Dealing with Asperger's Syndrome

Dealing with Asperger's Syndrome,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Marriages go into meltdown mode every day for things a lot smaller than this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].-----kqr2 1376 days ago | link
True, but it was very fortunate that his wife already had professional experience dealing with Asperger's Syndrome. I was a little surprised that she didn't diagnose him earlier in their marriage.-----nkurz 1376 days ago | link
I'm glad that others feel they benefit from this article, but somehow it rings false to me. It feels like a parody rather than the confession it purports to be. Here are a few of the wrong-notes for me: * He's obsessed with cleaning-product slogans and cattle behaviour?
* He's working as a __marketing__ engineer?
* Standing alone at parties 'kind of dancing'?
* Calling 'methylchloroisothiazolinone' unpronounceable
* Being self-consciously self-centered?
I realize that there is a lot of variation within Asperger's, but this piece doesn't line up for me. It feels to me like a talented MFA student writing a credible impersonation of Mark Leyner or David Sedaris based around a caricature of Asperger's. She got to the part about methylchloroisothiazolinone and said, "methyl, uh, mechlo.""Methylchloroisothiazolinone?" I said."Yeah. How did you know?""What, you don't read the ingredients on shampoo bottles?"True story! But she's a neurotypical, not an aspie.-----krisneuharth 1376 days ago | link
Marketing engineer generally means that you have enough technical design experience and intimate understanding of the product to sell it, probably to other technical people and companies given that his job is at a semiconductor company. And yes, people are really like this. Everyone is different.-----rjurney 1376 days ago | link
It wouldn't really be possible to list his symptoms exhaustively and in terms of the DSM, and have the article be readable by a general audience.-----CWuestefeld 1376 days ago | link
The killer paradox of media. For anything to be interesting, it can't delve too deep. Its just quite hard. You're never going to please everyone, but you can inform a wide audience without being factually incorrect. But in a whole sentence, the delays snowball until I miss a big chunk of the sentence, especially if the person speaks quickly. That's why, in danteembermage's example, his son "has a hard time finding objects using verbal instructions 'grab your shoes buddy.'" If you handed him a piece of paper that said "grab your shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], buddy," he would get the shoes as fast as anyone.
Poor speech comprehension is the root of all unusual Aspie behaviors. ShabbyDoo's son "physically cringes when there's lots of noise/confusion." The confusion comes because there is too much noise and not enough signal. Aspies shy from social situations because they can't understand what people are saying.
Even things that seem like deep-down problems can easily be explained by poor speech comprehension. The article spends a lot of time on empathy, but empathy is not an emotion, it's a social skill. You act like you care about somebody else's problems so you get along with them better. Aspies suck at it because they have a hard time understanding what people are saying, and they just have less chance to develop social skills in general, because it is so hard for them to talk to people.-----ShabbyDoo 1376 days ago | link
Some of his issues sound a lot more OCD than Asperger's-like. Caring about having an even number of gas pumps?Our three year-old recently was diagnosed with Asperger's, so we're learning. Is anyone here an Aspie who could offer some advice?-----barry-cotter 1376 days ago | link
Team sports are great if you can get into them, and completely pointless if they disdain them. dance, martial arts, gymnastics. Spend lots of time explaining the blidingly obvious in terms of social skills. Premature advice: acting, improv, debating are all good for socialisation. They're likely to be nerdier than normal, encourage this, and making friends of like interests as otherwise the chances of having no friends whatsoever until they get to a big high school or college are high (unless you live in a major urban area) If you can get them into a gifted and talented programme, whether a summer school or a proper day school do so. They are likely to put no effort whatsoever into tasks and subjects that don't interest them, give up on this pre-emptively. Try to make sure they encounter challenging material relatively early in their education. I was ~16 by the time4 I got to that and nine years later my capacity for necessary grinding work is still low.-----ShabbyDoo 1376 days ago | link
Thanks for the suggestions. As I suspect I'm a bit of an Aspie myself, I can see social rules from an outsider's perspective. She'll have more trouble explaining why, for example, one (at least in America) can not mention an obese person's size in his/her presence. He knows he's fat, he knows that we know he's fat, and he we know that he knows that we know,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], etc/ Sp. whats the issue? That's a hard one. How do you explain the irrationality of allowing the fat person to suspend disbelief that we're thinking, "Oh mah gawd,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you're really f'ing fat!"-----
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The reality is, autism spectrum diagnoses are done with checklists. If you observe six of more symptoms out of a list of 12 than there is an autism diagnosis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if there is something less you have a not-quite-autism diagnosis. His speech is improved so I'm not sure if he would qualify now, but he does still have physical symptoms. I think he benefited some from his therapy and special education in the public schools and a diagnosis helps determine which therapies might help and which won't. Is he going to be socially slower than he would have been if he'd just been treated like a normal kid. Are we, his parents worried that labeling might do harm? Sure. Why not HFA or PDD-Nos? There's definitely something wrong though -- he shows little interest in playing with other children, physically cringes when there's lots of noise/confusion, and does a bunch of other stuff that strongly suggests an autism spectrum disorder.-----billswift 1376 days ago | link
OCD is one problem that is more common among Aspie's than in the general population; probably because some quirks in autism already tend that way (like flapping,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rocking, and obsessive interests).-----dukeofchutney 1376 days ago | link
Interesting thing is we all (if we were to delve deep enough into ourselves) have Aspergers to some degree,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].-----Herring 1376 days ago | link
Seduction and deceit in humans,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].-----Herring 1376 days ago | link
So I assume you guys approve of him lying to his wife to get her to marry him possibly passing on something hereditary to his kids? It's fascinating the lengths people go to in order to reproduce,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].-----helveticaman 1376 days ago | link
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