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

http://AspergersSurvivalGuide.com This video on Asperger's Syndrome (high functioning autism) explains characteristics of Aspergers and provides hope for those with this developmental issue.

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[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.

[TheSchemer1]

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

[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.

[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)

[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]

@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.

[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,

[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.