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JakeWilson
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Joined: Jul 12, 2007
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Location: Texas
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 Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: I Bought Aspergers T-Shirt To Wear On Texas A&M Campus |
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In this campus of 45,000 students in College Station, TX, I have been keeping my eye out for other Aspies but have not found any...even though I'm sure in a campus of this size there should be more than a handful. So by trying to find others, I always went about it the way of telling everyone I know that I have Asperger's to see if anyone will speak up and say that they are also an Aspie. The disadvantages of this plan were that with everyone knowing I had Asperger's, I sometimes felt the temptation to behave however I wanted to behave, knowing that I might be able to get away with it. I think most Aspies who tell their friends have the temptation to try to use the label to get away with inappropriate things they know they should not do when they are around people who don't understand AS very much.
So I decided the best way to do things is to wear a t-shirt. My t-shirt doesn't say what Asperger's is, it is just a white t-shirt that has the word Aspergers written across the front of it. I think what will happen is that people who do not know anything about Aspergers will not recognize the shirt (which means I'm not using the shirt as an excuse to behave poorly) and at the same time people who DO know something about Aspergers will recognize the shirt (people who may have AS or know someone with AS).
I plan to wear the shirt on either a Tuesday or Thursday one week and then either a Monday or a Wednesday the next week, alternating between M/W and T/TH. I don't plan to wear it for example EVERY Monday because the people I go to class with that day would get tired of seeing the shirt, and any possible Aspies in my Tuesday and Thursday classes would never see the shirt. So I will alternate each week.
If you are on the Texas A&M campus in College Station, look for me.
This university it seems is ULTRA-Neurotypical!
What do y'all think of this plan? |
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Triangular_Trees
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Joined: Jul 18, 2007
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I think most people, especially on a college campus, will have heard of aspergers. And if they aren't overly familiar with it, they may either be curious enough to ask, or may hold misconceptions about it (ie Mozart and the Whale does give off the impression that all people are a bit worse off than many aspies really area)
It might be interesting to get some hidden aspie t-shirts like the asexuals have.
*Also I think you should add a poll asking how many aspies would approach you as a result of this shirt. After all, don't we have a stereotype that we avoid approaching others? |
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