16 Jul
2009
16 Jul
'09
9:25 a.m.
On Jul 16, 2009, at 2:57 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 19:15 -0500, Brian Lanning
wrote:
Oh, yes, please -- let's have an argument about Asperger's here, based
on "insightful" quotes from frigging "Fight Club."
Or better yet, no.
Josh
Secondly, I think it would serve a lot of us here
if everyone were
aware of Aperger's Syndrome. I have it, and probably a very
significant percentage of people who read this mail list have it as
well. People who have it could have a several opinions about it.
You
could for example, believe that you're right and that nothing is
wrong
with you, and that you're completely normal, in spite of lacking an
adequate frame of reference with which to compare your experience.
Or, you could accept that you have it, but conclude that you're
manner
of thinking, behaving and being is better than that of everyone else
and refuse to modify your behavior in an attempt to better cohabitate
with your neighbors. Or, you could accept that you have it and
decide
to work toward learning some people skills in an attempt to at least
partially improve the opinions of the people you meet.
Or, you could accept that Asperger's Syndrome is a load of nonsense
made
up by a desperate but unremarkable doctor wanting to make his mark in
his chosen field, and used to excuse an entirely fixable lack of
social
skills.
Think you might be an Aspie? Here's some free self-help advice - as
Chuck Pahalniuk might say, "You are not a unique and beautiful
snowflake". Furthermore, the world does not now, did not in the
past
and will not in the future revolve around you and your needs. In a
related effect, no-one is going to change the way they behave just to
accomodate you, and nor should they have to.
As a friend of mine said many years ago after his parents took him
to a
clinical psychologist, "So it turns out I have Asperger's, and all
this
time here was me thinking I was just being a dick."
Gordon