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YO!

48 (19%)

I suspect I am, but am not diagnosed as such.

32 (12.6%)

NO!

164 (64.8%)

I've been diagnosed as such, but suspect I am not.

9 (3.6%)

Total Members Voted: 252

[Criptfeind]

I dunno. Maybe I have it. I have been going though the merry-go-round of 'what the fuck is wrong with you' for the past ten years. I am sure I have been diagnosed with it at some point, but I dunno if that is the working theory still, I stopped keeping track two years ago.

[Grek]

As I understand it it basically means you're not a people person (no, I didn't read the whole thread to get a proper explanation), so I guess I qualify since for the most part I hate interacting with people.

This is not correct. Aspergers is a specific disease wherein you are unable to interperate facial features and other non-verbal expressions of emotions eg. unable to tell that someone is angry because they are glaring at you. It means that the part of your brain that usually handles those sorts of inferences is failing to function due to some quirk of your brain's structure or chemistry. Just being antisocial isn't aspergers. It's just being antisocial. If you are able to understand what people's expressions indicate about their emotional state, you do not have aspergers.

Thinking that you might have aspergers based off of a forum post, rather than based on talking to a doctor about your communication issues is a hypothesis location error and it will lead you astray almost 100% of the time.

So, no. You do not have aspergers. Or, at least, there is a >0.001 chance of it, given the rate of incidence in the population at large.

[Criptfeind]

Hey Grek? Where did you get that definition? Because, I am not saying you are wrong, but I have personally never heard that take on it, and Wikipedia disagrees with you.

[sonerohi]

I've been diagnosed with Aspergers. The 'talk' that I received told me that I am on a specific area of the Autistic scale. Most Asperger people, from what I was told, have savant-y mental skills going on, but at the cost of social skills and such. Like, crazy levels of focus and mental drive, and high levels of knowledge in specific fields, but not automatic geniuses, at the price of lack of empathy, inability to read body language, inability to infer when dealing with people, that type of thing. I also had it explained that people with Aspergers might develop special sensitivities. I've a friend who has it that cannot deal with normal levels of light. I personally am physically sick when I feel certain textures.

[Criptfeind]

We, I guess I am not one then, as any one here who knows me can say I am bursting with empathy and social graces.

[freeformschooler]

We, I guess I am not one then, as any one here who knows me can say I am bursting with empathy and social graces.

Yeah, just last year you won the 2011 Emmpathy.

[Bouchart]

Aspergers is just the latest medical gravy train. Notice how you don't hear nearly as much about ADD/ADHD as you did a couple of years ago.

[Max White]

Aspergers is just the latest medical gravy train. Notice how you don't hear nearly as much about ADD/ADHD as you did a couple of years ago.

Makes me wonder what will be next. I hope we go back to narcissism, now there is a issues I can relate to.

[Vector]

Self-diagnosed over an excruciating year--excruciating mostly because I would say "well, it lines up but my commitment to truth doesn't allow me to diagnose myself with this because I obviously can't speak to my own experiences objectively," even though most of my (autistic) social circle was saying "bro, it's so obvious, jegus, just deal with it already."

Then I went in for unrelated problems and was diagnosed with it very quickly twice.

Meh.

Maybe I'll talk about it more later.  For now, video games

It gives quite a vivid portrayal of what it is like to have symptoms of the disorder.

No, it doesn't.

I don't have the energy or inclination right now to get in a big clusterfucking link dump, because I basically assembled a 10-page packet on this for my rhetoric course.  But look up autistic people's reviews of the book, and then do a close reading on the reviews on Amazon, and see how you feel about it.  Oh, and feel free to read about Haddon's own comments on the book!

There's also a very important essay, Said's Orientalism, which might help you to understand some of my rancor.

[sonerohi]

Aspergers is just the latest medical gravy train. Notice how you don't hear nearly as much about ADD/ADHD as you did a couple of years ago.

Makes me wonder what will be next. I hope we go back to narcissism, now there is a issues I can relate to.

It might be over-diagnosed as a fad, but it is definitely a real disorder.

[Grakelin]

If the statistic is less than 1 in 10,000, why have 1 in 14 people on this forum been diagnosed with it?

[Vector]

If the statistic is less than 1 in 10,000, why have 1 in 14 people on this forum who responded to a thread titled "Asperger's: A Poll" on a forum known to attract clientele somewhat detached from the mainstream been diagnosed with it?

[Max White]

If the statistic is less than 1 in 10,000, why have 1 in 14 people on this forum been diagnosed with it?

Statistical skew from the fact that this is the DF forums, and by it's nature DF is bound to be much more attractive to people who display symptoms accosiated with aspergers, as well as the fact that anybody with aspergers is not likely to pass this thread while many others will?

[sonerohi]

Why is the male to female ratio out of whack in the mens restroom?

[Leafsnail]

Funny story - I knew this kid once, his mother was my mother's friend, and his parents were certain he had Asperger's because he acted like a jerk all the time. They kept bringing him to a psychologist to get him checked out, and one day the psychologist took the mother aside and said: "Look, he doesn't have Asperger's syndrome. That is literally just what his personality is like. There is no way to cure it."

Wheras if he had Asperger's... "Look, he has Asperger's syndrome. That is literally just what his personality is like. There is no way to cure it."