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No offense, and I think your approach to the cipher sounds like a pretty good one, but why do so many people try to self-diagnose with Asperger's? Pretty sure
by jarin 16y ago
No offense, and I think your approach to the cipher sounds like a pretty good one, but why do so many people try to self-diagnose with Asperger's?
Pretty sure there are clinically-accepted criteria for it that go beyond "nerdy and slightly awkward".
- noonespecial 16y agoIts a scale. With a bell curve. No one is 0% and no one is 100%. Why do half of people claim to be above average? "Nerdy and slightly awkward" might just mean "a little bit left of the middle". And some are more than others. How far left do I need to be before I get my official merit badge?
- schrototo 16y ago> Why do half of people claim to be above average? Because of illusory superiority. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority)
- noonespecial 16y agoThat would be why more than half of people claim this. I should have said "Why could half of people claim to be above the median." Oh dear. I think I might be below average.
- Shibalba 16y agoBetter than having feeble kids, I guess.
- Klonoar 16y agoTo be fair, I don't believe he outright said his reasoning for being diagnosed, you're just assuming he's taking the label for being "nerdy and slightly awkward", presumably for being on this site. In reality, his comment leaves nothing to indicate that doctors/et al couldn't have indicated that he's borderline over the years.