Asperger's Diary

You are considering only the examples of high functioning autistic people some with diagnoses of Aspergers and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. You are not thinking at all about the people, with Autism Disorder, and profound developmental delays, like my son who require 24/7 care and supervision. There are many such people living in residential and institutional care facilities because they can not care for themselves.

The people who host blog sites, make youtube autism dramas, appear in media interviews, lecture and write books are not living he same realities as the people who have little or not ability to communicate with or without technological assistance and require the care of others to survive.

The Neurodiversity movement rarely mentions the more severely autistic people and prefer as you have done to speculate that various gifted people MIGHT have been autistic or possess autistic traits.

Autism is a disorder. Parents who actually care for and love their severely autistic children know better than to buy into the Neurodiversity ideology.

Most of the neurodiversity community acknowledge ofcourse that autism tend to come with disabilities, and for the sake of simplicity call autism a disability, while some might object to call autism itself a disability.

Amanda Baggs is rather low-functioning, aswell as Michael Hricko who visits the Aspies for Freedom forum - these are people who seem mentally incapable of an ordinary life and still believe in neurodiversity.

I have been ruminating this very theme around in my head for the last two years: Are people with AS and ASD "the next generation" of our species?

I have always believed that ALL of us have some type of "mental illness"; the difference is a matter of degree. [My husband has been diagnosed with Asperger's, and I with ADD (quite a combo, huh?)] Is this theory one that has been explored at all? (First time poster.)

My grandson is diagnosed Asperger's. Genius level IQ, but with many Autism-type behaviors. His dad I usually called "difficult", but blamed it on food allergies. Give him red food coloring, and he'd go ballistic. His behavior, looking back, had many of the same characteristics as my grandson.

My son's dad--a little less of the same, and me--quite a bit of the same. High intelligence and odd behavior runs in both families.

A family case study for an Asperger's gene? You tell me.