I Had Asperger Syndrome. Briefly.

[KamaAina]

2. The Times had ANOTHER "Asperger's is fake" op-ed piece that same day!

Who's editing the Paper of Record(TM) these days, Michael Savage?!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/opinion/aspergers-history-of-over-diagnosis.html

Eventually, biological markers, now in the beginning stages of development, will help in separating autism-spectrum disorders from social disabilities. For example, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have recently developed three-dimensional brain scans that look at brain wiring. In preliminary studies people with autism-spectrum disorders appear to have too much wiring and disorganized wiring in areas involved with language acquisition.

Nevertheless, children and adults with significant interpersonal deficits are being lumped together with children and adults with language acquisition problems. Currently, with the loosening of the diagnosis of Asperger, children and adults who are shy and timid, who have quirky interests like train schedules and baseball statistics, and who have trouble relating to their peers — but who have no language-acquisition problems — are placed on the autism spectrum....

The downside to this diagnosis lies in evidence that children with social disabilities, diagnosed now with an autism-spectrum disorder like Asperger, have lower self-esteem and poorer social development when inappropriately placed in school environments with truly autistic children. In addition, many of us clinicians have seen young adults denied job opportunities, for example in the Peace Corps, when inappropriately given a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome instead of a social disability. George Orwell might never have been able to write his brilliant essay about the shooting of an elephant if Asperger syndrome had been part of his permanent medical record.

So we should hide our diagnoses because NTs might discriminate against us??!!

And, "too much" brain wiring? Sounds to me like the NT equivalent of a middle-aged guy with a flashy sports car, shirt open to his navel, and cheap toupee trying to compensate for his small winkie.