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17 Nov 2007, 2:38 am

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Im just saying I wish I have Aspergers. It would help to know that all the things that have happened to me are because I was born with this not because I am the weirdest person out there. And yes I dont ever want to be cured. I love being the way I am even the ocd. Sometimes the ocd is hard but I love being obsessive in tons of other things.

you either do or you dont have AS. Might as well wish you can breathe on the Moon.

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17 Nov 2007, 2:41 am

I'm confused....are they saying they haveit and don't want to be cured, or what?

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17 Nov 2007, 10:23 am

The 2004 version of the Stepford Wives has a character who is an architect. His name is...

Roger Bannister!

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17 Nov 2007, 2:55 pm

9CatMom wrote:

The 2004 version of the Stepford Wives has a character who is an architect. His name is...

Roger Bannister!

I don't get it.

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17 Nov 2007, 4:14 pm

Redstar wrote:

9CatMom wrote:

The 2004 version of the Stepford Wives has a character who is an architect. His name is...

Roger Bannister!

I don't get it.

our 9CatMom's perseverance is that four minute mile master, Roger Bannister. :wink:

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17 Nov 2007, 4:22 pm

I still don't get it. Is it a joke?

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17 Nov 2007, 4:49 pm

Redstar wrote:

I still don't get it. Is it a joke?

to perseverate:

describing the behavior, generally displayed by those with various developmental disabilities, of extraordinary, exclusive and lasting obsession to a detail or occurrence others consider minor.

Those with Asperger's syndrome also display a form of perseveration, in that they focus on one or a number of narrow interests, e.g. a person might go to a department store to incessantly look at air conditioners.

our 9CatMom's perseverance is that four minute mile master, Roger Bannister. She is sensitive to the name and when it came up in The Stepford Wives, it was like an 'in joke' especially to her, which must have thrilled her to tears!

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18 Nov 2007, 3:05 am

sinsboldly wrote:

Now I get it. Thanks. I'm into mythology, history, and writing and certain little bits of trivia within those interests similar to 9CatMom. But I didn't think to apply it to another person. I thought it was just a random post.

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18 Nov 2007, 10:49 am

I was responding to the post about the Stepford Wives, the movie about the ridiculously perfect people. I thought the movie was stupid. I think the real Roger Bannister would be embarrassed to see his name used that way and on such a dumb film.

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18 Nov 2007, 2:33 pm

I loathe political correctness.

Say I have Asperger's. Call me an aspie. Say my children are autistic or that they have autism. It all means the same thing, for goodness sake. The political correctness people get stuck on makes me want to gag myself with a spork.

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18 Nov 2007, 3:16 pm

humm. . .maybe I am not clear on the concept of being politically correct.

I thought being politically correct was not making other people feel uncomfortable.

Merle

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18 Nov 2007, 7:36 pm

I totally agree with you and am glad the news paper printed your letter as well. These people claiming that its 'with autism' because 'autistic' is stigmatizing are just going to turn autism into a stima and insult by doing this.
I watched a clip with two parents and this doctor and it was the same thing, don't call them autistic say they have autism (while claiming its not about political correctness, when it is. Its about political correctness and the fact that they can't deal with it.) Yet the parents sat there noding yes while the doctor called their sons broken. How autistic is hurtful and broken not I don't get.
This grandmother's letter gets me the same way. She complains about calling her grandson autistic but then writes about him having an insidious condition.

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19 Nov 2007, 1:00 am

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I think people get emotionally invested in what feels 'right' to them and can't back out just because they thought about it for a bit and grew out of that way of thinking. I think they feel they made their bed and now they are taking a moral snooze in it.

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19 Nov 2007, 3:40 am

OP: good job on your letter. Articulate and clear.

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19 Nov 2007, 4:22 pm

I posted the first chapter to a story about a young girl in a future society where autistics have been forced to go to their own schools, and function in a sub-culture all of their own. The main character, Alise Satoru, is an autistic savant with anger issues and interests in language, religion, and history.

I'd appreciate it if anyone here would go read it, and maybe post some thoughts: A Thing of Beauty: Chapter 1

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19 Nov 2007, 7:03 pm

I'd much rather be called "autistic Nic" than "Nic with autism".
"Nic With Autism" is like... "Nic With The Flu", or "Nic with Lice", or "Nic With Scoliosis".

Autistic is the kind of person I am, just like Puerto Rican Nic and Female Nic and... whatever else.
And I'm proud of it.

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