'Racket Aspergers'. Views?

breakingout wrote:Well I think it just depends on which direction your special interest or natural talent takes you.
Some Aspies become great musicians and composers, some become visual artists (perhaps not through raw creativity as such but through repetition and attention to detail), some become actors or film directors.

This has never made any sense to me. It looks very much as though Asperger's is so poorly formulated that it encompasses just about anybody, except socialites. This is ridiculous. Artistic people have a disposition that is poles apart from those who are very rational in their way of thinking. Just now and then you get somebody claiming that people with Asperger's aren't exclusively geeks -- there are also some creative types among them. All I can say is, this whole domain lacks any kind of discipline as regards the structures of the debate. It's entirely ad hoc as to who may be considered to have Asperger's and who may not.

<<Others like myself spend all of their time trying to understand how things work and absorbing information and so turn into stereotypical nerds and geeks.
I never had a great thing for numbers or statistics, as far as I am concerned knowing that pi is 3.14159 is as much details as I ever need to worry about. I just wanted to understand the mechanisms behind everything from the internal combustion engine, telephone, television, computers etc. in general, once I learned about how it all fit together I would move on to something else.>>

Really, I can't see how any of this can have led you to consider yourself one with special needs. Why don't you just ditch this ludicrous form of segregation?

Dynamite wrote:

breakingout wrote:Well I think it just depends on which direction your special interest or natural talent takes you.
Some Aspies become great musicians and composers, some become visual artists (perhaps not through raw creativity as such but through repetition and attention to detail), some become actors or film directors.

This has never made any sense to me. It looks very much as though Asperger's is so poorly formulated that it encompasses just about anybody, except socialites. This is ridiculous. Artistic people have a disposition that is poles apart from those who are very rational in their way of thinking. Just now and then you get somebody claiming that people with Asperger's aren't exclusively geeks -- there are also some creative types among them. All I can say is, this whole domain lacks any kind of discipline as regards the structures of the debate. It's entirely ad hoc as to who may be considered to have Asperger's and who may not.

Not really. Being "gifted" or "talented" is not part of the diagnosis for AS. It's not a requirement to be a geek, an artist, an intellectual or anything similar.