-or is it by itself?
It doesnt matter i cant stay on here and be bullied by someone who thinks he's so better than anyone else. Must be taking the personality of what his Avatar looks like-Pete Doherty looks like to me.
I tend to use that phrase with people who already know my diagnosis but I just don't want to get into discussing it - for example, the kind of statements where "why would that be a problem?" or "how can it be an issue just to pop in to a shop on your way home?", and generally they say "oh, right, got it... don't worry" or provide some practical suggestion.
I don't think I have used that phrase with a complete stranger before - much as I would like to. But if was really on the spot, and not wanting to blurt out a diagnosis in order to excuse myself from the situation... maybe I might try it...?
I use ASD myself; I was also diagnosed after the merger.
hello 
i always thought they were like sisters. I read something that explained aspergers like having the main triggers but being less noticable,which I suffer a lot with noise etc but I can’t say anything cause I’m high functioning and work with senior people. So I basically gritt my teeth all day whilst wanting to run through a wall. That’s how it is for me anyway.
do you know what berated means?
because a joke is not berating.... if i were to berate him on this question id have shot down his question in a mean way and called it a silly question and him silly for asking... that is what berating is.... perhaps learn the word first before using it?
and honestly i thought i would be one of the most uneducated and slower autists here... i thought i was the low bar on intelligence in our community...
how did i berate anyone? can you read my remark back please and think on it more?
i mean, i totally understand here that you could just be misunderstanding my comment or misunderstanding a joke. i accept that is part of autism and thus i accept your misunderstanding here.
but to most people here im pretty sure theyd not see any berating in my comment or anything bad. infact a few people with aspergers actually make the same joke many times, infact i probably got that joke from them to begin with...
Well, this thread has gone a bit wrong...
Aspergers is generally not diagnosed as a thing in itself anymore.
Even when it was, it was a kind of 'special subset' of Autism.
Autism is becoming the umbrella diagnosis (or often Autism Spectrum Disorder or Autism Spectrum Condition)
In general, for people who do not conform to the 'predominant neurotype' (PNT) can be described as Neurodiverse - and those diversities can be as wide ranging as any physical diversities you care to imagine (height/weight/skin tone/ etc etc)
There is an ongoing debate as to labels and exactly how much help or damage they bring.
For some, there is comfort in being identified into a small grouping of people whose diversities a more closely aligned with their own. For others, it feels like just another stereotype that one doesn't quite fit in to.
Personally I like the term Autism. Or, for people not engaged in the type of thinking outlined above, I sometimes say "my brain doesn't quite work in the same way that yours does - that's all" and leave the nuance and questions to them.
lol i guess some people dont like my jokes.
and im not sure im that fat tbh used to be around 6 stone until my 20s, then i sorted out my fussy eating and took up martial arts classes too which increased muscle mass to make me around 9.5 stone. it had a really fitness focused first half of lessons that honestly killed and scared most people off the classes lol
This made me titter.
I think Aspergers is part of Autism which is part of neurodiversity. I hope in the future children will be routinely supported for neurodivergence and neurodiversity will just be like having brown eyes or ginger hair. No big deal just another part of life. And people will say so and so needs the lights dimmer because they feel bright lights are painful and they'll all be cool about it. The term Aspergers is problematic because Hans Asperger was a nazi but I think if people are diagnosed Aspergers they can identify as having Aspergers or being an Aspie. Personally I am not offended by that. I was diagnosed as having ASD because Aspergers had been taken out of the DSMV by the time I was diagnosed. I identify as being autistic.
Thanx K is probably me,probably a mistake trying to ask anything/be on here. Feels a bit too much like the annoying things of secondary school in a matter of days,not from kids teachers.
