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[Josh Dersch]

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:
>
>> 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".

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


> 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
>
>