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In reply to the discussion: Where the FUCK do people get off equating Aspergers with sociopothy? [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Robyn66
Asberges are definitely NOT sociapaths... I know, I have a brother who have asberger - and he is many things, but not sociapath...
People with asbergers can lie - but they lie very bad, as their body language says one things - when they mouth says a whole different thing - and even though it is not always easy to "read" a people with asberger - if you know how to look, you know when they lie and not.. They are at all as Innocent as "normals" thinks then to be - but for the most part, because of how they look at the world, they tend to speak their mind, regardless of it hurts or not.. As my brother discovered a time, when our first uncle kid was little, and he was telling me that he doesn't liked it when he was crying - my sister overhead it - and got really insulted by it.. He was not bad or evil - he was just telling his mind about what bothered him...
On the flip side, I suspect most asbergers is smarter than "normals" Will ever admit them to be.. As I have told before once, my brother managed to get home from our mothers up in the northern parts of Sweden, and home - more or less by himself - and he managed to get there, withouts paying a dime for most of the trip - as SAS paid for the taxi to the train station (because they misinformed him about where the gate was, and he was on his merry way to turkey before it was discovered that he should not be on THAT airline.. Thankfully he got to the right gate, and was flying with the next aircraft back to Oslo (I suspect it was right before Fornebu was closed down, so I think he got a taxi from there to the down town area of Oslo) where he managed to get a free ride with a train - and was chatting happily with the train driver all the way up, and even get a free taxi to the door step.. And when I asked how he managed to do it - he just looked at me with his specially smile and say - no that is a secret... So at least my brother know to get to where he want to be, regardless of the situation.. But most of them is little lazy - and is rather comfortable letting others do the job - and they coming after when the road is cleared up a little...
In some way my brother is like a boy in a mans body - but sometimes he is a grown up as the body he live in.. And I have been blessed in many ways, to be able to be there, learning him, and knowing him.. And I have learned to sherish what he is - he is a complicated person, but also mye best friend - and more or less also my only familiy as our sister and mother more or less have turned away from both of us...
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