Asmodeus wrote:
This is made of win and crudely made sense.
All but few people claim bull, especially adolescents and university students, claim they're this and that, I've seen enough 20-somethings that sit on welfare knowingly (I know two these people) based apon an autism diagnosis, it's digusting.
There are a lot of people out there with real problems, don't misjudge my post, but the vast majority of undiagnosed "I think I have x mental abnormality", or " I have been diagnosed with x mental abnormality, and therefore I don't have to try/should be looked after/can't even attempt to do something, or get a job." Piss me the hell off.
If it soothes you nerves, I was diagnosed, first with AS, then depression, but I don't tell people about it, and I don't think I deserve any different from the next normal person.
Hmmm. Prior to being diagnosed I tried for almost ten years to finds / keep a job and failed despite never giving up hope or goiving up trying.
After the diagnosis, I got my current job through a disability programme and am still there now, five years later. I firmly believe that without my diagnosis I'd still be unemployed now. If someone has a condition that prevents them from fully functioning in the workplace without extrenal support, why shouldn't they be given special help? The idea of such programmes is to get people OFF benefits, not to give them an excuse never to work again.
I don't tell people about AS or depression eitheer, mind - unless I know that also have it themselves.
None of this alters my opinion about Savage either. Even if his arguments about AS were justified - and I don't believe they are - there are still plenty of other valid reasons to label him why he's an annoying w*ker.