Is Aspergers Syndrome a disability

[Aardvark State]

Is Aspergers Syndrome a disability or is it just a different type of personality and is it offensive to say that someone with Aspergers is mentally disabled my brother has Aspergers he rarely talks to me and when I can get him to talk all he talks about is Advanced Math

[Tsuntion]

Hm, why are those the only two options for it?

[Kanaria]

Is Aspergers Syndrome a disability or is it just a different type of personality

In social interaction, it would certainly be a disability. But at the same time, Aspergers is a different personality style, more focused on details one would consider "odd" than the others, as far as I know.

[Frankfurt567]

I've been diagnosed with it and I don't consider it a disability to me in anyway.

[The Jahistic Unified Republic]

I do not think so, except in the realm of social interaction [/akidwhohasit

[Oterro]

it tends to manifest in social inhibitions i suppose. debatable?

[Jessjohnesik]

No shit sherlock. -_- . That doesn't mean they shouldn't be part of the society.

[The Jahistic Unified Republic]

Is Aspergers Syndrome a disability or is it just a different type of personality and is it offensive to say that someone with Aspergers is mentally disabled

OP, you do know it's common courtesy to tell us what you think, right?

[Astholm]

Officially (by government standards, that is), it is.
Technically speaking, it is a sideform of autism.
However, it's a very grey area, so to speak.
But from a different perspective (i.e. my own opinion), it is just a form of being different.

This is from someone who knows people with the disorder (and I won't say on here whether I do or don't have it.)

[The Blaatschapen]

It's not so black and white. For some of the more severe cases it can be considered on par with a mental disability because it makes the people unable to function on a reasonable level in society. For some of the lighter cases it's just a hindrance in some aspects, but nothing they cannot learn to cope with.

[Frankfurt567]

It's not so black and white. For some of the more severe cases it can be considered on par with a mental disability because it makes the people unable to function on a reasonable level in society. For some of the lighter cases it's just a hindrance in some aspects, but nothing they cannot learn to cope with.

For some of the more severe cases

I think you're getting confused with Autism.

[Caninope]

It's not so black and white. For some of the more severe cases it can be considered on par with a mental disability because it makes the people unable to function on a reasonable level in society. For some of the lighter cases it's just a hindrance in some aspects, but nothing they cannot learn to cope with.

For some of the more severe cases

I think you're getting confused with Autism.

Asperger's is considered a form of Autism.

[Warshania]

It's not a disability.

[Bafuria]

Yeah sure, but not a particularly severe one compared to many other mental disabilities.

As for the poll, I was suspected to have autism as a kid and was sent to a psych, but apparently I'm only a little eccentric.

[United States of America Under Dodes]

I was actually recently diagnosed with aspergers and I don't consider it a disability. To consider aspergers a disability would be on par with considering something like being left-handed a disability. It's only considering odd because it exists, with using the example given, in a right-handed world.

[Der Teutoniker]

I think it is usually considered a social disorder, not a mental disability.

[Elysium Bay]

I have Aspergers Syndrome, and I frankly prefer the term social disorder rather than mental disability, mainly because, to me, the idea of me having a mental disability is somewhat degrading.

So yeah, I'd say a social disorder.

[Luziyca]

For me, I consider Asperger's to be a disability THAT is part of a hierarchy. It is part of the autism spectrum, which IS NOT a disability of itself, but rather, an umbrella term that covers PDD-NOS and autism, as well as Asperger's. As one who has high functioning autism, I think that it does not matter that it may be removed. All I care is that if it IS removed, they may need to change terms in documents.

[The Joseon Dynasty]

Not necessarily.

[Ifreann]

Is it in the DSM?

[Lindenholt]

hmmmm does ''parts'' of asperger syndrome count to???

[Linux and the X]

Of course it is. People need to learn some social model.

[Ragnarum]

As someone who is autistic, the most irritating thing is when people think we are incapable of anything without help, when I was in high school the teachers talked to me as if I was completely fucking mental.

[The Joseon Dynasty]

As someone who is autistic, the most irritating thing is when people think we are incapable of anything without help, when I was in high school the teachers talked to me as if I was completely fucking mental.

I had a weird experience with teachers, too. They'd always ask me if my behaviour was just me being naughty or if it was "the Asperger's". Obviously, I'd always say "the Asperger's" because then they'd just coo and tell me to express myself better.

I think I did a solid two or three years of primary schooling without doing any work whatsoever.

[Frisbeeteria]

We already have a thread on this.