Do people think AS/Asperger's is trendy?

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Like a trendy, cool, fashionable, happening, 'in' thing.

Just wondering...

I don't think it's fashionable. Most people who have it get nothing but grief from others for their Asperger's traits and go through a life of never fitting in with everyone else. If it's so fashionable to NTs, why don't they copy their behavior from aspies? Many doctors still don't know about Asperger's syndrome so it hasn't become the diagnosis de jure that ADD-ADHD is.

Bah, No way.

If it was fashionable everyone would try and be like me. I think some people might think they have it when they actually don't, but I don't really think that counts as much.

If I am right in thinking I have it and if the reasons why I think I have it are the right ones, then no - it ins't 'fashionable', 'trendy', or whatever to have it.

I am often tempted to put myself down to a 'sociopathic' personality profile; the reason I don't is because there seems to be so much evidence against it.

No, not trendy, not cool, not sexy. It just is. And lets see just how 'sexy' or 'trendy'it is, when we compare notes on how we were treated growing up and as teenagers. Of course, when I was young it did not officially exist; I was just attributed with having 'autistic-like behaviour patterns'.

Asperger's is the new black.

Well, I'd never even heard of it before my son was diagnoised so it can't be too trendy.

BeeBee

Thanks to people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, geeks are a heck of a lot more trendy than they used to be, and Asperger's is still often thought of as the geek syndrome. When Wired is running a feature column on Aspie geeks, I think that's at least a sign of a growing trend, even if we're not there yet.

But it isn't a trendy 'lifestyle' statement; not something Madonna (or whoever), can support and make trendy and 'acceptable'. If she did, that would be cool, but in the end, it isn't necessarily about being hyper-intelligent (I am not hyper intelligent, but I am passably bright; or at least enough to get a degree if that means anything, even though I was a wash-out at school).

If something being 'trendy' makes acceptance and toleration more likely, then good - especially for young people finding their way in the world - that can only be a good thing; as I know what it feels like to not even know what is really going on. Trying to turn it into a 'lifestyle accessory' probably demeans and belittles it for people who really have to live with the consequences of feeling and being alienated, picked on and having all the problems that can go with it.