Social categorisation for beginners

[andrewducker]

1.) People who don't grok social cues = Asperger's Syndrome
2.) People who see, yet choose not to acknowledge social cues = Quite possibly Sociopathic
3.) People who only use social "cues" (hints) to communicate = Passive Aggressive

Stolen from the ever-sparkly autodidactic

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

People on livejournal = generally claim to have asperger's/be bipolar/both

It's shocking how, since it ended up being talked about on the news etc a lot the other year, about 75% of my friends list is absolutely certain they have asperger's, without going to the bothersome step of speaking to any kind of medical professional. What a horrifying undiscovered epidemic there is.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

about 75% of my friends list is absolutely certain they have asperger's

...And about 75% of those are just trying to find an excuse for their shitty social skills?

Well, that's hardly unusual; think about the lazy sods you know who claim to have ME or SAD.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd say 100% of those.

Mysteriously none of the self-diagnosing types dare to speak up about the terrifying stigma that they live with to anyone other than livejournal, myspace, deadjournal, internet fora, mailing lists and random strangers in nightclubs. It is a plague for our postmodern times.

I knew one chap who -actually- had been diagnosed with SAD. In the winter months, he'd turn up to work wearing a baseball cap with a little light on the underside of the bill. That, obviously, was how we found out - it led to questions, and then answers. I also know a lot of people who are looking for an excuse for shitty social skills, or are just jumping on a bandwagon. Line it right up with the usual other "OMG I suffer from ______ like all my online friends" suspects

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Oh they talk about it lots to the DSS, and their directors of studies..

BTW which of the three are you Andy? Shouldn't this have been a poll? :-P

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Bizarrely, I know someone who likes to accuse other people of having Asperger's. Without worrying about such petty things as whether or not they have the slightest training to diagnose such a condition (= no). And they make the same glib connection as the person who wrote the list in the original post (= you don't get my social cues? you must have Asperger's! QED!).

Er, no.

[andrewducker]

I do not have Asperger's.

However, I do think that Asperger's is merely a point on a continuum, and that I'm further down that continuum than the average. But nowhere near enough to actually be diagnosed, or use it as more than a "Well, that's intersting." in conversation.