Asperger's: The Engineer's Disease (PBS)

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08 Oct 2007, 8:13 pm

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that's weird. I like engineers too and if it makes them feel any better, someone later told me that they make the best husbands


Yes indeed, they are good with thier hands.



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09 Oct 2007, 10:36 pm

i'm self-diagnosed asperger, I have got my first job for a month now on a three-month contract. I am feeling so bad thinking about my future after reading some experiences by people on the website. Maybe it's because i'm honest and believe what is written there. By the way, I think asperger may also be called "the professor's disease"

(i intended to post it as a comment on the articel, but somehow i cannot)


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12 Oct 2007, 1:55 pm

I'm a third generation mechanical engineer, from a family of engineers. I think it's all down to the autism genes passing down the generations...


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12 Oct 2007, 2:19 pm

alex wrote:
The PBS show Wired Science has a special on Asperger's

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/st ... sease.html



Thoughts?


The word "mired" was an insighful describer, I thought.


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15 Oct 2007, 12:38 am

What hit me was "Reality" I keep hearing about it, face reality, and other variations. When I ask to have it explained, reality is reality.

I have a perceptual differance. As Carlos Catanada put it, A Seperate Reality.

As far as machines, I have X-ray vision and more, I can put them in my head and design them, or tell why they are not working right.

I dove into WP, for I was learning. There is an other reality about the place. Many are trying to fit in with the world, some are trying to fit in with themselves. The later group has a lot of common features.

Somedays it is hard to see, but I find many who share my reality.

Several of the comments reached me, that AS should have it's own education path.

I never thought anything was wrong with me, it was the other people. Their minds are closed to the wonders of life, and their goal has been to close mine. Failing that they could at least try to make me unhappy.

I have never understood, but comments from AS people I understand.

Not being alone gives me hope. We do seem to have a common center, culture, which for people who never met, says they are not scatterbrained misfits, needing treatment, but a subtype of human.

I am not alone, WP has doubled since I came. Many are finding the words they need to hear.



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17 Oct 2007, 7:02 pm

A step in the right direction, only it's not a disease.



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19 Oct 2007, 7:21 pm

I am not diseased.


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19 Oct 2007, 8:35 pm

Quote:
"Nobody wants to have Asperger's syndrome"



I really wanted to have this label!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Who wouldn't? lol We got our strengths we got our weaknesses.
I know many shy people without labels. communication / social weakness sure but there are far more strong points I believe! :P

and yea communication can be fixed. / so can social interaction. People(NT) go on public speaking courses so can we.

mmmm...

I found out I had Aspergers 6 months ago listening to a tape interview my parents and DR attwood.

ha I was shocked. Now I know why people call me weird lol. But mm Weird is the new cool :P

lol yea

mmm... I researched it AS) after listening to tape.
and started to want.
to have it. Yea and I do!! YAY for me :D
(just gotta tackle this anxious thing and hmm find the write job for me. lol quarter life crisis atm)



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20 Oct 2007, 2:15 am

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Now I know why people call me weird lol.


Similar experience here!



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22 Oct 2007, 5:56 pm

Thats cool 8) 8)

how did your experience go???????

lol interesting knowing others going through same thing eh :D



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25 Oct 2007, 5:42 am

8O
i want to improve in my studies.
i am student of biotech engg.
please help....


thanx



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25 Oct 2007, 4:34 pm

interesting, my dad has been a nuclear engineer for longer then I have been alive, and hes more aspie then I am in many ways. Makes sence!


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26 Oct 2007, 1:34 am

My son has diagnosed aspergers - he is an engineer, He has always had an engineers type mind. My brother was a math and science geek (undiagnosed - but definitley had aspergers)My husband works in It - I'm a nurse. Nursing and understanding body systems is my passion. The aspergers came through my family line - not my husbands.



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26 Oct 2007, 2:02 am

What was the show about? I studied mecanical engineering last year, but quit as apparently "high social skills" are required to become an engineer.



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26 Oct 2007, 2:30 am

MrMark wrote:
"The Engineer's Disease." I like that. I find that the more I try to explain AS to people, the more misconceptions they develop.


I don't. AS is NOT a disease.



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26 Oct 2007, 1:36 pm

Some of these stories just make me feel like I am screwed twice in life: I have AS and I am not an engineer/science type :(