Another Paired Signal Boost: "Enough With The Aspie Bit Already"

[browngirl]

You know how people often bring up Asperger's Disorder as a reason/excuse that someone may have done something wrong? Here are two essays by the mothers of people with Asperger's, explaining the multiple reasons why doing so is wrong.

As the mother of an Asperger child by msagara and Enough with the Aspie bit already by rose_lemberg.

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

One of my housemates' kids has Asperberg's. He's eight, and he gets it when someone tells him STOP. He understands boundaries. Okay, sometimes he'll try to push them, but he is, as I said, eight. I never knew much about Asperberg's until I met this kid, but now that I know and love him, I get so annoyed when I see people, both in real life and fiction, blaming their bad behavior on Asperberger's.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was bemused by that excuse till Mr. Joshlet was diagnosed; now it enrages me.