A statement like "all (blank) are alike" can be taken two ways. Take blindness, for example. Are all blind people alike? In one way, of course not. Some blind people have perfect hearing, and some blind people are deaf, for example. But in another way, all blind people are alike: they all have bad vision. This is because the word "blindness" only refers to vision. It says nothing of hearing or anything else.
In the same way, all Aspies are alike as far as being Asperger goes. In all other ways, they would vary as much as anyone else.
In that sense, telling someone that you are an aspie does not tell them anything about your hearing or anything else about you, but it does say something about you. What is that something, and does it apply to me?
Both uncompensated blindness and uncompensated Asperger results in social problems and restricted behavior.
Therefore, Asperger cannot just mean social problems and restricted behavior.
There must be some way that all aspies are alike by definition, but I have serious questions about me being alike in that way, even though I do have severe social problems and restricted behavior.
In the same way, all Aspies are alike as far as being Asperger goes. In all other ways, they would vary as much as anyone else.
In that sense, telling someone that you are an aspie does not tell them anything about your hearing or anything else about you, but it does say something about you. What is that something, and does it apply to me?
Both uncompensated blindness and uncompensated Asperger results in social problems and restricted behavior.
Therefore, Asperger cannot just mean social problems and restricted behavior.
There must be some way that all aspies are alike by definition, but I have serious questions about me being alike in that way, even though I do have severe social problems and restricted behavior.
