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

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Thank you. My eight-year-old son has Asperger's, and we work a lot on the "how to know when someone would not like you to be there" thing. He doesn't always get subtle cues -- "don't you have something to do at *your* house" often fails to work -- but "Please, I would like you to leave now" always does.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You're totally welcome. And yeah, we're working on this stuff with The Joshlet; I refuse to believe he can't get it, and would never excuse him from needing to learn it.