Poll: Asperger Syndrome [please vote, even if you don't know what it is]

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LordMarcusX

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I know about it from Boston Legal. A character named Jerry suffered from it. I think they handled it very academically, making note of both humor and tragedy of the disease. Part of the human condition to laugh at terrible things, isn't it? If only due to fear.
I thought the diagnosis in that episode was simply a shield given by a high-priced psychiatrist to help keep Jerry ("Hands") from going to jail.
 

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If any of you believe you may have Asperger syndrome
Where's the poll option for "I believe I'm an Aspie but haven't bothered getting officially diagnosed"? 'Cause that's me.

sms_117b said:
I have IED, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, basically when sufficiently provoked I explode in a violent rage. Luckily so far I've taken it out on walls, old computers anything other than a person, but the day it gets so bad I lay into a person, that's assault, maybe ABH or even GBH, I'm going to prison regardless of the disability.
I knew someone with IED. It put him in prison; such a shame. Possibly the nicest guy I ever met, and very intelligent. A father of two, too.
A violent outburst against a person is something I'm always, to be honest, afraid of. Mum swears blind I got it because I don't deal with situations that bother me at the time, I just let things built up and built up until something tweaks and my self control is out the window for that split second or two
 

I3uster

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sooperg said:
i to have aspergers. fortunately through plenty of intervention i have 3x the attention span of the average Aspergers person. i also have the mind of a high school graduate and im 14 yrs old.
How do YOU exactly know that.


People often do not realize how smart the average person is, even the sunburnt fratboys in your school have complex strings of thought, its not limited to "intelligent" persons.
 

FallenRainbows

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Carn't say I know much about it, But, How can somthing make you socially awkward is that not just somthing you learn? And not born with?

Pardon me ignorance,

And not to be stereotypical but is there a link between the amount of gamers on the boards and the amount of people who belive they have the condition? It seems easy to mix up with poor social skills rather than a condition beyond youre control.
 

I3uster

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McCa said:
Carn't say I know much about it, But, How can somthing make you socially awkward is that not just somthing you learn? And not born with?

Pardon me ignorance,

And not to be stereotypical but is there a link between the amount of gamers on the boards and the amount of people who belive they have the condition? It seems easy to mix up with poor social skills rather than a condition beyond youre control.
Even psychologists are not perfect, also you may like to fit youre awkward behaviour into one of the symptoms of the disease...

Most people who voted aspergers more likely have another psychological illnes, called "hypochondry"
 

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Sorry if this seems off topic, but is anyone else getting the feeling from all the self-diagnosed [insert disorder of the week here] that there's a metal condition that makes people think they have mental conditions?

Because I think I have it.
 

galdon2004

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i have it, since i have no real personal experience not being me, i don't really feel like i know what exactly it does outside of the symptoms my doctors say while sounding like they are just describing me >_>

its better than being misdiagnosed with ADD and forced to take Ritalin though >_>
 

I3uster

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It is also not an excuse for anything, if you have a hard case you will get medical treatment, if not you just can learn to not bee socially awkward.

If you do not like to take pills then its not societys fault for discriminating you.
 

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I was actually initially diagnosed with A.D.H.D. at the age of about three I think (then later changed to Asperger's syndrome)... I guess the things that differentiate Asperger's from other PDDs are small.

On a more personal level, having Asperger's really doesn't sit as an obstacle to anything in my life. Sure I have Asperger's, and nothing other than acceptance and adaptation is going to change that. Sure I come across as weird to allot of people, but those people are all weird in my eyes. I never use Asperger's as an excuse for anything, if I think something's a bad idea, and I need to justify myself by saying "I'm socially retarded", I'm talking to the wrong person. You only live once, ain't nothing gona hold me down ;)
 

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tthor said:
LordMarcusX said:
5 out of 12 votes say they actually have Asperger's Syndrome? It's the new A.D.D.

Not to say Asperger's is a joke. To have it is potentially debilitating. But being anti-social, shy, or agoraphobic is not to have Asperger's. There are serious neurological issues at work with Asperger's.
i can't speak for every person diagnosed with it, but i am about positive my diagnosis is lagit. i a pretty social phobic, i show the obsessive tendancys are related to aspergers, socially awkward, clumsyness, insomnia, depression, speech problems, etc., i show many of the traits assoicated with AS

some ppl may by chance seem to be misdiagnosed because firstly, asperger syndrome is a bit broad of a spectrum, and can vary quite noticably between people with it.
and certain symptoms of AS can often be misdiagnosed as many other things;
ADHD, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, semantic pragmatic disorder, nonverbal learning disorder, Tourette syndrome, stereotypic movement disorder, and bipolar disorder.
I suffer from some of those symptoms as well (though i`ve never really sufferd froma speach inpediment of any kind)and by clumsiness do you mean like hand-eye co-ordination issues?
 

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timmytom1 said:
tthor said:
LordMarcusX said:
5 out of 12 votes say they actually have Asperger's Syndrome? It's the new A.D.D.

Not to say Asperger's is a joke. To have it is potentially debilitating. But being anti-social, shy, or agoraphobic is not to have Asperger's. There are serious neurological issues at work with Asperger's.
i can't speak for every person diagnosed with it, but i am about positive my diagnosis is lagit. i a pretty social phobic, i show the obsessive tendancys are related to aspergers, socially awkward, clumsyness, insomnia, depression, speech problems, etc., i show many of the traits assoicated with AS

some ppl may by chance seem to be misdiagnosed because firstly, asperger syndrome is a bit broad of a spectrum, and can vary quite noticably between people with it.
and certain symptoms of AS can often be misdiagnosed as many other things;
ADHD, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, semantic pragmatic disorder, nonverbal learning disorder, Tourette syndrome, stereotypic movement disorder, and bipolar disorder.
I suffer from some of those symptoms as well (though i`ve never really sufferd froma speach inpediment of any kind)and by clumsiness do you mean like hand-eye co-ordination issues?
I've been professionally diagnosed with AS, and I can't say my speech is impaired at all. That said, I did learn to read and write in a different way to others... I learnt by repetition rather than phonetics. I'd say that my conversational speech is good, despite my poor social skills, my reading speed is allot slower than the average. My vocabulary is pretty good mind, though I'm convinced that lots of other people posses a large vocabulary but don't use it (to be cool or what have you) and those are the people who are "weird in my eyes", if you read my previous post.

When it comes to clumsiness, with exception to my awful sporting ability, I am not any noticeably clumsy in comparison to everyone else. As I can't experience life as someone considered "normal" (I hate that phrase myself) it's very difficult to tell.

At the end of the day, you have to accept that this is how life is and just to live with it. Nothing other than experience can prepare you for the real world.

Edit: oh, and my drawing is woeful too ;)
 

FallenRainbows

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Bunch of Hypochondriacs We have here,
Wish I was Being 15 with Parkinson?s* sucks, Well It could be worse, I could look like you!

Joking, about the you part,

(*) So I haven't been diagnosed but the symptoms are physical as well as mental (shaking, Dizziness, Horrible Balance) and that?s just the start so perhaps not parkinsonism but a problem with the motor neurons to say the least, Yes I am Bricking it about Akenetic Mutism. (Complete Paralysis including speech)
 

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I've been diagnosed with PDD-NOS but one of my best friends has AS, though I don't know more about it than I do about autism in general. People need to realize there's more than just AS out there. :p
 

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There's a UK hacker diagnosed with AS that the USA are desperate to get their hands on, doing almost anything to get him extradited to them, and the poor guy is terrified he'll end up in Guatanamo Bay now as a terrorist because he hacked a lot of the military computers.

Now by hacked, I mean he had a look around, he and the experts all agree he did no damage, and imo, he's done the USA a favour by showing them how lax their security is, as Gary McKinnon, the hacker in question got past many checks by using the default passwords.

Now I only know of one person diagnosed with AS, but I think even if he only ends up in a US prison, he's going to be in a lot of trouble, he's not mentally fit to be shoved in a cell for the rest of his life, and the way the US are bending the facts to make him look like Osama's evil brother, frankly offends me.

Firstly they said he's possibly done $70,000 of damage, by 'looking' at their stuff, no wonder it costs so much to get into museums and art galleries nowadays, I didn't realise my eyes were wearing away the paintings. Perhaps they mean, 'oh no, we've been exposed as incompetent, and so we've got to spend shedloads upgrading security, oh its ok, we can blame the loony.'

Now they're claiming he's done over a billion dollars, I know there's a financial crisis, but even with inflation, this smacks of hyperbole.

Also, here's an example of AH I believe, he was first caught, when he was hacking into military computers, and took control of one while a user was in front of it, because he forgot about time zones. That shows that they can be very smart, but yet miss out on details that a 'normal' person would hardly even think about consciously. Not saying all AS sufferers are like that, but I'd say some are.

To me, he needs assistance and guidance, not the rest of his life in a cell in America. Hell given the right help he could be a real asset to our own military security.

Off topic, I can't understand why, when pirates and hackers and the like are caught, they're not offered a deal where they come and work for the good guys, either searching for weak spots in security, or showing how to make stuff less easy to pirate.
 

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I have a pretty good knowledge about AS because I did a three years education in working with handicapped people in general. I learned about most mental and physical disabilities.
Aboout myself, I share some of the characteristics, like having only a few good friends, being awkward about strangers, I don´t like going on parties and stuff - I just don´t like people all that much, that´s how I use to phrase it. But otherwise I am totally fine and I never thought about getting a diagnosis. I don´t want to blame my poor social skills on a self-diagnosed disease that makes other people suffer quite a lot.
 

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Thgere are many forms of autism and auctaully y brother is sevierly autistic and can't talk. Most people who have aspergers may never know. My bro can't talk or funtion properly. Your not that bad off but I'll hold from saying that because I don't know you story or situation.
 

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Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
Thgere are many forms of autism and auctaully y brother is sevierly autistic and can't talk. Most people who have aspergers may never know. My bro can't talk or funtion properly. Your not that bad off but I'll hold from saying that because I don't know you story or situation.
I would defiantly agree with you there. I knew someone who was Autistic when I was younger which makes me realise how lightly I've been let off.

Living with AS is simply a lifestyle. Living with Autism is clearly far worse.
Not to say that AS is easy to live with, in fact I had a pretty bad childhood because of it.
But now I'm an adolescent, I have grown out of many of the problems AS can cause and have stopped using it as an excuse for everything, and once you hit that stage, it's clear that your rough childhood is nothing in comparison what other people have to put up with.
 

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galdon2004 said:
i have it, since i have no real personal experience not being me, i don't really feel like i know what exactly it does outside of the symptoms my doctors say while sounding like they are just describing me >_>

its better than being misdiagnosed with ADD and forced to take Ritalin though >_>
thats how i felt when i was first diagnosed 2 years ago, until i started researching the symptoms. studying it made me realized how closely asperger syndrome was related to every aspect of my life. everything from my clumsyness, my social awkwardness, my odd(often negative) school habits, why i enjoy things like videogames and computers so much, basicly everything that i am.

i'd suggest you maybe try researching Asperger Syndrome,
(the one site i have been recommending to learn about aspergers is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome , probably because its one of only few good sites about aspergers i know, and i felt the info to be very accurate. tho i'd still suggest u look at some other sites or books as well)
 

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I don't have it. But sometimes I wish I did. Aspergers is a mental disorder. As with all mental disorders if you have it you are exempt form the rules of society. You can act however you want and nobody blames you for it. I know it sounds cold-hearted, but it's true. I could act like an ass and get away with it. And I'd still be in school.