Aniiee skrev 2014-10-30 22:45:28 följande:
Ok, så morgonens gigantiska rant var det, ja.,
Upprinnelsen till den var en artikel på cracked.com, och en idiot kommenterad om Sherlock Holmes och huruvida han har Aspergers. Den här personen som kommenterade påstod att Sherlock OMÖJLIGT kan ha aspergers, då alla som har aspergers är kompletta vrak som aldrig ser solen och har musikaliska tics. Typ... Det var ju inte exakt vad han skev, men det var ungefär det han menade. Så..... TROTS att kommentaren var ett halvår gammal kände jag att jag var tvungen att svara, då ingen annan hade gjort det. Så det här skrev jag, klockan 6 på morgonen efter att ha varit vaken i 17 timmar (ursäkta engelskan....)
Ok, so, first of all: You, sir, are so totally off, that I'm going to explain to you how off you are. Second: I got out of bed at five in the morning, just to write this. AGAIN, as my tablet f'ed up. So of this is totally incoherent and nonsensical to you, vlame my tablet. Or your total ingnorance, take your pick.
You are, I assume, NOT a professional working with people with aspergers. Also, as far as I can tell (and, considering that post of yours, I can tell. A mile off), you do not HAVE aspergers, and you don't belong to the asperger community (and yes, there is such a thing as an asperger community, online, at any rate.) If you did, you would know not to write such a thing. ASperger is a wide spectrum, so wide in fact that no one will ever understand it fully, ESPECIALLY not if you're on "the outside". There are aspies that are like you describe (barely, they tend to fall into the "autism" diagnosis, not the "autismSPECTRUM" diagnosis, where we find aspergers nowadays,, but the distinction is rather like splitting hairs at that level).
Here's the thing: I have Aspergers Syndrome. And guess what? I function very much like BBCs modern-day Sherlock Holmes. I'd even say that the biggest difference between us is that he's a guy and I'm... not. Let's do this my (and to some level, his) way:
Extreme amounts of facts about a few seemingly absolutely unnecessary and mundane subjects? Check.
Problems functioning socially? Check. (Mine and his are about the same level. There is many levels between "problems" and "unable". Also, playing roles is part of the social game....)
Composes music (him violin, me piano)? Check!
Observing, reading and "judging" people? Check, and double check! ( Many aspies are really good at this, as we prefer to observe rather than interact.)
Check lists.... yeah, it's an Asperger thingy, for me.
But there is more, much more, to Sherlock Holms that makes him look like he has aspergers. Things that is hard to put one's finger on, but trust me when I say, many aspies see themselves in Sherlock Holmes.
I had this whole post laid out, it was rather nice and explain-y, if I may say so myself, but unfortunately, I don't really recall it now. It was all about how people have ups and downs, just like Sherlock, and about that kid you ignored in school because she didn't want to play at recess so you just gave up on her, and how all aspies are just as normal as you, just that their brains are wired differently so they tend to think in different patterns than you do (often, more logical, logical to a fault sometimes), and that they are actually more different from each other than they are from you. Lost now. I can never re-write things. Which is sad, because that makes people who read my fiction annoyed when I have computer crashes. Happens.
Besides, that thing about playing the same couple of things over and over on the violin? That would be considered a tic. I don't have tics, at least not musical ones. There are aspies that have tics, of course there are. But that's not at all something that is necessary for an asperger diagnosis.
I have aspergers, and most people who meet me doesn?t even know it. In fact, there are plenty of people out there that have aspergers and doesn?t even know it themselves. Especially women, as it is considered and "invisible handicap" among women. Fact is, we are generally just considered.... slightly weird and (not or, because that is a necessity for aspergers) smart. Eccentric, perhaps, a little lonely and isolated. We're the kids that "didn't" have friend in school, didn't invite other kids home after school, because school itself was enough, socially. Having aspergers is like running a social marathon while having the flu every day. Think about that. Actually, for you, the advice will just be: Think. In general. Better keep your mouth shut and let people think you're stupid than to open it and let them know for sure that you're stupid.
So... long post. Sorry about that. And sorry about all the grammatical and spelling errors, and the overall incohesiveness. It's six in the morning, I haven't slept and english isn't my first language.
Det var ett långt inlägg. Var syftet att öka förståelsen för aspergers generellt så sköt kanske upplägget en smula bredvid målet.