Aspies For Freedom

Is that the one with a picture of a head opening up? It is ghastly.

From The Emergence Site -

"That Autism, OCD / OCPD, Asperger's Syndrome, and ADD are the same illness contracted at different ages; more so, that the age of onset determines what will distract the person."

How horribly innaccurate, it makes me cringe. :no

They are basically pumping heavy metals into the childs body, as it is supposed to attract the heavy metals, such as mercury or lead, that are already there.
Who would agree to their child being deliberately injected with heavy metals? :-(

If someone has a point, I dont mind.

I think social anxiety is not generally concerned with "what do other people think I look like" and that kind of thing. Maybe you are misunderstanding what social anxiety can mean.

It can be a fear of being near people, fearing that you will be harmed by them, that you are in danger, that you will be put under pressure to talk and have no idea what to say, or have speech difficulties in general.

Social anxiety does not have to be diagnosed though or follow any criteria. In the same way that sadnes does not have a diagnostic criteria or need to be diagnosed, people can just feel it, and find it unpleasant.

"You are free to make up your own definitions of social anxiety but please accept that when people are discussing what is commonly known as "Social Anxiety", you have to accept that what they say refers to this concept and not the concept you have decided to call "Social Anxiety"."

I was talking about social anxiety, and not the website Wolfy mentioned. I am not "making up my own definitions" anymore than someone is entitled to say how they percieve sadness, or happiness, we don't need a diagnostic criteria for every emotion.

Noetic said "Yes, but "social anxiety" is not an emotion, it is a term for a specific anxiety disorder, and that was the context in which both Wolfy and myself used the term."

You are talking about a disorder, social anxiety disorder, I have not used that term in my posts.
I am talking about social anxiety, this is an emotional feeling of being anxious in social situations, I have not spoken about a specific disorder.
It is the difference between someone saying that they feel down, or depressed, and someone being diagnosed with clinical depression.

Peers can have a big influence on kids, especially with things such as popular tv shows and pop groups. If an NT kid feels pressure to fit in, they don't want to be the only one who hasn't watched the latest reality tv show.

Reading that page made me quite angry - it seems that a lot of people marry or otherwise get involved with someone on the spectrum in a romantic way and then complain about traits which are blatantly obvious.

On AS partners a lot of women complain about their aspie ex husbands and let drop that they were dating them for up to a year. Why they still decided to get married after knowing they weren't compatible is beyond me. Perhaps they thought that they'd change? What disturbs me is how many of these poor men have no contact with their children due to a vengeful NT ex wife - one woman was advised by her solicitor that the judge would never allow an aspie to have contact with their children.

I could rant about this all day, especially as a married man myself.

Are you so sure that there is no explanation for the claimed ban? I have to wander about your claims. A five year old? yeah, interesting. Are you sure that he wasn't just kept out of some certain forums to spare him talk about blood and reading of cuss words? hmm?

Ok, let's get on with the thread being about OTHER web sights now...

Yes, that one's stirred up a lot of angst over the years.  Just don't give them any mroe free publicity, OK?

However, please remember that your opinions and your beliefs stop where you stop and others start.  If I want a cure, I don't need some self-righteous internet stranger ordering me off to see a therapist.  Kindly pull your head in and get over yourself... if YOU don't want a cure, YOU don't want a cure.  What I want is MY business.

Johanna, you waltz in here, start giving speeches more for the benefit of hypothetical google visitors than the actual people on the forum, and start having a go at me because I want to exercise my right to make my own decisions in relation to my health rather than jumping on whichever bandwagon makes me feel righteous.  get over yourself.  Like I said, if I want a cure, that's my business, and maybe it would be polite for YOU to consider that maybe that's based on my own honest analysis of my life, not any hypothetical trauma or self-esteem issues I may or may not have.

And if that isn't polite... to bad.  I'm an Aspie.  I'm blunt.  I call things as I see them.

I am not "flaming" anyone.  I am standing up for myself.  If having a spine makes you hate me, that's just fine by me.

Nope... I was refering to the post above yours.  Never mind, all is forgiven.