Goth vs. Just plain Weird.

[HellforgedX]

What admin?

[MollyMac]

Amelia and Dirtap, usually.

[Solumina]

I don't think either of them are still around, at least according to their user profiles their last activity is quite some time ago, though Gothic.net (as in the user) is still on just about every day

[MollyMac]

Either way, laissez faire. I dig it.

[Albert Mond]

Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia

It IS an excuse for not fitting in. Everyone has problems. Some people get over them, and some people use them as crutches.

Didn't say you can't broadcast it. You already have. I think it's tacky and attention whoring. You want to be special, but you're not, so you tell everyone you're "an Aspie." It's exactly the same as when people go around talking about their bi-polar disorder or bulimia.

And it's not the same. People who have Aspberger's are people who are working through living their lives in spite of being born with a challenge.
"Aspies" are people who want everyone to know how special they are so people look the other way when they do things that are wrong, whether or not it was caused by the disease to being with.

It's Asperger's. No b.

[PinstripesAndPithHelmets]

Originally Posted by MollyMac

Either way, laissez faire. I dig it.

It didn't work for the credit market, but, hell, this ain't the credit market. Let the invisible hand take us where it may.

[MollyMac]

Credit markets are destined for failure because of too many hands, here, we do not have that problem so much.

[Underwater Ophelia]

Originally Posted by Albert Mond

It's Asperger's. No b.

Mmm. I knew I was spelling it wrong because of the little red line, but I didn't feel like looking it up.

Thanks.

[Solumina]

I know that this is just me being picky but it isn't Aspergers, it is Asperger's Disorder, Asperger Syndrome, or AS if you feel the need to shorten it. Saying that you have Aspergers is like saying that you have Lyme instead of Lyme disease or Mortimers instead of Mortimer's disease.

[Despanan]

Ass-Burgers.

[Serren]

I did know someone some time ago who had Asperger's Syndrome and I think he got a bit paranoid about being socially inept and he would be really anxious about saying the wrong thing when you talked to him. He'd tell you when you first met him he had it and you could see how nervous he was to talk to a new person. He'd also constantly apologize for saying the wrong thing or not reacting right when he was doing fine. I think that put people off a little but once you got to know him he was really cool. I think he would of had an easier time if he'd not said what was wrong, but obviously if he'd had problems in the past or whatever maybe he felt he had too.

People have always called me weird right from when I was very young. I am not particularly bothered by it. I find most people have 'odd' things about them if you get to know them well enough. My step son is really eccentric, his a lovely kid but he really does stand out as being a bit 'weird' I guess.