aspergers

Hi, good people. A recent thread about obsessive/compulsive "disorder" got me to thinking about human whackiness, in general, versus specific whackiness, and how it relates to the general consensus of opinion. I used to work with autistic kids, care-giving in a group home. Some of them may as...

The rate of diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorders has been increasing exponentially since the 1970's. Numbers rose from circa 1 in 5000 children <diagnosis by age 8> to about 1 in 88 in 2012, as estimated by a CDC study. I don't have over 15 posts yet, so just google the number if you want to...

As a person who almost certainly falls on the autism spectrum, I am tired of various misunderstandings about this condition. The most alarming of them all is that we should be "normalized" and this can be achieved by forcing us into social situations in which we feel very uncomfortable. Although...

According to This Wikipedia Article, Hans Asperger was born on February 18, 1906. He is the man credited with being the first to identify Asperger's Syndrome. On that day, I intend to stay at home and contribute nothing to the economy. This is my small way of showing people what the world...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/ I don't like the idea of a government entity picking people up and institutionalizing them like this, no matter how friendly and caring the hospital staff is. I also have a real problem with calling this a disorder. Its not a disorder, its an...

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php My score: I probably do act like someone with Aspergers in a room full of strangers. I feel quite differently when I'm with folks I know and like and can be myself around. http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html While I'm not into self...

A kindergarten teacher had her class criticize a classmate, a 5-year old boy believed to have Asperger's, a variety of autism, and then made the class vote on whether he should leave the class. The kids voted against the autistic boy, 14 - 2. His one friend in the class at first voted in...

I had never heard of this condition before, but saw this on another site and thought it might be appropriate to post some of it here. It opened my eyes to a few things and made me interested in finding out more. The official criteria needed to be diagnosed with Asperger's are as follows: A...