this has just been on BBC radio 4 news ...
Hans Asperger 'Helped Nazis Kill Children', Documents Show
shock_the_monkey wrote:i'm not surprised either, just saddened. and it'll be the beginning of the end for AS as a politically correct nomenclature.
of autistic psychopathy, psychopath is equivalent to sociopath. so, i can kind of see how aspies might be viewed as passive sociopaths, ie: whilst we don't negatively engage with society, we don't positively either.
AprilR wrote:I don't think aspergers was ever used politically correct though especially in the western world. I see a lot of news about shootings where the people always emphasized how the criminal was so anti-social and how it resembled autism and how he didn't have any friends and bla bla.
AprilR wrote:Also i don't understand how sociopathy and autism is similar. Sociopaths don't lack cognitivr empathy in fact they're supposed to be very social and charismatic the opposite of autism. But they lack "consciousness and the feeling of remorse when they do something bad. Autistic people in my experience and what i heard from family members care a LOT about doing the right thing. The reason this two is constantly mixed up is because (completely personal opinion now) in western countries there's a constant "race" between people to become better, stronger and if you're weak in any way it's completely your fault and you deserve to be bullied and shunned from society. Because of this autistic people and especially men internalize a lot of anger and start to display sociopathic behavior when it's not inherently "them" Again this is completely my idea, i've not stayed in a western country more than 1 year but just reading how terrible people have been treated makes me so surprised. As a VERY shy and even sometimes selectively mute person i've never been bullied and was often protected. And i'm very thankful for that.
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