This Is How They See Us...

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There really are people that bad off. I agree the article could have been written better and I think that kid def has some other issues, but this is also a good reminder to us of the dark side of AS.

It's clearly a sporadic case of AS, according to the article his form of AS had been excaerbareted by his severe mental health issues such as PTSD. I'm presuming that either some traumatic event incidentally occurred during his hospitalization at the Fairview Developmental Center (e.g. obtrusive side effects of injected anti-psychotics), or it was retrospective years of neglectance by his family that contributed to his mental illness - or both could've played in the role of it's development. I'm implying by taking my speculations into account that his AS was unrecognized when he was younger; however, the article doesn't mention his medical and developmental history prior to age 17, therefore it's inexplicable to determine this and has perpetuated the debate even further. The only thing that is clear that this is an extremely negative and misleading stereotype towards those with AS, one that suggests that those with AS are mentally handicapped or incompetent - as a result they cannot adapt to function on a daily basis within society.

Unlike those with a severe form of autism, individuals with Asperger's syndrome don't usually fall into the mandate of the developmental disabilities sector; nonetheless, Nate Tseglin's concurrent diagnosis of PTSD has led to a further deterioration of his adaptive and mental capacities even more prior to being hospitalized at Fairview, equivalent to that of someone intellectually handicapped. So as a result of odious neglect and traumatic events, it is now reasonable that he has once again being committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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Diagnosed with "Classical" Asperger's syndrome in 1998.
AQ: 47/50

Is it the vast majority?

I don't think that the people who do need support should be minimized, either.

Part of it looked like he was being abused. However, the person who wrote the article made no attempt to differentiate if it was all self-inflicted or as a result of being locked in a room [or if the door was locked from the inside or out], so it's very difficult to tell.

Whoever wrote the article was trying to push for people to provide funding.

It doesn't mean that they're right.

I'm so sick of people taking the worse cases ever heard of and applying it as what happens all the time. People make me sick.

I usually see them as overly rationalising trolls looking to affect others
with sensational hyperbole and panic merchant shock tactics
I didnt and will not see the article though
There are too many of these written political pieces anyhoos

Probably a mental health marketing guru penned that little gem
should generate a few million over the next few years
and further alienate society from itself
allowing cracks for more wedges
perfect

Not sure this is so much a misrepresenting AS issue then a overall journalistic issue, Papers are struggling to keep subscriptions/viewership(read ad reveniues) up and sensasonal headlines have a way of keeping people interested, the thing is most people tend to read the headline and a few on their way to the sports so the way the story is wrote dosent really work, I also question if this really can be called "news" anyway. Not just us being mis-represented, just how media works now a days.

That sounds like some one with a severe case of low functioning autsim to me.....not aspergers...