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The Gift of Asperger's Syndrome

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NadirMC Avatar
NadirMC
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Posted: 12.24.09, 12:34 PM
After a while, when we learn some mechanisms and we get information, we can date attractive women. So, let me say it is not a disability, just a difficulty. As I suppose you don't know, once we understand some mechanisms of social interactions, emotional expressions and interpretetion of non verbal comunication, we become not only avaible to interact somehow with others, but we become experts in those comunications, not as much when using it, but to intepret. This means, we can say how you feel inside you and what you could be probably thinking jsut by looking at you, because we are forced to memorize conciously those features that you use to comunicate. And remember it also depends on how the kid has been brought up, and how severe the Syndrome is present in his/her brain. Usually, if the kid is properly educated, he/she will have more gifts than damnations: I have 2 friends, the rest are just the rest. Normal people tend to have groups of friends, but poor deepness.
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ar18
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Posted: 10.22.08, 09:43 PM
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What Susan shows here is not a fair representation of Asperger's. It gives a false hope because Asperger's is both a blessing and a curse. Susan wouldn't know that and her interpretation of things is biased because she has a little of Asperger's herself (as I believe all parents of Asperger's children have a little of, since it appears to be genetic). Naturally Aspies can relate to each other better than "normal" people. Now if a "normal" person had written a book about a someone they knew with Asperger's, it would not be so flattering. There are two sides to every story and Susan only hunts and pecks for the good side. Having Asperger's does have its good points, but it has terrible side-effects that I have yet to see people address, things like how horrible it is to want to date and meet attractive girls but are unable to do so because this is where Asperger's literally becomes a disability. Nevertheless, Susan does tell an interesting story, even if it is not accurate.
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