Asperger''s Syndrome

A friend sent me an email saying he''s just been diagnosed with Asperger''s.%0D\ %0D\ While I have never noticed anything usual, he has suspected a problem since childhood.%0D\ %0D\ Besides assuring him that he can now find help, is there anything else I can do?

• Get him a model train set and a mail order bride.

• suck his dick

  they all love oral

• A serious answer: Educate yourself. Read up on Asperger and Autism.

  http://www.autismspeaks.org/

  Here''s a good place to start

• Assburgers sucks.

• It''s the male version of fybromyalgia.

• OP here. Thanks, r3, now I can talk with him about the condition without sounding clueless. Found a support group in his area on the site.

• The more polite term is "Butt-Patty," OP.

• If you really did not notice anything different about him, then he is a high functioning with Asperger and should consider himself lucky. Asperger is on the autism spectrum and can be very debilitating to some of the people who have to live with it. It does get somewhat easier as they get older, sometime.

• Ditto R5; does he also have a peanut allergy?

• R5 and R9 are lucky that they know no one who has to live with Asperger. It doesn''t mean that they are not idiots, just lucky.

• Assburgers Delux!

• Three of my closest friends have Asperger''s. A fourth is just below the Asperger''s threshold, testing-wise. It seems pretty normal to me. Highly intelligent with greater difficulty in the social arena, and some specialized ways of learning. All three are very geeky, but then all my friends are. It is honestly no big deal.

• [quote] It''s the male version of fybromyalgia.%0D\ %0D\ True. But it also costs us a fortune in special education. This and "autism spectrum disorder" is why property taxes keep rising. School budgets are bloated with special needs education.

• I know a man with Asperger''s. He''s in RETAIL MANAGEMENT, of all things. He knows the wholesale and retail prices of every item in his department and he can calculate gross margin in his head faster than most people can on a calculator, but he often has to be reminded to even say hello to people on his staff.

• [quote]Three of my closest friends have Asperger''s.\ \ What does that say about you? Do you like people who do not get emotionally attached or invested?

• Fibromyalgia is likely caused by quinolone antibiotics, which women are prescribed much more often than men because they suffer more UTI''s. Look up Cipro, Levaquin or Avelox poisoning. They cause severe damage to human cells and/or DNA that does not show up in any mainstream testing. Educate yourself before you end up poisoned by your doctor and an absent FDA.

• [quote]because they suffer more UTI''s\ \ I''d like to see the stats on that one, dearie

• Risk factors%0D\ %0D\ Women suffer from UTIs more frequently than men due to the close placement of the urethral opening to the vagina and anus.%0D\ %0D\ Other risk factors that make them more prone to UTI include urine tract defects that block flow of urine, menopause, pregnancy, surgical procedures involving the urinary tract and a suppressed immune system. UTIs are also found to occur more frequently in women who are sexually active as against those who%E2%80%99re not.%0D\ %0D

  http://www.mdhil.com/dealing-with-a-urinary-tract-infection-uti/

• So many of these diagnosis are bogus. Most are more like to have an Asparagus syndrome than Asperger''s.

• In adult women, though, the rate of UTIs gradually increases with age. Scientists are not sure why women have more urinary infections than men. One factor may be that a woman''s urethra is short, allowing bacteria quick access to the bladder. Also, a woman''s urethral opening is near sources of bacteria from the anus and vagina. For many women, sexual intercourse seems to trigger an infection, although the reasons for this linkage are unclear.%0D\ %0D\ According to several studies, women who use a diaphragm are more likely to develop a UTI than women who use other forms of birth control. Recently, researchers found that women whose partners use a condom with spermicidal foam also tend to have growth of E. coli bacteria in the vagina.%0D\ %0D\ Recurrent Infections%0D\ %0D\ Many women suffer from frequent UTIs. Nearly 20 percent of women who have a UTI will have another, and 30 percent of those will have yet another. Of the last group, 80 percent will have recurrences.%0D\ %0D

  http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/utiadult/#risk

• Of COURSE, this thread has been hijacked by fibromyalgia and UTI''s.

• Aspergers is high class Fibromialgia. Each is as bogus as the other.

• [quote] Women suffer from UTIs more frequently than men due to the close placement of the urethral opening to the vagina and anus.\ \ Wiping back to front?

  Cheryl

• [quote]"Three of my closest friends have Asperger''s." What does that say about you? Do you like people who do not get emotionally attached or invested?\ \ They all get thoroughly emotionally attached -- that''s a false stereotype. But they often aren''t conscious of the need for social interaction or social niceties. That can be a bit of a pain sometimes, but because their social filters are lacking, I can (indeed, need to) say things very bluntly to them without their getting upset. It''s a nice change from having to walk on eggshells around people.

• "Asperger's" no longer exists, according to the DSM. I don't know how to link but the New York Times has an editorial about a teen who was forced to bear the diagnosis of a disease that doesn't exist, and traumatized. It's criminal how over-anxious frau moms, with the help of the medical establishment, have been foisting this bogus diagnosis on teens (and adults).

• Here's an example of Aspergers in motion: Last night instead of turning around on a busy road to go only a quarter mile, this guy decided to take the back roads shortcut. Fine but he never thought that the back roads aren't paved after the snowstorm here. So instead we ended up on back roads sliding and hitting potholed like conditions. A normal person factors in the obstacles but not an Aspie. His brain only goes as far as a Google map in normal conditions. They also make more out of everything. They see obstacles where there aren't any and don't see obstacles where a normal person would factor it in. God, they're so dumb. It's so frustrating for above average intelligent people. Thanks for letting me vent.

• There's a good (and funny) book by a guy with Asperger's called "The Journal of Best Practices." The author's name is David Finch, and the book began as a list of helpful hints he jotted down, to keep from pissing off his wife with behavior that was accidentally anti-social. (An example: "Don't change the radio station when she's singing along.") For people without Asperger's, it's a useful look at what kinds of common-sense things a person with Asperger's might not understand. And I think it could be helpful to a person *with* Asperger's, too, both as an actual guidebook and a "you are not alone" kind of support thing.