagnosis for them.
it's not like there are only disadvantages on our side.


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26 Aug 2008, 8:27 am

I dont want to cure it! I think it gives the world a better balance to have AS around...



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26 Aug 2008, 8:28 am

only way to prevent our species being born is designer babies, let us go forth and destroy thoses labs cos without aspergers u wouldnt be who u are today



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26 Aug 2008, 8:29 am

YES!! ! I am glad i am me!
It was very hard in my childhood and teenage years, but now i am an adult, and i am GREAT! (weird sometimes..)



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26 Aug 2008, 8:33 am

ghouna wrote:
YES!! ! I am glad i am me!
It was very hard in my childhood and teenage years, but now i am an adult, and i am GREAT! (weird sometimes..)

haha awesome, ditto, well written.


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