Those who say people don't have AS just because they have succeeded in their life or they go to parties or go to bars, have a partners, etc. are asses IMO. I think they're just jealous because an aspie is having something they can't have or don't have, so what do they do about it, say "You don't have AS" or "He/she doesn't have AS."
Heather on the top American Super Model show got that crap on WP. She saw all that and mentioned it in her blog. She never replied to any of the posts.
I have an aspie friend who likes going to a bar and drinks and he also loves going to his favorite sport games in his town and another aspie saw the picture he posted with him at the game and told him he wasn't an aspie because no aspie would go to a sports game he said. What a jerk. Glad I stopped talking to him. He was a pain in the ass on the forum we all went to and then he left and the forum was less active because he created dramas and had arguments with one of the mods. I may like them but him, he was hell annoying and I didn't care he had left.
The term for them is "Uber Aspies" or "Aspier-than-thou". (My invention ) The forum worlds are full of them. It's the same type of peer pressure and ridicule that we complain about NT's using on us. I like going to a bar once in a while, of course it's only certain type of bars that I can tolerate. I liked going to sports games too, that is when time and effort allows. Anywho I have no tolerance for those who say, "Those who don't act like this are frauds", "People who don't think like us are frauds".
So what are we complaining about NT's for???
Very clever and appropriate.
Hey, it's a good thing they have not identified a genetic component or some of us might actually have autistic children.
Then, what the hell would we do?
I wonder who my daughter got it from?
Couldn't be me, since I'm married to her dad.
I couldn't have gotten it from my dad, since he was married to my mom.
Seriously, Richard, we are all the same in some ways and all different in others. Just because some of us are married or have children or attend parties, that does not mean that we don't have our own set of challenges to deal with. Saying that married people can't have AS would be kind of like saying that anyone who has had sex can't have AS and you know that's not true.
I like Ozymandias' invention, "Aspier-than-thou."
I don't want to name names, but there was this guy we knew who said that everyone who was not exactly like him in every way was a "fake aspie."
He was kind of funny, in a way. I wonder where he got his credentials for diagnosing people with AS, especially over the internet.