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17 Apr 2011, 6:22 pm

I suffer from the attitudes of mainstream society, not AS.


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20 Apr 2011, 8:37 am

pat2rome wrote:
suf·fer/ˈsəfər/Verb
1. Experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant).
2. Be affected by or subject to (an illness or ailment).

Fits definition number 2 no matter what, and definition number 1 on a subjective basis. This topic is much ado about nothing.


AS is not an illness or ailment, and I do not experience it as unpleasant.



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20 Apr 2011, 8:40 am

manlyadam wrote:
I've been reading a few articles about aspies lately and all of them say this exact phrase. I don't know how other aspies feel about this but I think it's such an ignorant thing to say and it makes me afraid to tell people about myself because they will think I have a horrible syndrome and I'm suffering. I don't know where this originated from or why it became the standard thing to say about all aspies but I want it to be changed. Maybe there are other aspies who feel the same, is there anything we can do to change it? I mean it's almost like saying black people suffer from African Pigmentation Syndrome isn't it? I don't see much of a difference so a complaint should be acknowledged?


Exactly. It's not cancer, I don't suffer from s**t except for how people treat me. Society is ill, not me.



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20 Apr 2011, 9:24 am

Mindslave wrote:
Because Asperger's is a disease. It's a disease because it...affects your physical health...just like all other diseases.


I disagree. It is a variant condition. Another way of being. Short is not a disease. Tall is not a disease.

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