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 Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:40 pm
I notice that, over the past few years, AS has become "the condition de jour". People who get involved in flame wars, act like pricks, and completely misinterpret posts use the excuse "Well, I have Asperger's, so there!".
I'm not saying that it's not possible that these people are not authentic people who have AS or have a very good reason to believe they do. It's just that there is so dang many of them, and I have not met anyone with AS in real-life who acts anything like these people do. I think that more than half of these people are completely fake and are just putting on a show. It's either that, or they've read a maybe a couple of lines online about it, think they "may" have it, and exaggerate and say they do have it and it gives them a helluva hard time.
Because of the people who act like this, many of us who are either diagnosed with AS or seriously feel we may have it (as in, a well-informed/-researched conclusion, not just a passing thought) are treated the same as these people. They assume that we are also arrogant pricks who can't read properly. This is because the only time they've heard the term used is when the "fakes" use it. I know that I could really benefit if people took me and my diagnosis serious, and didn't just reply to me with snarky remarks.
It reminds me of how things are in the self-injury community right now. Those of us with actual problems and addictions who need help for are tossed aside, laughed at, told that it's easy for us to stop, and told that our problems are nothing more than bullcrap like "my mom spent $300 instead of $310 for me on my birthday"; even though it's a known fact that people are hospitalized and have died from self-injury. This is because of some "emo" kids who do it for the attention, show it off, brag and whine about it, and complain about how no one understands the problems they have which are usually normal teenage feelings of angst and not-knowing-where-they-fit-in. The kids who act like this are the only reference people have to behaviors such as cutting, so people assume everyone who practices such behaviors is like this.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:49 pm
Yeah, they just need to face the fact that they'll never be as cool as us real Aspies. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 10:45 am
Never stumbled upon anyone who claims to be aspie without being so, but like everything that's popular on the Interwebs, I guess it's true. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:51 pm
It's pretty damned stupid too if you ask me. While I am not one of those so called "curbies" because I know based on logic that it's not something that is subject to curing, I'd still love to not have my mind and body work against me as it does.
But I'd be ever so happy to keep a small few parts of my AS and leave most of it the hell behind, but I can't.
It's almost as ignorant as to be thinking that it's cool to be bi-polar or blind or some such.
(One of my best friends is bi-polar and I think she would be dreadfully offended by talking to someone who is trying play act like they have it because it's cool to those who are very ignorant and stupid.)
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:10 pm
I was wondering when the guild would address this annoyance. I'd say it's a big problem, but this kind of thing has been going on since the ADD epidemic of the 90s and the outbreak of depression in the early 00s. I usually just avoid association by not telling people about it until I've known them for a while. After that, they can decide on their own whether or not I'm just an attention-seeking douchebag.
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:34 pm
I'm not diagnosed and I try to make it clear if it ever comes up that that's the case, for me. That I strongly suspect I could have AS but have no formal diagnosis.
I was talking to a friend about this awhile ago, and he was mentioning the same sort of idea as you have brought up, Sunflower Goddess, that Asperger's seems to have become the "popular" disorder to have lately and that it's "cool" to have it. My thoughts on it are this- most likely if someone really has AS they do *not* think it's cool. Really, it's the furthest thing from cool as you can get sweatdrop . Isn't that why it's nicknamed the "geek syndrome," after all? The people who think it's cool to have Asperger's or be autistic are usually the people who don't actually have it, and don't have to deal with the problems that can come along with it.
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:06 pm
people being fake goths and emos. fake gays and lesbians... now this? why is everything a trend now? next you'll have people faking down syndrome because they wouldnt know how to solve the nth root to something on an algebra test ! dramallama
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Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:16 pm
I say it's lack of education.
These people think that Asperger's is 'fringe' enough to be a 'pass key' to do whatever the heck they want. I wonder how they'd feel if they knew what it was like to walk around seeing a completely different world with completely different rules...and a completely different way of understanding than you. Being a person with Asperger's doesn't just mean you're 'different'. It means that your world is different.
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Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:25 am
i think alot more people these days are being diagnosed with any kind of mental disorders. it seems to be fashionable to simply have a problem
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:47 am
Oh, I've run into fakes. Lord, they make me angry. >>
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Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:32 pm
I try to avoid telling people that I have a mental disorder. Unless they are REALLY close to me, and know how strange I can type.
I never ran into someone being a fake... that is because I don't chat much, and I wouldn't know what a fake acts like.
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