Does anyone know anyone with Asperger's syndrome? If you do, how do you deal with it? In my opinion, as much as it has it's positive attributes, it is by far one of the hardest neurological disabilities I have dealt with.
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Liliana Vess
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Yes, most of my family has it in various degrees and forms. My sister gets help with caretakers for her two boys when she needs a break from them.
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Yes, one of my good friends has it. He can speak 10+ languages and draw a map of any country with the state/county/parish etc. lines, cities and towns etc., graduated summa cum laude. Unfortunately he has the maturity of a 6-y-o. So, much like alcohol I have to take him in small amounts.
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I had a friend with Asperger's. Unfortunately at the time I didn't understand what it was. I pushed her past her limits and she stopped talking to me. I still miss her even though I haven't spoken to her for several years. Edit: I reread your question and I just want to add that many if not all of the challenges people face in life have positive attributes. I don't believe I would be able to help people as much if I hadn't had challenges myself.
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Very much so. I have Asperger's Syndrome. I think, the worse thing about having the disability is not actually having it, but how others react to those like us. They just don't understand. And because of this, I will always feel like I'm in a foreign land, struggling to talk like "normal" people but coming off as strange.
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Yes, my son has it, along with ADHD. It is quite the experience to deal with him at times, but he is sooo smart it's amazing.
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It can be hard and depressing. No social life while others go to parties and "hook up" can be extremely difficult. I have it and I have shyed away from the world my whole life.
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I have an aspie grandson. When he was a child it was *very* difficult for him and for my daughter, but as he has got older, so he has developed coping strategies. He is now a very strange, but much more likeable teenager.
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I have it, but now, in my 50's, I have learned how to deal with it. I don't socialize much, and never with more than one or two people at a time. I have a very limited circle of friends, who all think I am strange, but still like me for some reason. Growing up, it was awful. I was a social misfit and could screw up any conversation in under a minute. Things that everyone seems to understand from birth, I hadn't a clue about. I am still lost in social groups and so I avoid them. I like it in my house where I understand the rules!
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I have dealt with my condition, even before I knew what it was, by developing coping strategies and survival skills. Most of these involve intentional isolating myself and avoiding all unnecessary social interactions, I have found that it is less painful to be though of as cold and unfeeling than to be an object of ridicule or the target of a sexual harassment charge. +5
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