Grampy_bone said:
Sorry, but I just don't think Aspergers is actually a thing. Or at least, I don't think 99% of the people who say they have it actually do. Aspergers was never meant to be defined as a mental condition but rather a pattern of behavior which warranted further study.
The more you do stuff, the better you get at it. Sure talent plays a part, and some people are naturally more talented than others, but everyone has the ability to develop different skills. So if you spend all day talking and interacting with people, you will get better at it. If you spend all day tinkering with computers and playing videogames, you will get better at that too. Claiming one person is disabled because they lack a certain skill is ludicrous. You don't have some kind of wacky retard space brain because other people make you nervous. Everyone is weird in some way, no one is normal. Everyone has their thing.
Furthermore, I think telling a kid that they are mentally disabled and will never be able to interact with people normally is one of the most heinous things you can do to someone. If you tell a kid he will never succeed at something, they will most likely never try. So to everyone who claims they have Aspergers and thinks we need to "learn to understand their problems," grow up, get over your shit, and learn to get along with people like an adult.
I'm going to give you an insight into how Aspergers syndrome looks like from the inside.
It probably wont make much sense, but its worth a try...
For a start, I have no idea how you think, but I can hazard a guess because I sit comparatively close to 'the norm' as Aspergers goes:
imagine that you believe everything has, at some level, a set of rules that completely define everything about it, in every way. you believe this, even though it may not be true, and you search for these sets of rules in everything
with things that follow rules in totality, e.g. maths, physics, chemistry, computers etc, life is great, because your need for rules means that you grip them firmly, and you understand them easily. However, with less predictable things, which are effected by hundreds of factors, many of which it is impossible to know, the absence of any rule to follow, of any way to understand the actions of people interact with them, leads to a terrible difficulties dealing with other people.
yes, Aspergers is a difference in ability, but the thing you are missing is that it stems from a different way of thinking.
make any sense?