Moving away from stereotypes

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.

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  • Hope said:
    Since you refuse to answer my question I think we will just have to close the discussion.

    I am not refusing to answer.

    I just have no answer to give because I have no opinion on the matter.

    I can present the facts as I understand them to be, but you refuse to accept them because you simply can't see past your sterotypical view that all thought is opinion.

    If, in the future, some facts appear that show a previous hypothosis to be false, then I will happily ammend my understanding of the issue.

    However, in this case, and this is a subjective opinion, I don't think that very likely (though my mind is open to the possibility).

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  • Hope said:
    Since you refuse to answer my question I think we will just have to close the discussion.

    I am not refusing to answer.

    I just have no answer to give because I have no opinion on the matter.

    I can present the facts as I understand them to be, but you refuse to accept them because you simply can't see past your sterotypical view that all thought is opinion.

    If, in the future, some facts appear that show a previous hypothosis to be false, then I will happily ammend my understanding of the issue.

    However, in this case, and this is a subjective opinion, I don't think that very likely (though my mind is open to the possibility).

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