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

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Posts that begin:

My aspie daughter....

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Have been really interesting sometimes. (My roommate is a member of aspecialparent).

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

But it seems as if the child has no other characteristics but their disability.
Or am I not interpreting it the right way?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

It's a context thing, I think. If I were going to talk about what I've learned about sunscreen since living with three redheads, I might start with that topic sentence, but it wouldn't mean that my redheaded roommates have no other characteristics than redheadedness. In the context of discussing why Asperger's is not an excuse for violating people's boundaries, the authors of these essays cited their reason for what they know about Asperger's -- their children who have it.

If they were talking about how tall their kids were or something and cited it I think it would be less contextual and more weird.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

If they were talking about how tall their kids were or something and cited it I think it would be less contextual and more weird.

Don't EVER wonder why you're on my friends list.


:-D

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*blushes delightedly*