My plan to promote awareness worldwide for Asperger's

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Hello All, I'm new to this but hey, I've started my campaign called Asperger's awareness since the 9th Grade, in my school to start promoting and to stop being mistook for being an ordinary everyday child. It's a website called autismspectrumasperger.blogspot.com, where I've now upped the ante to promote a worldwide awareness campaign. I'm an ordinary being. I'm fighting for my rights of how I am, and I think it's time we step up and say "accept us." Please follow it, and if you want to edit it, I'll send anyone an invite.

Hi, what you're doing is great and all, but sorry to put a dampaner on your cause, under the DSM-V (5) ASPERGER'S SYNDROME no longer exists.. so us "aspies" are High Functioning Autistics..... nothing "too special" thats kinda my view on it how the psychological world seems to see us... "oh theyre nothing special, theyre just HFA..." buncha lowsey ignorant know it alls... anyways. I wish you luck on your promotion for awareness, hopefully you can make sure that in the DSM VI (6) that Aspergers is back where it belongs =)

people will never accept autism unless they accept our superiority.

not all autistics are superior... some of my ASD friends make me wonder- they make me really wonder......

Sorry, no.

Some people may have savant abilities that make them superior to many in that given area of savantness.

But...

Many people can barley take care of themselves.

Many can't take care of themselves, can't hold a job, can't make friends, and that's just talking about High Functioning.

Well hopefully they don't assume we are all high functioning...but I don't really see anything bad about them getting rid of AS and just putting it as Autism. Then maybe people wont expect people to fit into some super genius nerd catagory if they have 'aspergers' But yeah it makes no sense to me to have to different diagnoses of the same disorder....I guess if people with AS are autistic that means people with autism do have some qualities maybe that will help the stigma. Because if one who is lower functioning as a child is seen as a person with potential to learn and grow(not as in become normal but just you know general living life). Rather then someone who will never even say a word and then treated as such.

I mean I can't help but think some of the lower functioning people with Autism are still so low functioning because they never had anyone take the time to try and get to know them and help them with their goals and having access to their intrests. I mean I just feel like if someone is treated like they can never develop, learn anything and doesn't even so much as have any thoughts they would have a very hard time even with just general learning of things...but that's just an idea.

How are we superior (or for that matter inferior)?

Your argument, androbot2084, saying that "people will never accept autism unless they accept our superiority" sounds bordering to extremist to me. It is not an issue of who is superior or otherwise. Autism awareness among the general public is direly needed, advocated by the right people, and in the right ways.

As for abhma13, I have visited your site, and your objectives seem to be genuine. Let me just read through it and I'll get back to you on that.

When will man learn that all races are equally inferior to robots!--Bender

The medical establishment already sells the general public on the idea that autistics are inferior and disabled. So how is that politically correct?

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TheSunAlsoRises

There are a number of Autists on the spectrum THAT are severely disabled, mildly disabled, or slightly disabled depending upon how impairments affect their functioning. Unfortunately, some people assume THAT a disability makes a person inferior;. it does not.

I suspect there is a lot of untapped talent in the Autists community. However, i think Non-Autists fail to realize THAT there are a number of Autistics THAT are comfortable with keeping their 'talents' or 'special interests' as a personal outlet or expression of self.... to be shared with others by invitation only, IF at ALL.

Having said THAT, acknowledging disability, does not mean Autists (across the spectrum) are not differently-abled, too.

TheSunAlsoRises

the mainstream disabilty movement already hates and ignores people with autism and mental retardation.how is making derogatory remarks about people with disabilties going to make the disabilty movement take us seriously

Inferior; that is wrong.

Disabled; that's not cut and dry. It depends on the person. There are people on the spectrum who are disabled.

Like it or not; it's true.

I still don't see why that means we should behave that way towards 'all' neurotypicals.

Woah guys, chill out.