At 6/14/09 08:25 PM, EclecticEnnui wrote:
Why the hell are you associating autism with being dumb? I also have what the boy has; Asperger's, and I've been told by a couple of my mentors that people with that kind of autism are generally smarter than the average person. One thing's for sure, though: I am not fucking dumb.
Hell, so do I. I was diagnosed with Asperger's in 2002, after many years of my parents wondering "Why is our son so different from normal people?" But where did it say Asperger's? It said autism, which is generally the much more severe form of the disorder which usually involves a form of mental retardation (at least, most of the professionally identified autistics I've ever known were retarded rather than just less social and slightly OCD-ish). Then again, Asperger's is just one point on the spectrum, slightly but definitely off of normal. The point where humanity is lost is well beyond that, and the kid IS only 5. I take back what I said, OK? You happy now?