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[Vector]

Yeah, sorry for being so loud.

There's also Iceball and GoldDragon and Armok and (blah blah blah).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Well, so much for my perceptions.

[Max White]

I'm meant to have aspergers, diagnosed when I was seven by Tony Attwood, and he is meant to know what he is doing.
I personally think he made a mistake. He is has studies that focus on the connection between aspergers and physical clumsiness, and I don't have depth perception, so of coarse I'm sometimes going to run into things I wasn't expecting. Also, being that bad at sports is bound to get a kid bullied, and that affects emotional development.
Now that I'm grown up and living in a world that doesn't instantly chastise me for not being able to catch, I'm enjoying being a lot more social and can make friends pretty easily. Heck I'm normally the one to open conversation.

Point is I'm 90% sure that diagnosis was bullshit. 'Likes playing with lego' and 'Other kids don't like him' is not any sort of basis for any sort of diagnosis until you want to medicalize being a geek.

[RedKing]

Yeah, sorry for being so loud.

There's also Iceball and GoldDragon and Armok and (blah blah blah).

Armok is As....wait, why am I even asking that question? 

[Descan]

You are assigned a lexile range taht is supposed to indicate your comprehension level.  Something like The Merchant of Venice would rank high, and something like The Cat in the Hat would rank low.  When I was in third grade, I got into an informal competition with this other person, and we both ended up reading all the books in our library that was in our range.  Then, for the next two years, we both struggled to find books to read, since we couldn't check out books not in our range (Essentially, anything in the elementary school library not in the middle school level or higher.)

That... is the stupidest system I have ever heard of. What's the point?! What good reason do they have to curtail what you read like that?

[PanH]

Point is I'm 90% sure that diagnosis was bullshit. 'Likes playing with lego' and 'Other kids don't like him' is not any sort of basis for any sort of diagnosis until you want to medicalize being a geek.

Lots of people seems to forget that Asperger's syndrome is, surprisingly, a syndrome and not a disease.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Now for my rant about English-

English classes are actually bullshitting classes.

[Scelly9]

You are assigned a lexile range taht is supposed to indicate your comprehension level.  Something like The Merchant of Venice would rank high, and something like The Cat in the Hat would rank low.  When I was in third grade, I got into an informal competition with this other person, and we both ended up reading all the books in our library that was in our range.  Then, for the next two years, we both struggled to find books to read, since we couldn't check out books not in our range (Essentially, anything in the elementary school library not in the middle school level or higher.)

That... is the stupidest system I have ever heard of. What's the point?! What good reason do they have to curtail what you read like that?

Teaching to the lowest level student. You would never want anyone to get too far ahead, the others might feel left behind. Idiocy.

[Max White]

Lots of people seems to forget that Asperger's syndrome is, surprisingly, a syndrome and not a disease.

A syndrome with more aspects than just being good with certain puzzles and a little anti-social.

[Korbac]

I'm connected to the baseline in that I'm a nerdy liberal! RAGE!!! XD

[RedKing]

Since we've determined I'm the baseline, this thread is rapidly degenerating into "Six Degrees of RedKing". 
Which is still probably preferable to "Fifty Shades of Red". 
(I mean, y'all are some smexy folks, and I'm openminded and all, but no. Just no.)

[Darvi]

I have a RedKing number of 7 :V

[Max White]

50 shades of red is the new title of the new book I thought of.
It is actually a bloody war drama where after you get emotionally attached to the female protagonist at the end of the book she is beaten, raped and stoned to death. I'm trying to convey the horrors of war for women in a world where they are often over looked in favor of the trials that the young male soldier has to go through.


The fact that as a male who has never been to war thus has no clue what I'm talking about is irrelevant, just ask Mark Haddon.

[Slayerhero90]

What exactly is Aspergers?

[Lagslayer]

Lots of people seems to forget that Asperger's syndrome is, surprisingly, a syndrome and not a disease.

A syndrome with more aspects than just being good with certain puzzles and a little anti-social.

Lots of people seem to forget that a syndrome is, surprisingly, a syndrome, and not a disease.