aw, aren't we all special snowflakes, though?

[fitz_clementine]

When Asperger's Becomes Cool.

(Okay, this is gonna be disjointed and rambly. Sorry. I have places to go.)

Yeah, so I was diagnosed as a little girl. There were some books, but not novels, and not popular movies, apart from Rain Man . It's been strange to grow up as my particular neurological disability becomes a pop-culture phenomenon, I can tell you

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[slingstone]

Who are these "People" who take you to see movies so you can relate to the aspergers-characters? That seems awfully presumptuous.

[fitz_clementine]

Well-meaning relatives, mostly. It's...I don't know, I think it's a typical sort of thing when people are trying to connect with/understand someone who belongs to a minority group that they don't. The gesture comes from a good, if clueless, place.