hey bill can you give me some advice? i have aspergers, and i have been discriminated A LOT for it, which totally wrecked my self esteem. trough out middle and high school i've been treated like i'm a fucking retard. so much that even I believed i was a retard. i refused to shut up about having aspergers / being autistic tho, because i want people to know who i am. when i was 21 i decided to turn things around and stop telling anyone i was autistic, and tell the people who knew / still tought i was, i told them that the diagnosis was not right. not because it wasnt right, i dont know it if it was right. but that diagnosis made people not treat me right, and refuse to listen to who i actually am because the assumed they already knew, because they had read an article about aspergers or something. so right now in my life hardly anyone knows i used to wear this label. it feels good because for once people will actually listen to who i am instead of assum
 e. BUT t
 he misconceptions about aspergers remain. even with new people in my life, some of these people still think autistic = retarded / incapable of anything except math. i feel bad because by shutting up about my diagnosis i am not helping other who still get discriminated. should i 'come out' again as having aspergers? so that people will know people with aspgergers actually all have a different personality that is build up of many layers just like everybody else?
i say flip it, instead of letting someone else (mr. asperger) name your personality after them, why don't you try naming other peoples' personalities after you