Your Aspie Score

I know this is just supposed to be a fun quiz, but it really angers me the way we tend to label any deviation from a fairly arbitrarily designated "normal" as some kind of disease or disorder. Homosexuality used to be considered a disease, now it is considered normal. Depression used to be considered a mood that needed adjusting, now it is a disease. Can't we just accept that people are different and celebrate their uniqueness rather than trying to make everyone conform to what is "normal"?

cacha71 wrote: CPicard wrote: I'm going to take this test again, print the results and shove it in the face of my mother who spent her first evening at my flat claiming I have this Asperger syndrome. She wants me to be Aspie-rated, I will fight back and show I'm Inspie-rated. If you don't think you have it, then you probably don't.

What I think is not the main problem. It's what my mothers thinks that annoys me.

someone_else wrote: cacha71 wrote: CPicard wrote: I'm going to take this test again, print the results and shove it in the face of my mother who spent her first evening at my flat claiming I have this Asperger syndrome. She wants me to be Aspie-rated, I will fight back and show I'm Inspie-rated. If you don't think you have it, then you probably don't.   I'm not sure. Some Aspies are in denial. But the antithesis is often true: If you think you have it, then you probably do.

someone_else wrote: cacha71 wrote: CPicard wrote: I'm going to take this test again, print the results and shove it in the face of my mother who spent her first evening at my flat claiming I have this Asperger syndrome. She wants me to be Aspie-rated, I will fight back and show I'm Inspie-rated. If you don't think you have it, then you probably don't.   I'm not sure. Some Aspies are in denial. But the antithesis is often true: If you think you have it, then you probably do.

Yes, there are some Aspies in denial.  If you are having problems in your life and they are severe enough for you to suspect Asperger's and seek a diagnosis, then yes, it's likely that you have it.  However, there are also a fair number of  self-diagnosed who go around claiming to have AS when really they are just shy or a bit socially awkward.


Edited by cacha71 - December 13 2012 at 09:42