Asperger’s High
by Abram
I was recently shown the funniest parody of Aspie behavior I’ve ever seen. Granted, it also happens to be the only parody of Aspie behavior I’ve ever seen. I guess it’s one of those things people are sort of afraid to poke fun at, lest somebody take offense. But the “Asperger’s High” video – a trailer for a fictitious new teen drama from the CW – is seriously funny.
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September 28, 2010
Posted in: AS Community & Culture, Entertainment
Tags: TV
191 Comments
191 Responses
I thought it was pretty funny. We have to keep our sense of humor and be able to laugh. I don’t think it was done in poor taste.
I think it is funny in that it does give some realistic depiction of Aspergers (being Aspergers myself) and I could see a lot of myself in that! A couple of things I found exaggerated which was probably intended. Since so few still know much about A.S., I found it funny. It does flirt with negative stereotyping/harassment (which may have added to the humor) which it can approach if not careful.
This video was too funny. I L’d OL. Humor is a fantastic way to humanize and publicize the struggles of those with AS as well as their families and friends. Bravo!
There were essences of aspergers acted out, but I thought they went way over the top- Apsies wouldn’t just talk separately in a group unless they were majorly aspery. I think it should have depicted the more mild aspie’s who have some trouble picking up on cues, yet adapting somewhat.
I thought it was somewhat funny and it’s definitely a comedy not a drama.
But the problem I had with it is that it grouped all the Aspie people together and didn’t show them interacting with their neurotypical peers which would have made it a lot more realistic. Lets be real in the real world aspies have to deal with NTs a whole lot more.
And the comedy could go much further if there was comedy/drama between the two groups.
Lastly, I think this show could tackle such REAL LIFE issues such as bullying with great effect if they put their minds to it.
So I’m not sure,at first it was pretty funny but it kind of fizzled out for me. As the sister and mom of aspies though I did appreciate it. I feel like we are not alone in our quest for happines aspies neurotypicals.
Loved the part in which the girl gave feedback on the boy’s attempt at an angry face once he checked his cards! Too funny.
I agree with papsutter and Robin Clemens to include mild type of AS in adulthood when they know how to adjust and adapt already..to show somehow these AS still have no empathy…we need real life issues, how a relationship bw an undiagnosed/in-denial AS and an NT is confusing and difficult to sustain, how it is different from other NT/NT relationship since ppl couldn’t imagine it is 10 times harder than your regular relationship.. , how AS being a psychological disorder and not a visual physical impair that anyone can identify with is tough/mentally strained/agonizing on the NT when entering a relationship with an aspie(with no prior knowledge of even what AS is???) As i just decided to end a two year relationship with a man who I think (after plenty of research on my part) has AS but he would still deny it. I think the comedy could add a little bit of relationship drama bw NT/AS and even including the reasons why AS comes to be attracted to a certain type of NT.I felt like the mild aspies should walk around having “AS” tatooed to their foreheads because they (the mild AS adult) look so normal (even good looking, gentle and polite which often make them seem to be a good catch) on the outside but the longer you live with them the more you realize that they are not normal, that they don’t have no empathy…how empathy is thing we taken for granted in our NT world but it’s so essential to our life, especially when you’re growing older together in a marriage and being in the age of 60-70s years of age)
Read the love story from the dating to marriage of a Aspie wife on http://www.aspegerwife.com so u’ll get the idea. I don’t think there would be an AS high school; let alone they only interact to each other so please insert some NT characters in the show
First of all, I thought “high” in the title meant “intoxicated” or in an elated state. When I saw that it meant a high school for “Aspies” (does that mean “little snakes?”), I was amused. I thought the first part of the “trailer” was kind of dumb, but the part where the jilted guy didn’t know how to react, and had to consult flash cards, was pretty funny. I also liked the spoof of Claire Danes, playing Temple Grandin, although I thought it was a bit risky. She, and that movie, were so great!
My son is a freshman in HS & I can’t wait to show him this when he gets home. It’s exagerated a bit, but that is what makes it a riot. It may also be a great therapy tool to teach about the issues aspies face & ways to overcome.
I believe this TV show is in very poor taste and is not helpful in educating the piblic to the problems that many brave and wounderful people with Aspergers are facing on a daily basis. I watched the movie,Temple Grandin and thought this movie was very inspirational and helpful in understanding Aspergers. This Asperger High TV show will not be helpful.
I don’t think that this was funny at all my son has aspergers and for him it is something he has to live with for the rest of his life it is hard on him to do everday things..This will just make it harder on him knowing that this is on youtube for all to see. this will just give the kids more ways to pick on my son and things to look for. Don’t any of you think of the kids and what this will do to them? If anyone wants to know more about aspergers try picking up a book sometime or become friends with someone who has it and try to help them fit in instead of poking fun of them..This clip also shows that these people have know idea what someone with aspergers is really like. they only show what little they do know which is very little. And they also make the people in this little flick who are pretending to have aspergers make them seem like there dumb. But what there not showing is that in the real world they are smart.. There where and are many famous people who have aspergers and I think if these people did something that was more true to fact than making fun it could be more helpful..What they did was plain and simply and that is making fun of all the people and children with aspergers..This was down right cruel and anyone who think’s that this is funny has no morals and no value judgemet. meaning= when making such a judgemt is NOT called for. And in this case that would be making fun of anyone with aspergers..Tell me what kids do you plain on making fun on next??
Being an English teacher and mom of an Aspie, I’d just like to point out an observation: the comments posted by people who thought the video to be comical had better grammar and cleverer diction than the comments posted by people who did not exercise such fluency. Take it for what you will…
Personally, I think it better we learn to laugh.
I love watching parodies and being on the mild spectrum of Asperger’s, I wasn’t really offended. Yes, I’ll admit the characters were a little bit exaggerated. But for those of you who say it was offensive, it’s just poking fun at a certain topic just as other websites do. It’s not meant to offend you as a parent who has a child with AS, or the person who is on AS theirselves. In the end, it wasn’t bad or great, it was kind of funny.
I found humor in the parodies, but I was also moved to tears because of the pain involved for everyone who lives with Aspergers. My partner has this and it is so hard to see such an intelegent man deal with the issues I saw in the film. I know the issues we have in our relationship are greatly affected by Aspergers, and in fact, my partner said it is like we both speak different languages and both of us don’t have a clue on how to decifer what the other is communicating.
i cant stand how a parent thinks they know whats going on with their kid its imposible they just compair to much and just cuz its different doesnt mean its hard its hard cuz mom cant relate and she tries so hard and she will never fully know she tries to push the kid in how mom wants her when the kid yells it can only be a hard time figuring out why i think the child is trying to get used to change and they just find a different way which is why they yell i beleave it is more ergent for them to become comfortable so they yell or shutdown they just take a different aprouch
didnt see the movie sounds interesting
better luck next time on that flik i dont were buttons and glasses
alphabetical order dino
that would be fun if i could jump on a nutrino and go for a ride
faster than the speed of anything that we know
i think might go invisable light cant catch you
end up in another dimension a wall we have never seen or the other side
That bisics doesnt allow us to see and orderly direction maybe wont dark matter dreams have matter maybe they know
If we didnt Know nutrinos travel faster than light the foundation of science how many things are miscalculated for so long its like stone age think it probably effects other principles maybe even psychyatry thats what i was thinking wish they would hurry and find truth its kinda exciting
sometimes i ask myself if its possible to talk to the uknown or do you get sectioned thats the sad part the only way to know is if someone tells you so theifore ask questions but if everyone does that its like neglecting reality and i think people pul you out and force you to be grounded cuz they dont teach that unless you talk to god but why does it have to be him if i aint like the next pearson i get put a doctor saying oh u aint right people dont do that you have to be like everyone else let me try to talk to you but i dont understand so here are meds and just go over their
dont worry meds wont cripple you and turn you into a walking zombie yea right i stopped my meds and they got this girl to go to court if i stop so much for america home of the free people with green cards have more freedom than me in america
its just one med so im not that upset just to calm me down i get mad try to show how i feel cant get put in ward and given a mind stumper to slow me down yea
cant just because the people had more authority than me
whatever i got to try to focus on something possitive like the beach and forever waves with calm serenity and cool sand at night
I learn to lauph i tatood a half moon right infront of my ear with a small star it looks like im lauphing realy lot you should see the faces on some people its commical when they notice it like a dimple but pushed way back hahaha the other side i got a cross near my eye pointing down almost like a tear drop i should get rid of that one it gets me depressed sometimes.so then I just think of my dimple
hahaha
i eat liquid diet cuz i cant stand noise of food and my doc asked me if that relates with bipolar come on it has nothing to do with bipolar i hear her little pen clicking and she dont even notice it im like hhhhheeeeeelllllllllllo
dooooooooooooo youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu hearrrrrrrrrrrrrr mmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee its like trying to explain the color red to someone that has never seen it
why do docs have to know what you are sometimes its like stoooooooooopppp innnntteeerrrigggatttttttiiiiinnnnnnggggg mmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeee and be quite
and lllllllllllliiiiisssssssssssstttttteeeeeeeennnnnnn
i eat snacks though a meal here and their mostly liquid diet though it goes down quiker and its faster dont want to eat meals just liquid health drinks but normal people want me to eat nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
is sounds like arteries mussles bones breaking from teeth that the bones used to be their from the past thing chicken whatever tearing of mussles slurping why do people slurp is it to get my attention and not say anything just slurp why to put a noise in where it doesnt need to be
im thirty four im said to be good looking from other people i have a hard time staying with one girl that family started to notice all the girls i was going through its liked i started to feel guilty once they started to notice i realy liked some of these girls to the point were i start to cry because i dont know what went wrong sometimes i would get the sence were i didnt think they thought i liked them no matter how i tried i actualy realy loved some but i have a hard time doing or showing it sometime and once a few went by its like my fam thinks im dirty or permiscuous when i have no intention of going through them its like i start saying things that are hurtful and i dont know why i said them its like i loose them in midair and with reason i couldnt explain
its been a problem im 34 ive been with over thirty woman from all different states florida girls are from everywhere used to live their for sober reasons but had no intention of so many it was sometimes i get mad at myself and cant put my finger on what went on to fix it but i realy want someone to be with and just one my babies mom left me when she was three months old it was the hardest thing ive ever gone through someone called dss on us saying i hit her when i never did and since then my babies mother is scared of my mom we pretty much no it was her its like i get bullied by my own family because they see my weekness in groups so my mom takes advatage and boy do i get mad
i cant put pictures in my apartment cuz im afraid im being staired at
maybe i just feel im being ganged up on because im diferent thats what i thought until i get hatefull make fun of me words like my dad tells me i look like a water dog if i grow my hair or my mom would tell me i would never amount to anything or what did you fall out of your baby chair i worked for my fam for like a year i was dating thr waitress we broke up my brother tried to fist fight me because i dont know why i ask them for job back they say no i get a few dollars a week of inheritence from them and then they tell me if you dont get a job you dont get your inheritence anymore and if you go back to florida we are taking your inheritence away
I get ssdi for what i got and my fam wants to know everyone i talk like threatening almost its like i told them i didnt want their money and brother calls the police to come to my door asking if im allright if their is anything wrong
like i said i feel like a hostage but whatever everyone has issues i just try to picture them as a big clown joke in the back of my head
i need the money anyway heat prices are unreal
goodnight
oceans and wind
therapists are so on time he said he would be here at 1030 its past eleven he hasnt even called
I felt bad for saying stuff about chl maybe she just doesnt know what im like maybe i wasnt specific enouph for her i know aspies can adapt even though it might take a while and it might be painful but when i look someone in the eyes im not saying i enjoy any of it but its what society does as a whole i mean i aslo dont like going to crowded places but i have to to get the things i need if i didnt adapt to that i would be stuck at home and most likely get very depressed my case worker is realy cool though. but any way i felt i had to call and apologies to my doc so i did actualy felt i had to cuz im like grounded to this program mine as well be on good terms than bad ones maybe next but for some reasons i feel trust fell out with her like she was trying to say im not who im pretty sure i am and knowing me is the most important part of my recovery staying of drugs and staying alive and being happy for who i am love yal
shae told me no your looking me in the eyes you dont have it when i had all the other symptoms aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so what she telling go back dont look in eyes dont have that little feeling of ggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeetttttttt aaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy from me and look at the floor no sorry i was taught by anthony robbins most people get depressed from having their head down not speaking and frouwning sorry if parents made me look people in the eyes when i talk to them still i little upset
some people are realy cool like that girl that returned my phone call thank you.This girl rachel makes me smile she realy nice calling med check. You know i just want to be able have the hope of maybe going back to school and be able to explain that i have aspies and that im going to need a seperate room to work in.They let me in high school not till my senior year to do so and they also mentioned they think i have aspies im just confused why doesnt my new doctor want to trust me i am and was very insulted i hope things get better with this subject i cant wait to call you all on monday.its like aa drinkers know drinkers and a normal person doesnt realy know what that drinker is like. its so hard sometimes to explain to people aspie stuff cuz they dont live it and ive found myself so different than them sometimes i dont want to explaine with thousands of people that dont know it its like trying to get it out with the spirituality of people not knowing it its sometimes hard to get out this website is awsome lets me know people are out their i can relate with thank you from my heart
just got back to from the gym love working out ide probably be their all day if i felt more apart of see im hoping things like that can get better its like i walked on fire but its still difficult to aprouch someone and talk to them i realy want to I just cant get it out sometimes i want to be able to break that barrier stoppin me
like all the time theirs got to be a solution like what the mind can imagine the mind can create but were is that solution
listening to music and typing
maybe not scool right away one step at a time
have an awsome weekend
my fams ok i think they just opened the pub to try to help me adapt to being in crowds and for them obviosly and it did calm my yelling and screaming to the sounds of eating after a while i dont have the right to be mad at them the mean well but anyway hope everyone has an awsome new year
it wasnt my whole fam decision to open yhe pub my dad opened it then later given to my bro pops had triple by pass still smokes doesnt do much lays on couch needs to do health stuff cuz it effects alot when he doesnt i try to tell him anyway i just went bike riding its gorgous outside wish other people could see the beuaty in life its like we are light years away from other galexies and seing what was given to us or how we are here is just seems to me very rare and i just like to see it that way
im an aspi im shawnsean my brother married sherrie my siasyer married a police officer station my dad dated a nurse jaenie for twenty years why do they perpously try to confuse or force me i dont understand them isnt that wrong
and they got all the money houses loto why is that judgmentle
fraud
jerry omalley brother homicide is that tryin to make me a police dispatcher or something
or gerard i dont know he hides his name
THey know scientology they think three people to make a miracle they hit my pictures and shit
i got 1700 pictures of everywhere zoomed in on me two just to try and make it in this state out of space everthing
I even stole that stupid fucken drone cuz them wernt stoping it i even got the other spy plane
hahahaha
Even zoomed in on satilite
fuck the white house i we dont need it tons of players two
ignorant erogant o
dc soon propably an f if u fold a twenty exactly u will find eaghnstien riding a lightnig bolt i promiss with bin laden lips and obama lips i got the proof in my pocket
it will say no right next to the mouth with one eye hiden
ii found it when i was like ten never showed anyone untill the other day
it takes all scientology players i dont even think the pope knows how to find it their are like maybe 15 folds it ends up small if i could send u a picture i would but i dont have a fax machine
I dont even think gates knows
i think he built that house looking for it
It also got a ear piece on it perfectly
Scietology person told me we have past lives
it even has the exact same eye as eignstien even blown out hair
scientology taught me if three people beleave in the same thing u can create a miracle or disaster miles away
WE had a customer named carl hall he has a daughter named eva she is buetiful he drak so much and said he was using crack cuz i used to use it and we had to ask him to leave i tried to get him to rehab
leave the bar when they used to let me in when i was working they got tons of money i hope they didnt get mad at me he was a nice guy
at the bar
hi jamie
i got a vine on my arm
tatoo
The people upstairs play instuments forcing attention they such
and yell at you if they get bood and try to make you like it for first time gangster achievments fake aspies they are anoying its like they try to find out what pink is without anyone seeing the crayon ever
i got to stop making all these fake priests chant with instraments they the first that wouldnt let me play it they wallresses
500000000 words in a scientology book they teach u pretty much how to servive 8 dinamics family friends living things mass matter and spase religuon infinit being self which is first couple more i cant remember society groups
thats it
people up stairs on fucken drugs weed who knows what else looked like crack
mike maroney is a scientologist
lives in holden they own golf courses
he told me only when you have all the dynamics u get infinity a scientologist
he was irish larry and shannon
my dad grew up on vernon hill grafton hill is right next door i grew up in grafton mass my dad just moved their to grafton my aunt told me they used to fight grafton hillers as kids jerry gerard is from vernon hill also mom from crompton park elaine
My dad and jerry perpously try and do brake me up with my girlfriends even meet them before i see them i think
I think i threw my irish side out a window not sure yet they havnt offerd me shit they offer they just dont give
much
hi eva
They just try and keep me at bay obviosly u know
I loved alot of them also the girlfriends
Im mad i almost wanna blow up each of their houses
whatever i wouldnt i dont even know if any of them have my respect its embaressing
why couldnt they be fucken cool and let live they they think they heman take it and run
and do rub ins like they cool
they dont give anyone a chance wish they i hope they get a shit stick on their day
maybe the smelly pezident
wiffy
i live on et road elliot st
wooocstdud imean worcester the baaarrr is bennies wow what a toss
i think they all were a weave and talk to fat albert and were the same tie
whats a democrat if they got a tie dont they change
if they cant change themselves they fucken stupid the same tie come on people
three blind mice
they probably use todo for a shitzu
they should put cryptonite in
or another grey one
maybe they find nasa
JUST FOUND EMAIL HAVING TROUBLE SENDING IT
SENT THE PICS TO THE PHONE NUMBER
I GOT FROM EVA AND JAMIE
MY MOM THREATENED ME INTO THE SPYC WARD MORE THAN ONCE AND CALLED DSS BUT I DONT BELEAVE A THING SHE SAIS ANYWAY
I SLAPT A CAT CUZ IT SCRATCHED ME AND SHE PUT ME IN THE PSYC WARD
HAVE AN AWSOME NIGHT I HOPE THE PIC WENT THROUGH IT SAID SOMETHING ABOUT WRONG SERVER
I M SICK OF TRYING TO FIND IT WITH THE ANOYING KID UPSATAIRS WITH THAT ANOYING VOICE HE DONT SHUT UP EMMA THINK THE SAME SHE UP THEIR HE ANDREW
SHE SAY HE ANOYING AS FUCK TWO HE WROTE ANDY ON THE WALL WITH A WHITE POWER SIGN
HE SCRATCHED IT IN
SCIENTOLOGISTS SAY WHEN U WRITE THINGS DOWN IT LETS IT OUT SO IT DOESNT RENT SPACE IN HEAD
whaen i moved into this apertment the runner and the owner of the house said if i was going to have a roomate said to let them knoe and arangements would be met so when this other kid shawn asked if he could move in i called my case manager jim the one with short arms and he said i cant have anyone over ever whats wrong with that everything he said it was biger than him
and he jim doesnt give anyone the time to talk to the boss
this dood brad dowle is the biggest pain as staulker james caunteary also when i moved to mass he followed me and went to the va its almost to anoying and dowle i didnt tell him im an aspy but he knows it and staulks me like on everywhere
they down in florida now hopefully dont run into them if i ever go back
this dood andy and ema upstairs wont stop staualking to
its crazy mat and the rest of fam push dad my way and he willing and wont stop staulking its like his health his adiction doesnt help my cause whatsoever omaley does the same buy uses police to do so my cousin nathan to its so anoying
the all want some kind of miracle to land on their door step they got all the money keep it and they want me to help now with what its like obviously way overbourd my mother to she like puts herself in thes gros sexual spots in front of my girlfriends one millissa alphonso almost staulking me away from them
im in love with AVRIL LAVIENGE
AND AGULARA TO ALOT NOT SURE WHICH ONE I LIKE MORE
MY COUSIN NATHAN STOLE MY ORANGE HAT AFTER INVITING ME TO PLAY BASKETBALL THAT I HAVE PICTURES OF
$$$
the how house on pine st fl fucken wont stop staulking either my babies mom to she dont talk on phone but likes to hiack my pictures they all think its easy target shit coming to america get one
going goin going gone moving im sick of this place are u capable of seing the white light yet or do u just see it different im not telling
my buddy fredricks flying a kike
the frauds in the fam got my phone number i got to keep it off so my brains dont fly through the tv
or the radio
i called police tried to get restraining order on some of them they dont do anything i texted it it said didnt go through what kind of equipment do people have anyway does anyone know how to help im suppossed to be around peopleh the head girl said forose not to put me in one the head girl beth said for me to requesed for one and kristy said who the hell is beth and kristi decided to put me in a apartment alone that only adss to the problem and beth said she owns pact and started it yea ok all by herself wrong its imposiiple
put me in a group home ment to say
i mean kristy said she owns pact not beth whatever by
whatever im leaving this state hopefully things will work out far far away
empala zoom
alphozos a belly staulker to i mean her bfriends cant stand them and stacey hall balls
they should all go to a quite place shut the fuck up
got to ditch my phone and gat a new one once i get out of hear hopefully the world wont woar when im goin to get one im going to need a free one i think
the think upstairs wont stop banking now he reminds me of anthony robbins the self made idiot that thinks the world loves him i hate him he aint smart he was lied to and the trade centers fell over
im halloween baby he aint hes a sucker oct14
kaboom
i think he rents ants
real small squash
crackle
he dumber than the pezidunt real boring
should have just put a pancake in
how easy was it to take his drone
i got pictures of the other ones zoomed in espianage the one that controls electricity and spies they put this on computers do u beleave this
also have the worlds most expensive fighter jets zoomed in half the time i dont think people relize them flying by they stuck clicking playing im a bad ass hehe u should see my hair awsome i hope iraq got their 80 fighter jets i know the other countries do
im tring to compliment my dimple
i got so many pictures of cities exept new york and dc they got to many secrets what to do redifine the words vanish or grow up like me and face white lights once in a while and know it only hurts if u ask it to
i dont hang with over boarder dictaters if they have to force to get they never it
sometimes eew i might half to they arnt comfortable which means they arnt aint a fullfilled foundation
to know words their is honesty to neglect words and not know their is negativity follow honesty and you can be at truth and piece with yourself without timidation
pact was awsome today jim langenfeld christy awsome yeay
the landlord harrens also a movement creep slaulker two anoyng oh well when i wake up i dont want to here hi first thing in morn either he talks to people what i do oh well me two
i meant p sharren
have an awsome day everyone
i had a buss ticket to my supports down in florida and kristy forced me to give it to her and jim didnt show up today and langenfeld pretty much threatened me she knows other aspies mike screams through th radio and the black one the works their keeps saying he owns it and he dont i cant figure out the problem and paul strong arms until you do something for him im sick of this place jim got short arms everytime he skips meetings he says he has the best arms in the world what
havnt been to see my fam at the bar they like force me not to go
sanded a floor today
when i used to use in florida i gave this kid heroin he did twenty bags and i found him dead on the floor his name was darwin i got the drugs from this other bitch that got arrested cuz i told on him then told him to count change darwins fam owned a ciggerette company in texes
rip darwin
theirs this cop jerry it sounds like jihad i told him i was studying arabic and he said oh you probably have the feds after you when arabs are all over here hahaha well he dont survive with them haha what a weird person or just stupid
he bot a shamrock on his back he tries to prove other religion more powerful which starts wars on the shamrock he has his dead son and his two alive daughters thats stupid motivation
the kids probably gunna get the people that like him their dead relatives caught up in an out of bounds exicution ring
his best friend mark another drunk his friend a police officer flipped his car on the high way and died thats another reason why people dont discriminate
shouldnt discriminate
and not try to force take what isnt theirs
wasnt at their wedding nor would i hang out with him ever again or my staulker dad which arab payed for thousnds of arabs to come to the city their school is right next to the pub and they learn arabic and bot tons of money and the irish hide their money in their ass like a cat chasing their tale i dont know if they can even find it
Aspergers is not a condition to be celebrated and it is not part of a God-given unique personality. It is a hindrance to the “heart of life.” Children with Aspergers should be helped out of it since it is a result of non-compliance that has come down through a family line. A child who has Asperger’s should not be faulted for it; however, he or she needs to grow out of it so that he or she will not be in bondage to this condition. Management of the condition, for most, does little to improve on the quality of such a person’s life. There may be some exceptions, but most regress even with intervention.
In my opinion, Adult Asperger’s and narcissism go hand in hand. With Asperger’s, comes a “me-centered world” and humility is not usually a characteristic of such an individual. Asperger’s is a result of extreme rebellion/non-compliance that has come down through a family and has manifested itself as a disability. When someone “fights life” and the simple expectations of other human beings, it is extreme rebellion that has manifested itself as a disability. You can actually become disabled from a character flaw. Rebellion comes out of narcissism, and becomes so ingrained in the person that he or she actually becomes disabled in his or her interactions by choice (talking about an adult or teen who is aware of his or her behaviors).
People with Aspergers can choose to come out and participate in life like the majority of the population. Aspergers should not be celebrated because their is nothing celebratory about it. To characterize a person based on Aspergers is really a put down. IT is also a lie to say that a person with Aspergers doesn’t have as good of a personality as a person without Aspergers. That is wrong. Each person has a unique personality, and can develop his or her personality if he or she puts the work into it. I don’t believe that anyone is inately good; however, that does not mean that people shouldn’t try to improve on their faults.
Many people with Aspergers actually are high-attention seekers even though they are often mistaken as people who do not need people. They need people to be an Asperger. If someone has a disability that makes them unable to really empathize with others and have some real humility, than there is something else going on here.
It hurts to see myself so clearly but has got to be a good thing to put this out and it helps me see how I look to others… a great teaching tool. Thanks for doing this!!!
I loved the comment the girl made about the eye color as they were about to kiss- sounded like somethig I would say
Loved it. Showed an exaggerated view of some of the quandaries we find ourselves in. Also made fun of some interventions, and that tang true as well. While we may not be that extreme, I have seen things like that in real life. For example, my son will y’all on about what he is interested in regardless of my level of interest and regardless of what I am trying to talk about. However, out among others, he has learned to feign interest in the mundane topics they bring up and stay quiet about his exotic and extremely scientific interests. He has learned to “use a lot of words to say very little” to blend in. Fortunately, he is now in college with other brilliant minds and can now be himself openly.
Thank you for helping me laugh about this! Just found out my husband has AS. After a year of marriege and not understaning why he was so insensitive and almost divorced found ourselves at a counselors that specializes in AS and said my husband is the most obvious AS he has seen. Wish i would have known before we married..I could have found things like this to help me laugh instead of all the time I spent crying! Looks like a long interesting journey ahead for us!
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