Would you describe Asperger's as a mental illnes?

I would in some ways. Some people are affected in different ways. I, for instance, have minor problems with my co-ordination and am easily capable to play sports well, but I know other people with AS who really struggle badly. Some symptoms seem to affect over Aspie's in different ways.

It annoys me that AS is labelled as 'mild' autism. If it can affect your life and cause you a lot of problems, I wouldn't call it mild.

I'm affected badly by depression, anxiety, OCD and other problems, so I'd class Asperger's as stopping me functioning 'normally'. There are some good points to AS, but it can also be bad for me.

Heya,


Well, AS certainly can affect a person so much that it prevents them leading a 'normal' life. I'm undecided about labelling it a mental illness though. I mean, we appear to be quite normal on the exterior yet other forms of Autism, exteriorly, appear to be definite mental illnesses. I supose that is why AS is called 'mild' Autism: Because the symptoms are similar to the worst-case of Autism but are not as severe. In that light perhaps you can call it a 'Mild' Mental Illness??

A difference, individual subjectivity rather then broadened stereotypical criterion.

One could perceive everything psychologically and anyone aside from them as ill.

"Normal" is simply the people with the most common mental illnesses. No one's completely healthy.

I'd suspect normal is the ultimate fallacy, one in which I do not want to be.

I wouldn’t want to hear voices, see things that are not there or have complex delusions neither. Delusion though is a common human trait; perhaps psychology is in some respects a human evolutionary step to filter-out delusion complexes within society. As if to modify the mental conditionings of typicalities itself and make unpopular and wrong certain ways of being.

The filtering out is the act of labelism for what is not preferred or liked, thus the modification is in what is considered not preferred by labeling it and making it adverse by the symptomatological compartmentalization.

Most notably is the God complex, in society especially now there is a great deal of inter-societal oppositions to such mental ways of being and thought. For some they are insane to believe in such hidden things, while those that do might just paint them to be the anti-Christ’s for thinking they are insane..

Indeed, what is normal and typical in the social-cultural equilibrium, is not of me, everyone else is crazy, I’m normal. I'm the observational type.

I certainly don't enjoy classifying this as a mental illness. I think term is typically reserved for referring to psychiatric disorders such as bipolar or schizophrenia. In any case, due to the fact that someone with AS can make a conscious effort to change themselves, one could be able not have to suffer from it any longer eventually. It just takes a whole lot of work.

Depressed Aspie wrote:I'm affected badly by depression, anxiety, OCD and other problems, so I'd class Asperger's as stopping me functioning 'normally'.

Although some people with AS have these issues, many (including myself) don't. These are separate disorders and while they are serious, they shouldn't necessarily be lumped with AS.

Personally, not having OCD or depression, I consider myself just temporarily impaired, not mentally ill.

i cant verify what exactly "mentall inless" is. however i call these things you describe as a gift and a curse.

prot wrote:i cant verify what exactly "mentall inless" is. however i call these things you describe as a gift and a curse.

I thought you didn't have AS. And how would you classify this as a gift? I'll agree with the curse part though.

I thought you didn't have AS. And how would you classify this as a gift? I'll agree with the curse part though.

i dont have AS. im not AS.. did i say i did. Look at the above statement. I dont see anywhere that i said i was AS. "Gift and a curse". everything is a gift and a curse

prot wrote:i dont have AS... did i say i did

No, you said you didn't. And so did I. I just wanted to know how you classify this as a gift. Not everything is a gift and a curse.