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Though infighting between factions of special interest groups is common on Beacon Hill, the schism in the Asperger's community feels particularly inevitable. "You've got to remember: some of these people in these organizations have Asperger's," Patrick says. "So it's just not easy for them to get it together. I think it would actually be good if they came to grips with that."
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In the last sentence, who does "they" refer to?
I thought it was they- the two rival groups.
I looked at that FAAS site... I had forgotten. Nick looked it up when he was trying to "figure out" my AS... he was freaked out for a week that would suddenly start locking the kids in their rooms...
Then his brain started working again...
I looked at that FAAS site... I had forgotten. Nick looked it up when he was trying to "figure out" my AS... he was freaked out for a week that would suddenly start locking the kids in their rooms...
Then his brain started working again...
Is it horrible? I figured it was. I didn't want to look or to link to it, I know it would just piss me off. I imagine it's like one of those "cure gays" sites, all about the tragedy of the non-normal. (Oh, the tyranny of normalcy...)
The FAAAS, Inc. Bulletin Board is a set of online forums intended for the discussion and sharing of information regarding Asperger's Syndrome. This board is intended to deal specifically with the issues of the family members, friends, and loved ones of the affected person.
Please note that this is not a bulletin board for Asperger's individuals themselves. This is also not a board for other types of neurological or behavioral disorders unless they relate to or have a bearing on the Asperger's Syndrome disorder itself.
This board is intended to deal specifically with the issues of the family members, friends, and loved ones of the affected person.
Please note that this is not a bulletin board for Asperger's individuals themselves.
Guardian, is this a quote from their webage? It's like saying "Asperger's: No Aspies Allowed"
Incredible.
yes it is.
I read one posting on that bulletin that their "aspie" mother locked their children in their room to go to the store (some long time ago, 60s maybe, I don't remember).
I said to myself aspie=child abuse/neglect??? No. I think its very much more likely that that person had an abusive parent. Their neurological wiring didn't cuase them to be horrible... they were just horrible.
A lot of it is the same old garbage... aspie parents don't hug their kids, feed themselves and don't feed their children... emotionally detached... that sort of thing.
{Sarah feels it necessary to point out that she hugs her kids very regularly, feeds them on a regular eating schedule and is very emotionally attached.}
Ummm.
Why does this article say the bills are basically the same, when...very clearly they arent? Besides the fact that they are both about funding for something Asperger's related. I wouldn't say a class where family members can go to *** about their AS relative and hear about how troubling AS is, and a program that actually integrates forms of support to better the lives of people who are having trouble are THE SAME. What a moron.
And the point about assuming people with AS adding to the homeless problem was lovely.
And yes, don't pay attention to the fact that some people who have Asperger's might have widely different opinions than FAAAS, the reason why they don't get it must be because people with Asperger's cant get things together. And the best, "it would be good if they came to grips with that".
Umm.
Like "Oh, sorry, I have Asperger's Syndrome and mess everything up and you can't trust me to get it together so I won't bother doing anything because you know whats best for me."
I said to myself aspie=child abuse/neglect??? No. I think its very much more likely that that person had an abusive parent. Their neurological wiring didn't cuase them to be horrible... they were just horrible.
A lot of it is the same old garbage... aspie parents don't hug their kids, feed themselves and don't feed their children... emotionally detached... that sort of thing.
For any group there are stereotypes that are simply ignorant (all the gays love Madonna) and there are stereotypes that are evil and destructive (all the gays are child molesters)
Of all the Aspie stereotypes, the most evil is "Aspies don't love." Often it's accompanied by "... the way we do."
The "they don't love the way WE love" *** was used to justify selling children away from their mothers in the days of slavery and it's used against gay marriage. It's the most abominable lie that an oppressor group tells about the oppressed group.
here a better one"They CAN'T love they way we do."
this is so sad. I hope a bill gets passed because I have my eye on Pine Manor College for women in Boston which has admitted Aspies before and has a good tutoring center AND is affordable.
Hope could go there then enter this MA program if it ever materializes. God knows it will take SC another decade before they have a similar bill, but recently a Charleston lawyer did introduce a bill funding Aspie parents ($10,000/lifetime with BC/BS- only big employers though). I never heard whether it passed or not.
Couldbe cousin hit it right on the money there!!! Aspie does not equal bad marriage, bad marriage equals bad marriage.
And an aspie under the stress and demands of an overbearing NT wife/hubby is a very distraught aspie! Very true, CBC.
Ellen, I didn't know you were in SC, we're in NC.