> John J wrote:

>> John Jones wrote:
>>

>>> The language we use when describing 'asperger's' and 'autism' tries to
>>> sound authoritatively clinical. That in itself is offensive as it
>>> reduces personality to a physical, diagnostic category. On that basis
>>> alone the diagnosis should be rejected.

>>
>> JJ, there is good research that shows that functional autistics have a
>> different 'wiring' so-to-speak so that they do not respond to other
>> persons being as they relate to their own being. In fact, in many regards
>> the autistic relate to humans as objects, and to objects in different
>> ways. Rather than look at the case as some evil invention of the 'medical
>> establishment', it might behoove...

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>> John J wrote:

>>> John Jones wrote:
>>>

>>>> The language we use when describing 'asperger's' and 'autism' tries to
>>>> sound authoritatively clinical. That in itself is offensive as it
>>>> reduces personality to a physical, diagnostic category. On that basis
>>>> alone the diagnosis should be rejected.

>>> JJ, there is good research that shows that functional autistics have a
>>> different 'wiring' so-to-speak so that they do not respond to other
>>> persons being as they relate to their own being. In fact, in many regards
>>> the autistic relate to humans as objects, and to objects in different
>>> ways. Rather than look at the case as some evil invention of the 'medical
>>> establishment', it might behoove you to look at the research first.

>> A 'difference' in wiring has no bearing on a judgement of illness, not
>> least because a difference between two events is the same for each event.

>
> Where I live the difference is not taken to mean the individuals ill. ...