Is Aspergers an Illness or Just a Different Kind of Personality?

[51elephantchang]

A positive way to look at this is that neurotypicals are the ones that are 'different'.

[Tawsuoko]

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[FlynnMTaggart]

I think I am joining the Marines because of Aspergers. It may be because in the military it is essentially Black and White. You do this this way and the outcome is death (example). And many things are like that in the Military. Like don't jam your gun in a firefight, don't jump up and down in a firefight, don't go over to that suspicious car. So on and so forth. But I am also joining because in my mind, show your country that you love it.

[TheSchemer1]

Now that is a more accurate explanation of aspergers (remember it's NOT A DISABILITY).

[blueecto]

I don't believe in Aspergers or many other 'recognized' mental illnesses such as ADD and ODD.

'Aspies' are usually always (MBTI) INTJ/INTP type, suggesting the 'condition' is more inline with a personality type. There is much debate as to whether or not ADD sufferers are simply intuitive/nonlinear thinkers. And ODD is just a joke of a diagnosis - period. There is much crossover between the diagnosis of all of these disorders. Often someone will be diagnosed with two or all three together.

[Supersmooth007]

Thank you very much for this video - it is very informative and I have shared it with some others on facebook to better understand me as I am an Aspie' myself and the most difficult situations I find with Asperger's is developing and maintaing social relationships with others,

[Supersmooth007]

@Supersmooth007 I find certain different social situtations confusing, plus I find it hard to read the social cues and non-verbal cues such as flirting I basically can't tell when a woman is flirting with me or not, where as if she were to say "I really like you" do you really like me etc" I would understand it as it is a black/white question.

[ASDspecialist]

One thing that I have found with my Asperger's clients and family members, is that some people with these differences do not like to think of their differences as a "Disorder" or "Syndrome" but as just another part of the natural human variation in how people think and see the world.

[MariahCareySongs]

Is a syndrome and a disability not a personality disorder. These people are handicap just accept it and stop trying to feel more special by making up things.

[LiamXDXD]

dude i has aspergers i think its an illness :( cause im differant and im well..worthless

[foximaxi35]

@LiamXDXD Ur not worthless. Everyone is different. There are lots of people not diagnosed as Autistic Spectrum who have a lot in common with you. Its just that u have certain traits to a greater degree than the average person

[foximaxi35]

LOL u have no understanding. It is fundamentally a PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENCE, the brain works differently. There is a lot about the "Deficits" but there are gifts. It is not a personality disorder, its a different way of processing information.

[Ilovecats112233]

It's not an illness, but Mum says it's a disability. Some people on the Internet say that it's just a personality that doctors have labelled as a disorder. It makes me feel like a fraud when they say that because I get so much extra support at college which most students don't.

[thehumancookie]

Im an aspy and I think aspergers is a gift from God, I would rather be an aspy than a neurotypical. aspergers is the reason I got a college grade reading level in third grade, aspergers gave me such a great interest in science, especially molecular biology and ecology, so great in fact that when I was only 7 I knew what amino acid was! all aspys are geniuses in certain subjects. apparently mine is science, God must want me to help humanitys scientific progress. and so I will.

[krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkx]

@thehumancookie If you're going to brag about being a genius and pride yourself and another group of people that share your condition as geniuses, it might help if you check the grammar before posting.

[MsMotleyone]

@krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkx It might help you to take a step back and look at a good intention of a post before ridiculing people. I will stop here for the moment and let you take a good look at yourself. What I am reading here is ugly and I hope you truely would not be going after an Aspie for advising of a gift and the use of it.

[krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkx]

I wouldn't advise a condition such as asperger's to anyone, no matter how much it would make me sure of my own genius. I will stop here and allow you to take a good look at yourself. What I am reading here is ugly and I would hope you are not criticizing me for taking a stance against someone advising such a condition that hinders people's social intelligence even if it may allow for the possibility in possessing a greater intelligence of a different kind.

[thehumancookie]

@krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkx Im not saying im a genious,research shows that autistic people such as myself are often extremely talented in some areas, I even said that in my last comment, for us aspies or autistic people we can often suck in alot of other things as well. why would people give a fuck about grammar on the INTERNET, it isnt real life on the internet we just type what we wanna say and post it.

[krkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkrkx]

@thehumancookie Well, you generalized by saying ALL aspies are geniuses in certain areas. I'm not disputing the evidence or caring that much about the grammar; Rather, I just wanted to get your attention so I could point out you may wanna think about what you wanna say before posting, because yours seemed to have a sense of entitlement in it and seemed to raise a group of people over another in spite of their shortcomings. :)

[dapoculos13]

@thehumancookie EXACTLY!!! i have autism/aspergers and i have all the symptoms plus im also very talented in art,singing,and techology (pc and electricity)

[ASL8306]

My sister who is 17, soon 18 has Asperger's..I still need to learn more.. I fear I haven't learned enough and how I can support her..= /

[sincereestrada24]

everybody has a different personality" no one is the same

[autisticaplanet]

Thank you for bringing up the loud noises issue. I find in Asperger's definitions that the sensory issue gets dropped where as with Kanner autism it is left in. I have AS and severe auditory sensitivities.

[PeterWalserAnimation]

I'm a seventeen-year-old who has Asperger's Syndrome, and I enjoy being as strongly intelligent as I am.

[popmusicno1fan]

By the way, if you look around on the internet, you can find that Asperger's is described as a disease because of how it affects social functioning and communication etc. I don't understand why it does that just because people with AS have trouble with it :S

[AspergersGuide]

Actually, Asperger's syndrome is not a disease because you can catch a disease and you can cure a disease. Asperger's is the way your brain is wired and it is generally believed that you are born this way...therefore, you cannot "catch" Aspergers nor can you "cure" it in the sense that you can cure a disease.

[popmusicno1fan]

I didn't say AS was a disease, I said that around the net people have been describing it as one even though it's false :)

[moyga]

Thank you! So sick of that stupid misconception.

[lankster13]

I have aspergers and this video does hekp people understand the condition

[popmusicno1fan]

The "Aspies often have trouble" slide's points are just like hypersensitivity, isn't it? I have that too :)

[ghodium]

good video. i like the fact that, in the UK at least, work psychologists dealing with aspergers adults are using the social (not medical) model, where the employer is encouraged to help work around those problems (such as by providing a private workspace for the asperger: changing the asperger's environment, not the asperger). i feel that, particularly in intellectual jobs, this frees the asperger to do what he does best, away from those superfluous sources of demand and anxiety on the asperger