Alex Plank talks to parents of people with Asperger's

This is the first part of a talk I gave at the Asperger Lecture Series about college and Asperger's Syndrome.

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• autism
• asperger
• wrongplanet
• college
• university
• school

[chemer2012]

How did you get it over 19 mins I thought youtube only allowed 9 mins

[theWrongPlanet]

They used to allow director accounts to upload longer videos and didn't take away that ability from people (like me) who were directors before they changed the rules that prohibited everyone from uploading longer videos.

[citcat299]

Aspergers is a spectrum in itself, thus some people will be more mild than others, and Alex definitely has it. Any psychologist will tell you that; it's in his mannerisms, and speech, etc. Who says people with AS can never have a gf/bf? That's bullshit. It's much harder, but not impossible.

Furthermore, shyness is not part of the diagnostic criteria of AS. Some people with AS are actually the opposite; loud/self confident. This doesn't make them any less socially inept than the quiet ones.

[AussieAspie]

Spectrum is right; sweeping generalisations help no-one. I've never been loud (I'm 35 now). I have always craved peace and quiet, and just to be left alone. If I want human contact, I seek it out; if I don't, I don't.

As for shyness; I'm not shy, I'm socially phobic and anxious! There's a huge difference between being shy and not knowing how enter and maintain a conversation, particularly with those you don't know well. Shyness is more about what you want to say than of the conversation itself.

[SuperGoldfish1999]

@citcat299 I think that Maine and Ohio are good states for Aspies

[citcat299]

@ESAPOWER, I guess I'm just a self educated aspie and I also study psychology at uni (still undergrad though)

[ESAPOWER]

@AussieAspie How do you deal with that? I'm 20, and have similiar problems... And I feel so hopelessly lonely most of the time. How do you conquer those problems?

[ESAPOWER]

@citcat299 Are you a clinical psychologist or something? You seem to be very well-learned about the subject.

[JoshuaTheAirsofter23]

@PhilMyBod41 hey i got a game for u man up and take it like a man oh wait if you are then u know better to insullt a 13 year old kid and if your married u should be a gentleman insteed of insulting a kid now good day sir and this is my last post to you.

[PhilMyBod41]

@JoshuaTheAirsofter23 you british tard shut the fuck up or ill come over their shit head.

[JoshuaTheAirsofter23]

@PhilMyBod41 ha ha hey my body is to dense and thick to fit in your mouth and it is aganst the law to do that ha ha pwnd

[PhilMyBod41]

@JoshuaTheAirsofter23 yea you try that i would use u as a toothpick bitch!

[JoshuaTheAirsofter23]

@LycanthropicAsshole becuase people with assbuges are mostlikly smarter than you

[JoshuaTheAirsofter23]

@PhilMyBod41 you fucker thats because your imature and if aspegus is a curse how cum most thing you use where inveted by some one with autiosom bich i have asbuges and i will brake i see you in the street