Response, "People saying you don't have aspergers"

[Frizzurd]

yeah they say it is just psychobabble and does not exist. Whether it does or does not, i hate myself and i sure the hell am different.

[HanLw88]

great vid man ! big up to you . it sucks so bad when people throw that at me. instead of support on finding out i mostly got these reactions. and i lost alot of friends too. its been a hard couple of years . but eventually i'll get it right..

be good man!

[miasansom]

I get this all the time. I'm forty-three years old & have had a lifetime to become a master at imitation & blending in. My own boyfriend has to be reminded even after 2 years that I am not trying to be difficult or aloof, but that my communication style is different & I can not help it. It's so frustrating. My family doubts I have it, I feel as though none of them know me & don't care to if they can't even research the info about it & see that it's true, but only accuse me of pretending.

[Frizzurd]

It seems like "normal" people fall into three camps in how they view us. There are the Oprah-styled people who say all kinds of positive fluff about how we arnt pathetic and have a chance in this survival of the fit. Then there are the people who ignore the trouble we have and say we are just using it as an excuse not to do better, like we are just being lazy or some shit. and the last type are the people who just flat out think we are inferior.

[TheBeatlesFan420]

"You seem pretty normal to me." I HATE when people say that, and I also noticed the people who do say things like that seem very uninformed about AS.

[violinist881]

I love your confidence and attitute! Gee I wish I was like you:)

[Sexyhotcocoa]

i think people with "ass-burgers" (lol jk jk) are pretty cool. they see the world for what it really is. i understand that people with this syndrome cant really show some sort of emotion, but so called normal people can be overly dramatic about a whole lot of shit, and it doesnt make any sense. my sister is a fucking bitch and overly dramatic and i wish she had an ounce of this syndrome lol. but seriously, i think some AS people are pretty cool :)

[Aspanaut]

Lol!! This guy is like a mirror image of myself,besides the slightly fruity demeanor.

Hes learned to cope as i have,perhaps with a little more parental guidance,but hey he stays positive,isn't overly criticle about shit,and he looks like he gets out more then most of these self-loathing geeks.Sorry if i sound offensive.

[Frizzurd]

@Aspanaut Well arnt you so fucking superior

[Ihatemyusernamemore]

@Frizzurd I fully identify with his comment, I have memories of being a kid going to therapy groups and being bored shitless by the aspies in them who would be mega geeky and blame everyone of their shortcomings from being crap at sport and athleticism to not having friends to the fact that they happened to be being a huge dickhead on the day on their aspergers. People with aspergers like us have to work and study social skills, it's not impossible and it's definately worth it

[Frizzurd]

@Ihatemyusernamemore it is not so easy for everyone. I do not blame anyone for my inferiority. ...it sure the hell doesn't help when another fellow aspie gives people shit for being "fruity" as if there is something wrong with it.

[TheZodiak27]

@DeityofStuff i have asperger's, and i love asparagus, too! i wonder if there is a connection between the two? lmao. :P

[TheZodiak27]

@b2gregjockca stfu troll bitch

[misspinkpunkykat]

When people tell me I don't have Asperger's. I tell them that technicaly they are right becuase I didn't speak until I was four and aparently the only diffrence between AS and HFA is a speech delay. When people try to tell me I don't have autism, I ask them where they got their MD. That usually shuts them up.

[naharykia]

thank youuuuu!!!

[kcraig17]

my boyfriend has a mild sort i help him relax abt things he helps me bk he works part time so the guy knows wat he is talking abt so leave him alone

[stublue44]

you dont have it you are just lazy.try working and stop being a parasite.

[Tarquinbeaniebaby]

You've blagged it like I have so you can claim loads of disabilty benefits!! Just have the balls to admit it like I have you fucking scroungers !!

[marky24uk]

@Tarquinbeaniebaby  people with aspergers can work you prick, how dare you judge us.

[mylongbong]

my family says I can'y possibly be Aspie because Aspies jump up and down, say rude things and have tourrette syndrome like ticks (they said they didnt need bother reading about it, and that I am being too sensitive. Stop acting so feminine/introverted, why can't you be a man because I am not a man....~.~ This video has brought lot of clarity. I am going to go to a clinic and go see a therapist.

[popsunshinepop]

well said man. I support you.

[cealie9999]

Get with the freakin program. This guy is trying to help people identify with aspergers

syndrome. Go be rude to someElse, I bet you would kick a puppy.

[Shadowbonez]

I have a strange story. I know a guy who told me he has it, had a doctor tell him, but he thinks that my sensitivity is just a sign of weakness. He also cannot bring up a decent argument when it comes to being an intellectual. He even tries to deny that I am just as smart as him, if not more.

You guys have any thought's about this?

[a16gregjockca]

i heard this dude has died of aids. i read it in the new york times. so long, sick faggot kurt-lookalike freak. ROFL!

[lordthj]

@a16gregjockca

ROFLROFL!!1!1

n1 tr0ll BRO

[a16gregjockca]

@lordthj he was starting to look a little skinny towards the end. that's when he contracted the herpes in the bathhouse, methinks.

[lordthj]

@a16gregjockca

Ur fucking retarded. I was ironic with my last comment. Perhaps ur an Aspie too?

[a16gregjockca]

@lordthj no, i just don't give a fuck what you say. i spend a milisecond tops scanning your skanky worthless message and then i just flip you off, you sick worthless aspie pig. ROFL! YAY! death to aspies.

[Papanda1995]

@a16gregjockca I don't want to start anything, but that's offensive, and it's not funny. I'm a freshman and I was bullied from kindergarten-seventh grade because I was a quiet girl who had Asperger's and didn't know it. This kid used to beat me up and he even hit me in the head with a pipe and I had to get stitches, because I have Asperger's. I don't know why you're telling us to die, but it hurts seeing someone bash on the one thing that has already given me so much pain in my life :(

[mylongbong]

@a16gregjockca First, your usage of undercase "i" to refer to yourself, is a clear sign of low self confidence. Also, your failure to coherently back your argument up with structured logic and credible sources makes me seriously doubt you are even able to read anything beyond the first cover of the New York Times. Your myspace page photo looks horrendous, who are you to judge? I lol'd.

[alterbr33d]

1:30

Emulating how NTs act. You try to do or act the same way on the outside as everyone else, but internally the way you think about things hasn't changed that much.

You have to be gangsta like that, cause thats how you have to roll... or something...

Now lets say an aspie was home schooled all their life, they'll be more default.

[mewtard]

This isn't only a problem with Aspies, but with everyone. Men who look, dress, or have high voices are assumed to be homosexual. Some people assume that black people are supposed to be uneducated. And I told a friend that I had Asperger's, and she was shocked because she assumed that I would smell bad and be a social outcast. I didn't talk to her again after that.

[sukarita666]

@brutalsea1 I'm not sure of the accuracy... I can't say I agree exactly if that's what you mean.

[sukarita666]

@brutalsea1 aspergers isn't a mental illness, it's a neurological disorder, there's a profound difference.

[WhyDoUNeedSmack]

Well I had a friend she was a very very good friend she clamed to have AS. After a while we had a falling out (not because of "her as") but she is no longer my friend later we found out that she had been telling us lies, that she doesn't have AS at all! Sorry I think that's a really horrible thing to lie about! SHAME ON HER!

[petchharrison]

we are all diff and act not in the same way...thats ok...jeff

[fenoixrising]

wow you're cute...

[Akatosh86]

I completely understand what u're saying. I was born in a former USSR republic where there's no diagnosis for HFA.I wasn't born in Australia, we don't have Tony Attwood here :D anyway, if u have HFA, u know it - since the first grade! u just can't fit in, u want to but u can't.it's a pain in the ass and it's a pity that it has become a fashion statmenet

[Batman8657]

Asperger's doesn't exist. It's some made-up "syndrome" that was inexplicably given legitimacy in the politically correct feel-good 90s. It gives self-absorbed douchebag retards the world over an excuse for their life failings. Everybody in the world exhibits symptoms of this fake "disease." Whenever someone claims to have it, they're attention whores looking for pity because the world isn't their oyster.

[ignoranttwat]

@Batman8657

I totally used to believe that.

[mewtard]

@Batman8657 "and excuse for life failings". Actually a lot of people with Asperger's, or were said to have it, include Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and 8 other US presidents. Ludwig Van Beethoven was also said to have Asperger's. A lot of people with Asperger's have been successful. And it's not a "disease". People who call it a disease are ignorant. Please learn what Asperger's is before you start attacking it.

[Batman8657]

@mewtard Yeah, I know. In a couple years they'll invent a new disease and all the geniuses of the past will suddenly have it too. Get real.

I know it's not a disease because in order for a disease to be a disease, it has to exist. Since it doesn't exist, it's not a disease. You're right about that. Thanks.

And I've learned was Assburgers is - it's called being a human being. Suck it the fuck up and deal with this thing called life, you silly asspie.

[mewtard]

@Batman8657 Saying there is no such thing as Asperger's, you're just ignorant. Attacking a group of people because of your beliefs is evil. You are nothing but a bigot and a troll with nothing else to do.

[mewtard]

@Batman8657 Oh, and by the way. Asperger's was not "invented". It is a REAL neurological disorder, and has been proven to exist.

[mylongbong]

@Batman8657 Following the logic in your argument, Aspergers does exist in your brain (the Aspie brain is different from the average and it is classified as a disorder by professionals) therefore it is a disease. However, there are camps where Aspergers is not considered to be a disorder but rather a diversity. I think it's pretty hilarious when people act so insecure around different people, it just highlights their own personal insecurity and project to others to feel more secure :)

[Batman8657]

@mylongbong There are other professionals who dispute the idea of Aspergers being any type of unique syndrome as hogwash. I happen to side with them.

If you're calling me insecure for having my own opinion on this and not keeping it to myself, I could say the same about you. Because to me, that's the same bullshit as when a fan of some musicians calls others who are not a fan "jealous." It's a cop-out argument rooted in non-logic.

[mylongbong]

@Batman8657 You did not indicate intially that you sided with professionals who had differing views on Asperger syndrome of being a legitimate disorder or not. You emphasized your personal feelings about what Asperger is into your argument which clearly is a tall tale sign of insecurity around this matter. I am only pointing out that there's clear shortcomings in the quality of your argument in convincing people that Asperger is indeed not a disorder.

[a12gregjockca]

@brutalsea1 aspies should be eaten by maggots. YAY!

[DChatc]

@a12gregjockca: "Should". Should? I thought this was survival of the fittest. It's not about should or ought or what have you, this is about WILL, and our's is stronger and more triumphant than yours.

Get back to mopping-up vommit in the halls of Conestoga.

[a12gregjockca]

@DChatc oh yeah, i totally agree but i'm just saying that FOR MY PERSONAL PLEASURE, i'd like to see aspies herded into a gladitorial area and confined there as genetically engineered, ravinous, flesh-eating maggots tear away at their skin and "recycle" them into gardening compost. of course, we both know that aspies WILL however be inevitably destroyed by their own inferiority. lulz. we're on the same page here, dude.

[a12gregjockca]

aspies are sociopaths and crazies. LOL!

[Randidos]

You know!

[richbebo]

AMEN Bro, i agree, u have a hard life fitting in over something thats not your fault and then when u finnaly can some dickhead tells u you got some imaginary desease, they can "fuck off"

[lethomia]

Babe its also annoying how many people want this trendy label now. Look deep down why the need to have such a label. Forget the labels just do what you got to do to function in society.

[DChatc]

@lethomia: A great reason is jealoussly - A false "Aspie" is somewaht similar to the Waebo/Wapanese phenomena, where someone with low self-esteem latches onto a foreign identity in hopes that the accomplishments of said group will reflect upon him or herself.

He will parade all over the place about how he has Aspergers and how this makes him into an eccentric 'genious' when in realitly he was little more than a clever exhibitionist to his many, MANY acquaintences.

[a12gregjockca]

@DChatc hahaha, in a paragraph, you totally exposed the aspie fraud. well done, sir.

[DChatc]

@lethomia: This is contrast with someone who truly has Aspergers. What is unusual here is not always the interests themselves, but the dedication the Asperger will put into them. This is because his brain has no highways, so everything depends on a string of short-cuts, so he cannot expend much energy on other roads for everthing is about mapping-out the way to point-b.

He also not many friends because they seem wild and careless and unpredictable compared to him, accidents waiting to happen.

[LindaBTP]

I liked that :) No, you don't seem to have asperger's either, but that just brings hope to the future asperger's people :)

[luky7s]

I'm totally with you brother. Aspie or NT tend to beleev everyone else must be just like them. We have to accept diversity and difference. We're all similar, but all unique too.

[KiZZyKatCuTie]

i agree with u x im an aspie too and no one picks up on it with me mostly x ur video was great :)

[KieranD212]

People say that i have nothing wrong with me other days they say there is something wrong with you mate, i dont give a fuck anymore coz i know my problems and i try deal with them as best i can in a situation.

Aspergers from personal experience everyone has similar symptoms yet they are all individual. Another thing people forget is that people have symptoms to different degrees. A lot of people you cant even tell they have it because it doest show or that they manage the condition well.

[abbeyism]

Love it.

[lu4y4pants]

Reminds me of a pie chart I made titled How People React when I say I have Aspergers. I put a green sliver meaning "Oh so THAT' why she's strange." A blue chunk meaning, What's that?" And the rest of the graph red meaning,"Assburgers?" I thought is was funny, but I had bullying comments, and Aspies yelling at the bullies, and it was such an enormous mess that soon my graph was taken off the website. What bigots start, huh?

[Doofdoofstudios]

I'm an aspy as well and I hate all of thoes people who say that and so many people call me names like assbugers and aspy fuc i just wanna kill them a kid at my school called me that and I punched him in the face

[lu4y4pants]

@Doofdoofstudios I don't think the word "Aspie" is offensive...

[tarantulady]

I repeat the same random phrases over and over too xD I didn't notice the "You know" till I read comments.

People who sit and try and diagnose others suck. They don't know what is going on in someone's mind.

[tarantulady]

@MrA5gregjockca Some people will do or say anything for attention. That's so sad.

[a9gregjockca]

@tarantulady i know, you ARE sad. get the fuck out of here before you're shamed.

[crabcakessuzie]

maybe he doesn't have asperger's. maybe it's just gas or something?

[a2gregjockca]

if this aspie asshole says "y'know" what more fucking time, i swear i'll track down his address and punch him str8 in the face. what an annoying voice!! he talks like a frog.

[arizonabay15]

@a2gregjockca Yeah, if we're giving out addresses here, what's your's Greg? Gettin' brave all of a sudden, son...... y'know?

[peppermintmochas]

@a2gregjockca that's horrible. I'd like to see if you got diagnosed with it or your kids/grandkids etc got diagnosed. What if you got hit by a car tomorrow and were mentally handicapped all your life? You really need to think about things and put yourself in other people's shoes before you say anything else, at all, about anything. Stop being such an attention whore and go work in the food pantry or something.

[peppermintmochas]

@a6gregjockca I hope that you're happy, sitting behind your little computer desk calling people names and eating your kid's meal. You seem like a real intelligent and mature person. Why don't you just stop being an insecure bastard and get a life? I gave you way more attention than you deserve and I won't continue to reply. I am actually the mature one, and can stop a fight. Get a life.

[xdr8390]

@a2gregjockca I can twat you easily if you want some you NT faggot

[a9gregjockca]

@xdr8390 that must be some kind of sad aspie humour, slut. LOL! nice try but you just pissed your pants on that one.

[DChatc]

@a9gregjockca: Obvioussly you've been busy, I wonder how long it will be until every library barrs your homeless ass.

[a9gregjockca]

@xdr8390 as if, fat bitch. one punch in the face and you're comatose... then again, you're already a worthless aspie so what's a little added retardation? LOL!

[ninjaman1138]

you know

[Adagiofication]

Just out of curiosity, what (Aspergian) symptoms do you show, or have shown?

I totally agree with you when it comes to that there isn't an absolute way the AS-tendencies makes its way up your behavior/tendencies, many around me don't think i've Asperger's Syndrome, and it's really annoying, makes me feel like a complete douch.

[Euterpe001]

I'm going to get a bottle of Jack Daniels and every time you say 'you know' imma gonna take a shot,

[Adagiofication]

Refusing to recognize or acknowledge other people's empirical proof is hypocracy, and moronic, especially when the person don't have anything to back-up the statement.

[a2gregjockca]

you're not aspie. you're just a hippy fuckhead with a hypocondriac problem. you really need to lay off the pot then you'd be normal (well not really but i was just trying to encourage you to get a job, you fucking bum.) ROFL!!!

[DChatc]

@a2gregjockca: speak for yourself, you sure do have enough free time to get yourself suspended repetedly. I wonder how long it will be until you hold the record for being banned from every library in Kitchener...

[rcleverett]

Like this very much. Keep talking!

[Euterpe001]

I've never been diagnosed and I just recently discovered what it is but I have many of the symtoms of A.S. I had tons of problems with social interactions as a child and my parents assume I was ADD or something. It probably worried them when I refused to even hug my relatives. I went through therapy and am ok around people now but still feel the need to get away from crowds.

[wendy3711]

if a person with asperger's gets social training does that mean they no longer suffer from that aspect of asperger's and to that degree they don't have asperger's any longer?

[mbncd]

Social training is to teach social skills but just because you learn the fact that "smile=happy" doesn't mean you necessarily understand it or that you can translate that into other situations. There is no cure, there are just ways to replace instinctual knowledge with facts you've been taught. Some things are hard to learn though; like if you think about sarcasm, it's easy to see how it can go over the head of someone who doesn't know if what you're saying is true.

[mbncd]

Oh, and I think social training covers some coping mechanisms so that you can pretend to understand even if you don't, sort of fudging things with non-committal answers and stuff to buy time until you can figure it out in your own time or from further conversation.

I never got social skills training though so that is just inferred and from what I've heard.

[ThePuppetgirl12]

me and my brother have it

[metaliggy]

Oy, thank you. I'm an asparagus (my term for it, since spell-check doesn't recognize Aspergian), but I'm terrible at science an math. Rather, I focus on writing, acting, and humor. I know asparagus's are supposed to have terrible senses of humor, but lots of people I know disagree (not to brag, but I am an American). Also, I draw maps. And caves. And seas. Yet my grade in Geography is rock-bottom. Sentence fragment.

[JesusOurSalvation]

I was saying this comment to two different people-( sorry for repeating myself.)

[JesusOurSalvation]

Yes, sorry that i repeated this comment -

i repeat myself without realising that i have done so , sometimes/ often. (An A.S. trait that i have .)

[JesusOurSalvation]

what do you mean by this, please ?

[JesusOurSalvation]

I agree with what you are saying. I have Asperger's. We are all individuals on the Spectrum.

(Although you are angry and i understand this, Please do not swear on your video,i think that it is unnecessary .)

[JesusOurSalvation]

why the swearing , please. Unnecessary.

[jaydy11]

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[DChatc]

We can than expect Aspergers' (or even "Autism") to become less obvious and "dissapear" with aggrogate data, as the AS brain hypothesizes upon an established knowlege base rather than real time stimuli before making a decision (this may be why "autism" is so often associated with children, as it seems quite commonly outgrown by adulthood, given an especially firm upbringing).

This emphasis on knowledge, theory and hypothesis explaines the divergence with NTs; who operate on blind instinct.

[rpm2004]

Totally agreed, learning what to do in a given situation and doing it automatically are the same to an outside observer.

[DChatc]

The big difference between and NT and someone with AS is in the neuromorphology and subsequent operations. An AS brain is larger than normal, it also has a something of a splattered corpus colassum, with the white matter distributed widely throughout individual cerebral lobes:

Both these indicate that an AS brain behaves more like a computer in that it mainly STORES information and is overall highly decentralized; accounting for the specialized and awkward tendencies found in AS.

[DChatc]

I often fear similar reactions because I AM socially aware, can feign a limited ammount of small talk (cringe) and can stare people in the eyes when I need to develope a connection with or just INTIMIDATE them...

There's a point where AS cannot be told appart from a cursery glance because the real difference is in the learning and processing of data (NTs behave almost wholly on instincts which they themselves don't understand), and subsequently our value-system (we had todevelope DISCIPLINE).

[soulhaxor]

are you the aspergers president? It looks like your on a crusade against aspergers, my cousin john weeks has aspergers and he annoys me all the time and shit he watches cartoons and has no friends and always is hostile, but he denys he has aspergers and threatens to kill us when we get high and say he has aspergers, all my friends i go to chill with always tell me not to bring john, also he dosnt WORK eats all my fucking food, i believe instead of a cure there should be programs that train them.

[dalektaliban]

maybe you need training

[yarrboots]

It's "high functioning autism", according to the scientificos. I don't have a formal diagnosis, but I've been doing some research on Aspergers on my own, and it explains a lot of my tendencies.

Aspergers people look just like everybody else. We're just as articulate as neurotypicals, with focused interests in a few things (for me it's biology, art) but we're kind of loners. We can thrive without the rituals of social people. But yes, we have friends too! Everyone has their quirks.

[pamjf]

thank you!

i am in the process of getting my daughter assessed for AS.i was feeling bad that i didn't know something was wrong but as you say everyone is different.

[RobingdfelowsLady]

I apologize for the religious connotations this may have, but I can't think of another way to put this right now.

Amen! :)

[sybeve]

Oh, what I meant to add above was that I've only known I have AS for a little over a year now. It's been fascinating reading about it saying over & over oh THAT'S why I was like this/that all my life!!! It's been a very "freeing" & eye-opening experience!

[sybeve]

Recently I mentioned to someone (who's son is autistic & nephew has Aspergers) that I have Aspergers, and they said "I would have never thought that about you." This is a really nice person & I'm not complaining; just wanted to share my response: "That's because people with AS try so hard to act like they DON'T have it!" (I am in my late 40's & have only known that AS is what is "wrong" NO! what's DIFFERENT about me all my life! I had worked on eye contact, social stuff on my own for years!

[SteveeAlbino]

AGGREED TOTALLY I am under diagnosis at the momen an had many struggles and people totally piss me off when they cast extreme judgement

[sandbar3000]

Very excellent video-you know your stuff...

[KillTheSonsOfPlunder]

This shit happens to me as an Aspie as well..."but you don't SEEM or LOOK LIKE you're autistic!"

Fuck it. Fuck. it. in. the . ass.

[morethanadream]

Really good video - I've had this happen to me as well, and it's nice to be able to see that other people go through this, and have the same kinds of response to it as I do. And it's important to get people to learn that just because someone doesn't fit their preconceived notion of what a person with AS is like, doesn't mean they're lying or faking it.

And for the record I think you saying "you know" is really cute :)

[a6gregjockca]

@countzarroff you're just a fucking fruitcake bastard, actually. who says "i know" every second sentence. seriously, seek therapy, you blond bitch. LOOL!

[rcleverett]

@mildredsmittens You're showing your ignorance with this comment.

[moonsister83]

Cool!! I love your response!!

[jameelwrd]

Thanks for sharing your opinion. You are cool. :)

[countzarroff]

Somebody's gotta make a youtube poop remix of me just saying "you know".

[petchharrison]

@countzarroff dont worry about the people who say you have not got aspergers how the hell do they know some are ok in social places as we self tought.but i hate noise and have the shutdowns and sun light is a basterd............so they dont know and should P155 off.....................jeff..­..

[wob41]

22 times you said "You know " hehe

[countzarroff]

LOLS! I know I say that a lot, I should change my screename to "Youknow29".

[wob41]

hehe count how many time you say you know

no but great vid very true

[Janaricious]

when you say that you go nuts, i totally, totally, totally understand...

[coolika]

hi like your videos, but want to give you a heads up that on this video i just heard "you know".. mabey the english talking ppl dont notes it like i did but for me it was a bit anoying becouse i couldnt hear anything else the first time i looked at it.. /hug

[Rudytutti]

Hi Count - thank you for your kind words and support. You are a lovely young man and very lucky - many of us never got any support in school--IQ's off the charts but we drop out at 14, that kind of stuff. Those are the ones I'm concerned about--we existed before the diagnosis and fell out of society. If you have an IQ over 70 or are over 22 yrs old you don't get any help generally. My books are hopefully going to help fill a void in a small way. Cheers mate, Rudy