Published on 12, July, 2020
I can't stand stereotypes and do not wish to be defined by my condition. I would rather people saw me as an individual with strengths and weaknesses, some of which can be explained by me having Asperger's syndrome, rather than defining me by a label. This is why I can't stand the word 'aspie'. While having Aspergers is an important part of my identity, it is no more important than me being female, no more important than my sexuality or my age. I would hate it if someone did not see past me being a woman or past my age, why is having aspergers any different? The disability movement campaigned for disability to be seen not as an individual affliction or difference, to move beyond individualising disability and to see it as a societal problem: people with disabilities should campaign collectively to change society, making it imperative to see the person before the disability. I am a person with asperger's syndrome, not an aspie. I share traits that other people with AS may have, but I don't share all the traits, just enough to have aspergers. We are all different, to say I am an aspie suggests conformity with other 'aspies' and obliterates the part of me that defies easy categorization.
'Clearly demonstrate hard wired psychological differences'. Do they really? According to whom? Some biased researcher asks biased questions about what it means to be man or women, and then confuses effect with cause. It appears that women are sometimes more emotional than men. Therefore it is assumed that there is some natural chemical that makes them like this, instead of the more plausible explanation that society has systematically indoctrinated men to ignore their feelings and to not show emotion because emotion is for babies and women!!!
''Don't confuse what you like with what is true'' - I can say the same about your argument and the arguments of those godly researchers who must be true - never trample 'Science' and its self-validating hypotheses! Also, what is 'true' may be wrong!. Society changes and to believe something just because you read about it or it is the dominant 'truth', without having any preferences or opinions of your own, hardly bodes well for progression in society. Otherwise we would still be in the caves, when what was 'true' was very different to what is now 'true'.
The only likeness we share is that we are all human.
What do you mean by 'worthless'?.
We are all human, we are different in degree to apes, though we are related to them.
Your other argument about differences between men and women not necessarily being a bad thing reminds me of the 'different but equal' line that American segregationists put forward, upholding 'different' but apparently 'equal' treatment for African-Americans. Sure, this is an extreme example and does not parallel the discrimination against women in today's society, but the logic is the same.