Welcome, Aspies! Do you feel the LOVE? :)

Yeah it's annoying really, I only put it there because for me personally, there has been overwhelming support for parents/families of people with Asperger Syndrome, but the actual sufferers have to help themselves, unless they want to go through training lessons to learn how to tie your shoelaces or something! (Which I admit, I couldn't do 'til after turned a teenager :P) But yeah it is a bit quiet, probably because people with Asperger Syndrome (esp. younger people) don't want to admit it when they are already having trouble at school or whatever.

Access for Aspberger's/MPs

It took me some sixty years since I ran into the problems of Asperger's to make sense of my life, and I am still at it. I am using the "anonymous" posting method only because I have not had time yet to get set up with a LiveJournal username and password. In public, I am not at all anonymous about my situation. Stigma and prejudice are crushing to those of us deemed "disordered" or as "having deficits" by what seems to me as an oppressive majority of people. But I wonder how many of the "neurogically typical" people who seem so intent on crusing those deemed "neurologically atypical" actually have atypical conditions which they conceal from themselves and others. For most of my life, the people who think of themselves as "us" in an "us and them" world have treated me quite like a "them." But I not only find myself to be an "us", but, everytime someone has told me where I might find a "them" and I had the chance to meet the alledged "them," I have only found another "us."
So, who are "us" as I experience people? Everyone. Everyone is genetically unique, everyone has a unique sequence of experiences, and the grave error comes when we try to rank one person or a set of people in comparison with others. Grave error? The abuse from such comparing has cause people I have known to commit suicide. Why? Because that was the only path they could find to any mercy. What is the alternative to comparing? Knowing that everyone, regardless of circumstances, regardless of autistic or dissociative tendencies, is a perfectly valid person. I was picked on, bullied, punished (abused, really) by the prinicple by paddling in one school, was always the last one picked for a team in high school gym classes (motor skill issues, I generally earned points for "the other team,", and on and on. But I had parents who knew things many people seem to not have learned yet. My parents knew that the people who picked on me had worse problems than I did. So, who is normal? The ones who set out deliberately to hurt others who are "different," of someone like me who set out to learn how to assert my inalienable validity as a person while also learning very deliberately how not to hurt others back? Consider the so-called "normal curve." To me, the whole curve is normal, and it is just as normal for the person farthest out on the curve to be there as it is for most people to be clustered toward the middle.

Re: Access for Aspberger's/MPs

For the record, I posted the above before figuring out how to make LiveJournal work, so, because I am not anonymous, thought I would identify myself, now that I know how to do so. And, as happens from time to time, I sometimes mis-spell words I know perfectly well. What is Aspberger's? Never heard of it. Sorry, hardly anyone likes some of my humor... Yes, in my better moments, I can spell the good doctor, Hans' last name properly: Asperger.