I feel I must apologize for the lack of updates the past week(s). Truth is I am in fact not unemployed, contrary to popular belief, and I have been rather busy and will continue to be so for the rest of the week. Hence, you may regard this as a filler article. In fact, the primary reason for this wall of text is to show you I am still very much alive and updating. So I’m not going to teach you any valuable new life-lessons today, we’ll just have to make due with what we already know. Which is; delusional people.

I’m not going to repeat what Asperger’s syndrome is, view the link above if you are unenligthened. Today’s site is http://aspiesforfreedom.com/, a self-proclaimed support group for (self-diagnosed) autists who can blame all their failures on (often) non-existing conditions or syndromes. Here I’ll post a few extracts from their forum with my own comment added.

For future reference; Aspie = someone with(out) Asperger’s Syndrome and NT = ‘NeuroTypical’ (also known as ‘not retarded’).

Hey guys

Since April is Autism Awareness Month I was thinking I’d print out some flyers on AS/autism and hand them out at my uni. I really thought I had some saved on my computer as well, but now I can’t find them!

Does anyone have any they’d be willing to share, or lead me in the right direction?
Wait what? Autism Awareness Month? By this I’d like to propose December as world-Diabetes month and the first friday of every October as Cranial-Cancer Day. Also that is NOT going to make him popular.

That people like Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and almost all of the movers and shakers of the scientific world are alleged Aspies, as are many of the more famous writers, musicians, actors, and artists. Your world would be a shadow of itself without us.
(There are seemingly endless lists of famous Aspie names on the internet.

That we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel much more of the physical world than you do. We are ultrasensitive to soft sounds than you are. Many of us can hear high-pitched (ultrasonic) sounds that your ears are incapable of hearing. We are driven crazy by tiny pinpoints of light that you can’t even see. The seam in the bottom of our socks is very bothersome. (I’ll bet the princess in the “Princess and the Pea” fable was an Aspie.)
Besides the fact that the first part in blatanly untrue (not to mention it is rather impossible to tell, one can hardly psychologically diagnose a dead person), it is also completely irrelevant. For example; I have bloodtype A-, so had Adolf Hitler, George Bush senior and Britney Spears. Does this make me a facist pop-singer? Hardly.

The second part (paragraph) is simply false as well, aspies do not have super-senses. Ironically the last part may be true, but that’s simply called being obsessive.

And yes, many of us are clumsy. We walk funny. We are humiliated in our gym classes because we are usually the last people who are picked when the gym teacher tells his favorite “jocks” to choose up sides.

You know, I kinda figured out everyone understoon the principle behind this, but the reason the gym teacher allows the best players to pick teams is to prevent all of the star athletes from being in the same team. For a retarded super-genius the poster is not too bright. Also, having a dumb walk (bad motor-neurological skills) is in no way related to being scared to talk to people.

Our likes and dislikes are very different from yours. We could care less who wins the Superbowl or Wimbledon or the Stanley Cup. We like old coins and freight trains, and can drive you out of your mind by reciting an encyclopedic knowlege of the development of diesel locomotives.

Because ALL normal people care about sport and have the EXACT same hobbies. Only autists like coins, trains and weatherballoon spotting.

I’m having a meltdown tonight.  I’m so angry I can’t see straight, and basically it’s because I’m frustrated and depressed. I’m curious–does anyone else still have meltdowns (I say still because I’m an adult), and if so, what are they like?

I used to, whe I was six.

Some of us have imaginary friends, because either we may not have much of a social life, or because we have certain things in our mind that we don’t feel comfortable telling our real friends or family. Nobody should be quick to say “You have imaginary friends because you’ll never make any real friends.” I am 15 and i still have a few IFs; i talk to them in my bedroom when nobody is around. I don’t like telling my family members everything about my life, because they can be critical at times.

Holy shit people like this actually exist?! I always figured it was a sitcom stereotype.

Don’t abruptly change my routine or wonder why I can’t function well in an uncertain environment.

Actually this is true for 99% of the population.

We can do most things NTs can do; we can even do some things NTs can’t do.
Autism isn’t something that steals a person away–we’re still there, just not communicating efficiently.
We may not naturally know how to do some things, but we can learn what we don’t know.
We take joy in knowing that someone loves us.
1. I can do things you cannot do, and you (possibly) can do things I cannot do. This applies to everyone.
2. What good is a pearl if you can never reach it? What good is a coin that you can never spend? Or better yet, why should I value a silver coin I can only half-spend over a normal one?
3. ONLY AUTISTS CAN LEARN.
4. So does every sane person.

Well enough bashing for today, feel free to continue my crusade here.

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