On The Aspie Side Of Normal

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hey, look! The internet says I have Aspberger’s:



Of course, the internet also assures me that time is a four-sided cube, that DnD is a Satanic training program, that Jennifer Saunders is going to be the next Doctor on Doctor Who, that all heterosexual sex is rape, and that Moulin Rouge is a good movie,* so I take what the internet says with a grain of salt.

On the other hand, I do know a few people who’d believe it about me. Mom says I do act a little strange.

Wanna know if you have Aspberger’s? Here. Knock yerself out.  Be warned, some of the the questions are a little vague.


*No, really, all of these are real claims I have seen on the internet. Even the last one. Crazy, huh? 

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

They just say that because you and I are very logical and meticulous people with a personal understanding of cultural relativism, and those narrow-minded slobs are jealous of us, is what. :D

My therapist didn't agree with the mental hospital therapist's diagnosis that I had Asperger's. He said that my problem wasn't that I didn't understand social conventions, it was that I didn't agree with them.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

YEAH! Perhaps it is THEY who are atypical! :D

I guess that falls into that one question about having views that are "far ahead" of your time. (Which always confuses me, because it suggests that ideologies have a linear progression through time. Some of my "progressive" ideas smack of Ancient Rome, actually.)

Aspberger's is one of those fuzzy diagnoses. I do think there are some genuine cases, but it's become one of those blanket terms for a whole host of things. So I can see how it would get a little complicated to figure out.