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- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -4/+101That's not fair. He was obviously Goodenough.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -2/+83People with aspergers have poor social skills, not a low IQ
- SalmonGod, on 07/04/2009, -2/+80I have a brother with Asperger's. I can say from experience that this kind of story isn't unusual. They're really smart kids. They're not disabled. They're just different.
I wouldn't even call most socially detached or inhibited, they just process social situations differently. They're usually more focused, literal, and straightforward. Those aren't even bad qualities. It just becomes a problem when they fail to be diplomatic. One of the biggest problems for them that I've noticed through stories and observation of my brother is that social norms are incredibly nuanced by selective dishonesty. My brother loves people and has tried really hard over the years to make friends and mesh with peers, but he just can't make a good first impression. As soon as people recognize that he's different because of his mannerisms or he accidentally offends someone by telling a joke in bad taste or mentioning a touchy subject with the wrong company, he's shunned. He makes people uncomfortable, even though to my knowledge he's never shown ill will to anyone.
Many autistics are painfully lonely, which leads to depression and underachievement despite greater potential than an average person. It doesn't help that most of the world thinks they should be drugged into oblivion in attempts to make them 'normal.' My brother went through several medications and the one that improved his behavior the most also made him sleep like 16 hours a day and refuse to eat. His grades shot up and he got picked on less, but he was miserable and wasting away. After taking the stuff for several months, he quit like halfway through his senior year and told me later that he barely felt like a human being when he was on it. For what? What could possibly justify doing that to anyone who isn't a violent psychopath?
It seems to me like there's lack of patience and an over-abundance of snap judgement in our culture, which leads to a lot of tragedy and human waste. Whenever I read these stories, I just boil inside. - Brasolis, on 07/04/2009, -0/+61I don't believe in stupid people, but clearly they exist.
- jeffiek, on 07/04/2009, -1/+58Yes, you do.
He does the work. He gets the grades. He doesn't disrupt the class. He's just a little different.
Big ***** deal.
From what I've read about UK schools, and first hand knowledge of US schools, he should be the last one left out. - marytormey, on 07/04/2009, -2/+51It's good to see people are realizing that these kids have potential.
Some of these kids get put in public institutions and are force fed drugs till they die. - davidw00t, on 07/04/2009, -4/+41Not really that uncommon for somebody with Asperger's to get straight-a's...it is suspected that Bill Gates and Einstein have/had it.
- AndrewDB, on 07/04/2009, -1/+35Defuser, we, the people of the asperger's syndrome, autistic trait, are not *****, we just don't understand how to socially interact with "normal" human beings.
We don't get jokes, or we tell the wrong type of joke at the wrong time, we appear shyer than normal, we're quieter than normal. We're just.. different.
Kindly back away from calling the people of the Asperger's Syndrome DSMV diagnosis ***** until you truly know how it affects them. - staystilljason, on 07/04/2009, -0/+33you're an idiot
- JohnP, on 07/04/2009, -2/+31Digg has officially gone to *****. The balance has been tipped. >50% of comments are now outright offensive or stupid.
- rocknog, on 07/04/2009, -3/+32What the *****? Like half the comments are just people randomly lashing out at the very notion that Asperger's is a legitimate condition.
- AndrewDB, on 07/04/2009, -0/+28***** you.
- davidw00t, on 07/04/2009, -1/+29Was spewing your ignorance twice in one page really necessary? Asperger's has nothing to do with being mentally retarded; it is simply a lack of development in the ability to socialize with other human beings.
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.htm ... - fracaso089, on 07/04/2009, -1/+27my brother has asperger's and he has absolutely zero social skills. smart kid, but he just can't figure out how to deal with people
- richirwin, on 07/04/2009, -0/+26I like names that describe the person talking.
- Rich Reallylongdick - rocknog, on 07/04/2009, -0/+24As social animals, we are born with an innate ability to observe and pick up social cues. It's like learning to speak. You don't need to be explicitly taught it, it just comes naturally. In the case of someone with asperger's, however, this doesn't happen. In order for a person with asperger's to learn a social cue, he needs to have it explicitly pointed out.
- LemonMachete, on 07/04/2009, -3/+25Too easy.
- MWeather, on 07/04/2009, -1/+22Uh, aspergers generally means you have MORE creativity, not less. Case in point, the first ***** paragraph of this article.
- inactive, on 07/04/2009, -1/+22Someone had to do it.
- davidw00t, on 07/04/2009, -0/+19Having asperger's doesn't mean having more or less creativity than the average person, it's just an inability to read social cues, often accompanied by obscure obsessions, absent-mindedness, and monotone voice. There are different varieties and degrees of it, though, so it differs from person to person.
- avidlinuxuser, on 07/04/2009, -0/+18This kid wasn't allowed into the local school. He spent most of his days studying, and he will have quite a few a levels complete really soon. Yeah, this kid is really lazy.
- davidw00t, on 07/04/2009, -1/+19Thanks for spreading your ignorant opinion on the subject, it really helps all of those who actually have Asperger's.
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Also, before you become an expert on a syndrome, you might want to learn how to spell it. - u8eR, on 07/04/2009, -0/+18Read the article.
- MWeather, on 07/04/2009, -1/+19Autism is a myth? Good luck with that.
- davidw00t, on 07/04/2009, -0/+18You were misdiagnosed with it, so the disease must not exist. Flawless reasoning there.
- AndrewDB, on 07/04/2009, -3/+21I find it amusing that a lot of diggers are so hateful of Asperger's Syndrome, yet, if they probably took DSMV testing they'd probably find that they've got a lot of autistic traits themselves.
And yes, I am Autistic, I'm a proud autistic, I give speeches at my local college about how it affects my life, and I will continue to do so until the day I die. - HimThatSpeaks, on 07/04/2009, -1/+18There is a diagnosis for anyone that has any characteristics that fall out of the norm. That is all a diagnosis is. A parent says "My child is different? What classification can you give my child so I can understand how they are different and how to help them?" My daughter has a very mild form of Aspergers and I assure you she is different. She fixates on things and is intensely consumed with them through EVERY waking moment, such as anything associated with horses. She is different. Aspergers is what you call it when someone fails to keep eye contact, has lower than normal social skills, typically below average communication skills, such as the formation of sentences. She usually has a set number of responses instead of generating real sentences. Her vocalization also varies greater than most children. Your parents wanted to know why you were different and how they can learn to best help you. Stop fighting them on the issue and you may end up helping yourself.
- Hieber, on 07/04/2009, -3/+20Long ass read, but well worth the time. Don't discriminate, only haters do that.
- Divals, on 07/04/2009, -0/+16@Defuser - The funny thing is that you're being an ***** right now. Do you have this Fake Asperger's you seem to have made up?
- rocknog, on 07/04/2009, -0/+16Dyslexics can be eventually be taught to read, too. Doesn't mean dyslexia isn't a real condition.
- Eurynom0s, on 07/04/2009, -1/+17I'm often suspect of diagnoses like Asperger's but this sounds like a genuine case. It's often used as an excuse for something else, but autism really is a spectrum and this kid sounds like a classic case.
- plaguepony, on 07/04/2009, -1/+16It is a reference to "The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time" a book.
- AndrewDB, on 07/04/2009, -0/+15As someone who has Asperger's, I can tell you it is not a myth.
- SalmonGod, on 07/04/2009, -0/+15Condition is too easy to take as derogatory. Cancer is a condition. Down's Syndrome is a condition. Autistics aren't disabled. They're just wired differently. They don't process things the same way as most people. This is why they came up with a bunch of terminology related to neurodiversity.
The thing is, most people share a base level of common mental operation. Our society's social norms are built up around the social development patterns of the majority of people, and the majority adapts to them normally without any issues. Things just fit.
Autistics don't share this base level of similarity. They don't naturally adapt to social norms, because they were designed for people like us, not them. They don't fit. Our society is a round hole and they're a square peg. That doesn't mean they're wrong, dysfunctional, ill, or bad people. They can even learn to interact with us normally, and I've met an autistic who went from completely medicated misfit to unmedicated, slightly eccentric. I knew him for a year before I learned he was autistic. It just takes a focused effort for them to figure out how we function socially. They have to look at how we behave in an analytical fashion and teach themselves how to immitate it, where you and I just do it because it's natural for us. - AndrewDB, on 07/04/2009, -1/+16I have the disorder, you ignoramus.
I can tell you it effects my life in more ways than your feeble mind could comprehend. - HimThatSpeaks, on 07/04/2009, -2/+17Faking? Are you ***** serious? Children as young as two have learned all about this psychological condition and somehow are able to perfectly act it out!!! It is all a conspiracy by a bunch of kids starting at age 2!!!
- SalmonGod, on 07/05/2009, -1/+15*****? Can you explain your motivation for calling autistics *****?
- Jaime2000, on 07/04/2009, -1/+15What the ***** is it about, then?
Unless the class is set up in such a way that understanding and skill of the subject matter isn't the primary factor in getting good grades (for instance, getting A's in Physical Education for dressing out, wtf?), grades demonstrate the ability and knowledge that the student has of the subject in question. And that is what school is about, learning new ideas and abilities and demonstrating that you know them. It's not about pep rallies or extra curricular activities or school dance or socializing or school sports any of that *****. - avidlinuxuser, on 07/04/2009, -0/+14Someone didn't actually read or has really crappy reading comprehension. How a school not allowing a student to attend turns into the student dropping out is beyond me.
- PsychoBrat, on 07/05/2009, -1/+14Asperger syndrome != mental retardation
- diggduggjoe, on 07/04/2009, -0/+12He has a disability. He cannot form normal social bonds and will tend to overdue any assignment. Most teachers love conformists. This kid stuck out and the teachers in the regular school did not seem to like it.
Asperger's is a tough situation. You are technically well equipped to know stuff, but likely unable to work in groups to fully utilize your knowledge. It is a shame, really. Hopefully we can learn how to work with them, since the regular people will be more able to bend to meet their needs than the other way around.
- renegadeafk, on 07/04/2009, -0/+12You're an ignorant douchebag Xihix
- AndrewDB, on 07/04/2009, -1/+13Only if you're an ignorant *****, which you obviously are.
- AndrewSnook, on 07/04/2009, -0/+12Jesus, how ignorant can you get?
- charlie55, on 07/04/2009, -9/+21digg loves aspergers stories because every kid on digg thinks he is a misunderstood genius.
- inactive, on 07/05/2009, -0/+12When I first read about Aspergers syndrome I though that I might have it, but it turns out I just hate most people because they are ***** idiots.
- sulthernao, on 07/04/2009, -0/+11Did you even read the god damn article moron? The schools wouldn't let him in, the kid himself was fine. He even denounced the title Asperger's because he felt that it was a label.
His general douchebaggery? Where did you even get that inclination. Seemed like a nice kid to me. - offthewagon, on 07/04/2009, -2/+13naw, an average person would know to write "an" before a word starting with a vowel.
FACE - diggduggjoe, on 07/04/2009, -1/+12Obviously, you are clueless or a troll. My nephew has autism and it is so crazy dealing with him. At times he will interact with you, other times it is like you don't exist. He is not stupid, without verbal communication he has learned how to cook some of his favorite foods and is capable of sign language.
These conditions are difficult. People form bonds that is entirely beyond their comprehension. It is like being a non-stop douche-bag without being able to help it. You may have an understanding about that though. - Groovydoo, on 07/04/2009, -1/+12We have a guy at work who is in the closet about his Aspergers and he rocks the place. He is running QA now and those that don't know it think he is just socially eccentric.
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