Aspergers is a fake disease.

Girlfriend...it is not about FAULT...not in real life anyway. Some of us are just different than others. Who decides what is 'the norm' and what is not? Who evaluates THEM???
Here's a clue...stay off ALL drugs...Stay away from 'shrinks'...They're not called 'shrinks' for nothing! Applies not only to your bank account but also the size of your BRAIN.
Just sayin'.....

Why OP, do you think you may have it then?

I cannot believe that someone as intelligent as a neuroscientist had time to post such an informative debate in regards to whether or not Aspergers is real. It was a real treat to read all of your evidence disproving the "theory" of Aspergers. Your medical information including studies of the brain that you provided to back it up was exquisite. Oh wait you are not a neuroscientist and you never conducted any studies? You mean you are just an ignorant moron that has never achieved anything in life and holds the intellectual capacity of a substandard species? Yeah that makes more sense.

How about brilliant kids with high IQs that usually end up knowing more about the subject matter than the teacher?

Obviously you know nothing about Aspergers.

I don't think it is. Maybe the number has increased?

I'm not sure, if my Aspie son is going to learn to drive. He's brilliant, but has a one track mind. He's not observant enough to drive. I'm really down about it.

Maybe you should do a search on who has had it. Famous people.

Also, you should see my son. He's good looking

your mom is a fake disease.

Fake answer. Your job is done here.

It is fake. it is a blacklist against you. And "Hans Asperger" was a quack.

Wow, and I thought Americans had gotten over their moronic discriminating barbarism more than forty years ago. Apparently mindless idiots still exist. Tell me this Einstein, what possible reason could anyone have for wanting a life void of meaningful social interaction, isolation, humiliation brought on by a NEUROLOGICAL difficulty with social skills? We with Asperger's are and will always be stronger than dumbasses like you, because we have to live in a world with you in it.

I agree.

Aspergers is just another word for 'Ignorant Bastard'

None of you have Assburgers. None of your kids have Assburgers. No one you know has Assburgers. Assburgers does not exist.

If your doctor thinks you have cancer he can put you through the MRI and say "You have cancer, I can be sure of this because I've found cancerous cels in your body".

But there is no evidence that Assburgers exists. It's just an excuse for bad or obsessive behavoir. Do yourselves a favour and stop blaming your shortcommings on a fictacious illness.

This is VERY interesting.

I assumed many of the people that visit these types of sites have what is called "Aspergers".

I also think it is not a disease but rather an attitude by people who think they are too intelligent for the rest of society. "They are above worrying about others feelings" etc...

After reading the comments here I think I was right.

Tell that to someone who works with kids with Asbergers. And then duck.

Duck, exactly... the people who claim that it is a disease want to give the "unruly" children an excuse for misbehaving.
The don't want to correct the BAD behavior. Thus, the kids grow up thinking that they have an excuse for mis-behaving.

It's a self fulfilling prophesy.

Well whatever it's called, this condition is very real and not a trendy thing to label oneself with. Overstimulation from what others consider normal starts from infancy, hence preferring to be alone. Anything from bright lights, crowds, noisy places can be a living hell for someone who lives with sensory issues. School is where we learned to cope.

They used to call us "gifted."

Aspergers is a fake disease.

Who the fuck is this news to?

No...

They USED to call you spoiled...

You cannot spell.

That is all.

At what point did anyone say or intimate that they were threatened by people with "Aspergers Syndrome " ???

There is no threat.
It is merely just another "SYNDROME" giving an excuse for poor behavior.

Slow kids? Ha, ha that's funny. Most of them are brilliant! Much smarter than you.

Aspergers is bullshit. But the kids aren't always the ones who said they have it and being labeled that doesn't make them assholes. In the past, I've used the school system's bullshit to get by or let off easy.

Aspergers is defined, analyzed and labeled with social characteristics that some are typical childish for kids; some are are stereotypes for "nerds," "geeks," "dorks," and "smart-asses;" some of them are based on how you get along with others and some are based on what the hell parents and teachers and damn classmates say about you. Some people know it as a disorder, some "infected" know it as a "gift," I know it as bullshit that I used to get by, get off easy and as excuse my having been a jerk to other kids.

The big thing is that, even though a dictionary, or teacher or the internet may say it's a disability, that's self-contradictory regarding the statement. A disability is what you get from powerful drugs. A mental disability or disorder is when you CAN'T learn how and do academic, social and intellectual stuff other people can and you can't help it because you were born that way. And while there is no physical or mental description/function/evidence of Asperger's and it's not a "big disability," that goes two ways- someone diagnosed with Asperger's could have any REAL disorder or no disorder. The fact is, it's in the way of solving real problems and people believing you have Asperger's is a problem because their attitude and way of treating you is different. For example, if people diagnose a kid with Asperger's at a young age, when they're just a kid being kid and people see it worse than that, they'll treat the child differently and he'll grow up differently.

Some of the said "symptoms of Asperger's" are getting caught up in one thing, easily distracted, not following instructions, not understanding why they have to act like anyone else, being rude and disrespectful, breaking school rules, anxiety, irritability, hyperactivity, daydreaming, being childish, doing more intellectual stuff than social stuff and overall isolation.
(1) People getting caught up in one thing and getting distracted in a goddamn school, in my opinion can happen because some kids are smarter, or more mentally independent than others, or just simply have different talents or interest than others. It's unique, not necessarily autistic or anything close. (2) All kids break the rules, it's really who gets caught. That's not street-smarts bullshit, that's true. First off, the school, the rules, a lot of teachers and a lot of the kids are fucked up. Secondly, I know it's true from experience, having seen all kids break rules and I'd say most of the violations aren't caught and punished. One time, I challenged one of my teachers to tell my of one kid that never got in trouble and the kids she pointed to a some kids I had seen break rules that she hadn't and that had gotten ME in trouble. And after you get caught, it's the ones that argue that are suspected of having a disorder. (3) Things that are between two people have two sides as do things between many people have many sides. You can't judge a person just for getting in trouble or just for being in a fight or just for breaking rules. (4) Different people are irritable to different things. (5) People who are isolated are often misunderstood. Isolation, behavior problems, social problems, anger, depression, secrets, all of that goes hand in hand. It's common problems people suffer from. (6) Asperger's is a label for kids who see things differently, tell it like it is or aren't "politically correct," or don't think like their parents or the school wants them to think. These kids sometimes say things people don't want them to, like this fucking post.

Are you the same person who thinks fibromyalgia is fake too?
What's up with these people without medical training deciding whether diseases and disorders are fake or real?

No, it definitely is not fake. Some may be misdiagnosed and actually have something else, but not fake.

Seems most posters here think ADHD and apsergers are the same.

They are not.

Give an ADHD child legos (or anything else) and he will be bored by it within 5 minutes.

Give an aspie child legos (or something else he has interest in) and you have to drag him to the table to eat .. 10 hours later.



The ADHD child will be annoying at school and miss what he should learn by being loud, the class clown ...

The aspie child will miss the lessons too, he will be to busy drawing cars, animals or sic-fi spaceships into his books to listen to the teacher.

I would rather be seen as weird than someone with asbergers, the name even sounds unflattering.

And many of us have ADHD.. A semi "made up" disorder, which is so farrr from Aspergers my mind is blown that somehow people confuse the two?

Last Edited by Patrick Bateman on 07/13/2012 08:58 AM

Soccer moms are to blame!