16 Jul
2009
16 Jul
'09
5:17 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Gordon JC Pearce<gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 19:15 -0500, Brian Lanning
wrote:
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.
Maybe I was a bit too subtle. I think we're agreeing with each other.
I was suggesting that people with AS can certainly learn people
skills and should. But many conclude that they don't have to. I
don't think anyone, even the psychologists, are suggesting that people
with AS can't learn people skills. I think AS is very real. But
since the psychological community doesn't understand it very well, it
defies attempts to classify or describe it, and to differentiate it
from autism in general.
brian