Reply to "Aspie Superpowers and Teenagers".
I'm seeing the same phenomenon as the guy who wrote the blog post above: Aspie kids (and probably some adults) are pretty eager to declare themselves superior. Most of their lives, the world has been telling them they're inferior; and they're sick of it. So, when they discover it's OK to be an Aspie, they ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wish my Asperger's didn't cause all these hang-ups. Sometimes I meet autistic people who desperately want to be normal. I used to think that being normal, being "one of the girls", was important. Sometimes I still get annoyed that my life seems so uncertain, and that so much of this uncertainty is  tied in with autistic traits that make ( Read more... )

Genius doesn't make you better. It only means you have a skill that's above average ( Read more... )

With autism, there's one thing that's improved the lives of autistic people more than anything--more than education and therapy and any amount of diet-juggling, medicines, and questionable treatments:

Permission to be autistic.

Sounds weird, right? Because you're going to be autistic whether you like it or not; so what does it matter if you have ( Read more... )

If there's one thing I could tell the non-autistic world and have them take to heart, it would be this ( Read more... )