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ShadesOfMe
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 Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: is Aspegers a disease? Your opinion. |
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| I've noticed a lot of people here believe that Aspergers and Autism are the same, or that Aspergers is a form of Autism. But a lot of those same poeple also believe Autism is a disease. So, i'm looking for more info about this. |
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Liresse
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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"disease" is a term of the medical perspective. someone is "sick" with a "disease," which is proposed to be "cured" with some sort of "curing agent."
broken leg.
influenza.
AIDS.
(in the medical paradigm, regardless of whether a cure exists or not, it is still a sensible concept to search for a cure.)
Historically, psychological conditions, including schizophrenia, depression and perhaps autism, have fitted poorly with the medical perspective.
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protest_the_hero
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| Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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2ukenkerl
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:07 am Post subject: |
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| protest_the_hero wrote: | | Ever scrolled all the way down on wp? |
In any event, I see AS as a whole kind of like my perception of temperature. SOME might think I am handicapped because I can't stand hot air and a LOT of sunlight. Well, I CAN stand the cold better than they can! Maybe I can't catch, but I can understand a lot of technical things better. So who knows? I don't consider it a disease though because, on the whole, it isn't debilitating for me. |
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ShadesOfMe
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| protest_the_hero wrote: | | Ever scrolled all the way down on wp? |
Yes. But that is Alex's opinion. I want the opinion of the masses. it happens to be my opinion too, but I want to know how the rest of you feel. |
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FieryGatoh
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Hell no  |
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Ixtli
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Flismflop
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:21 am Post subject: |
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It's neither a disease nor a disorder. The only "D" that appropriately categorizes it is "difference".
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Dark_Red_Beloved
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Asperger's and autism are both on the spectrum...
but an autistic person and someone with Aspergers can experience severe pain due to their condition--be it due to sensory difficulties,physical ailments, or social rejection. I think the question here is not is autism a disease, but what is other people's impression of spectrumites and how do they respond ?
Many people use the word disease because they don't know a more fitting way to describe the person in front of them or their behavior. Often accompanied by fear and indifference , "disease" is an easy way to simplify something that looks complicated and scary.
As Orson Scott Card put it, "The difference between ramen and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be ramen, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have." |
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dougn
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:55 am Post subject: |
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I believe Asperger's is a type of autism.
I do not believe any type of autism is a disease. |
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ghostpawn
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Is dyslexia a disease?
It's not contagious, you can't die from it, it doesn't even get worse over time.
It might be a disability, but I wouldn't call it a disease.
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I don't see it that way. I call it a disorder, because a lot of us have other problems too.. such as OCD.
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I agree with all of the above.  |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Neither autism (classic autism), aspergers (apsperger's autism) or any other related form of autism are diseases. They are only differences which in some cases can make life very hard, while in other cases they allow people to follow professions which the average NT has no hope being able to cope with.
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DentArthurDent
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I firmly believe that Aspergers is a Disorder.
The Oxford definition of a medical disorder
: a disruption of normal physical or mental functions.
My inability to read facial expressions IMO fits this definition, not to mention the ridiculous nature of meltdowns and other traits that define our condition
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