There Are So Many Paths
Asperger's Syndrome is a journey within the over-all journey of life. For those of us diagnosed as adults the journey may have a few added challenges to it. Life is a journey, not a destination. Within...
View ArticleThe Pardox of Social Impairment and Profound Social Disconnectedness
There is an inherent and burdening paradox within the reality of being an adult with Asperger’s Syndrome. Central to the most devastatingly-challenging reality of Asperger’s Syndrome is its synergistic...
View ArticleAspie Confession – Personal Update March 2010 – to The Pardox of Social...
This is an up-date to the article I wrote in 2005 entitled, "The Pardox of Social Impairment and Profound Social Disconnectedness" 2010 Up-date It's now been five years since I wrote the above article,...
View ArticleDo Aspies Have Empathy For Others?
Almost every definition I've ever read about Asperger's Syndrome lists among the traits and/or characteristics attributed to those with it as not being able to feel empathy for others - as not having...
View ArticleAsperger’s Syndrome – People are Not Stereotypes
The diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s Syndrome, like so many other “labels” is so stigmatizing and stereotyping. As if all people with any given “label” or any group of people, regardless of why or...
View ArticleAsperger’s Syndrome Does Not a Murderer Make
The horrifically tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in NewTown CT, U.S.A., Friday December December 14, 2012, which took the lives of 20 beautiful and innocent children and six brave...
View ArticleThe Stigmatizing of Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome
There is a lot of stigma about what it means (especially in adulthood) for an adult to have Asperger’s Syndrome. Why is that? There are as many reasons as people who hold stereotypical views about...
View ArticleIndividuals with Asperger’s Syndrome don’t lack empathy – in fact if anything...
A groundbreaking study suggests people with autism-spectrum disorders such as Asperger’s do not lack empathy—rather they feel others’ emotions too intensely to cope. People with Asperger’s syndrome, a...
View ArticleAdults With Asperger’s and Too Much Empathy
Very unlike the “traits that define” Asperger’s Syndrome – or more recently – as it is lumped in now in the DSM 5 with Autistic Spectrum Disorder – a lack of empathy is just not an accurate trait to...
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