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Having a son and a father with Asperger's, and working with people with Asperger's, I'd have to say at this point "undecided". There are too many variances from one person with AS to the next. If they were like my son or father, no. I couldn't handle having a partner at that degree - my father is much different than my son, fully capable of taking care of himself, but has major social issues which has affected his relationship with my mother, and his relationship with my brother and myself.
Any day they're going to come up with the bad behavior gene, you watch!
I didn't cheat on my wife, i have BBG! You need to be more sympathetic to my plight!
Boss I didn't steal from the company, its my darn BBG wah wah
Hi I'm Bobby Knight and I wasn't responcible for throwing those chairs, it was my BBG
Folks an estimated 300 million americans suffer daily from BBG. But there is help, we've discovered watching porno flicks and drinking 8 shots of scotch makes BBG tollerable...won't you help?
Yes, and I'm sure your just such an authority on many conditions and all their so-called "panaceas."
Yep. For instance, Narcissistic Personality Disorder will be dropped from DSM-5! Can you believe this?! Somebody actually figured than NPD is not a disorder - it simply describes the traits of most men, which is the reason so many women think their men have it. I only would object to BPD not being dropped at the same sweep - fair should be fair, no?! Can't we just call ourselves men and women without assigning disorders to each other and subsidizing the lavish living of worthless shrinks and drug lords?!
Yep. For instance, Narcissistic Personality Disorder will be dropped from DSM-5! Can you believe this?! Somebody actually figured than NPD is not a disorder - it simply describes the traits of most men, which is the reason so many women think their men have it. I only would object to BPD not being dropped at the same sweep - fair should be fair, no?! Can't we just call ourselves men and women without assigning disorders to each other and subsidizing the lavish living of worthless shrinks and drug lords?!
Well I don't have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, so that's a non-issue and irrelevant to this blog. The thing I find strange about all this is you were one of those on that other thread who said you'd rather date a bad boy than a geek when bad boys are about as narcissistic as it gets. You haven't even answered my question here on this one.
Having a son and a father with Asperger's, and working with people with Asperger's, I'd have to say at this point "undecided". There are too many variances from one person with AS to the next. If they were like my son or father, no. I couldn't handle having a partner at that degree - my father is much different than my son, fully capable of taking care of himself, but has major social issues which has affected his relationship with my mother, and his relationship with my brother and myself.
Thank you for being the first person to give me a straight answer to my question and a response that's relevant. Seriously! You see how hard that was everybody? That was like pulling teeth. I'm capable of taking care of myself, too. I presume you read the part where I said I'm an Iraq War veteran, and I'm capable of doing just about anything. I even worked the overnight shift in a convenience store when I was in college. I didn't like it, but it was necessary. I have been trained to read people, too.
My social skills may not be as sharp as yours, but I've learned them through induction and reasoning. Sometimes it might take a minute or two for me to get it, but I'm able to read between the lines. The most plausible thing I can tell you is I can handle a few people at a time, but an entire crowd is another story. I don't have meltdowns at restaurants or ballgames, but the noise can get to me. I'm able to cope in other words. Does that make any sense? And when I'm at a party, I usually am reserved and I have to wait until my comfort level is a little higher before I start mingling with the people, but I can even do that.
Well I don't have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, so that's a non-issue and irrelevant to this blog. The thing I find strange about all this is you were one of those on that other thread who said you'd rather date a bad boy than a geek when bad boys are about as narcissistic as it gets. You haven't even answered my question here on this one.
I was just illustrating the credibility of the "labels."
Yes, "bad" boys ARE as narcissistic as it gets. The problem is there aren't probably even 2 people on this forum who agree on the definitions of "bad boys" and "geeks," which makes discussing the subject a totally futile exercise.
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You see how hard that was everybody? That was like pulling teeth. 
I'm capable of taking care of myself, too. I presume you read the part where I said I'm an Iraq War veteran, and I'm capable of doing just about anything. I even worked the overnight shift in a convenience store when I was in college. I didn't like it, but it was necessary. I have been trained to read people, too.
