Good Question: What Is Asperger Syndrome?

Heather Brown goes to the Autism Society of Minnesota to answer this Good Question (2:38).
WCCO 4 News At 10 – September 24, 2019

[ojbeez]

It's strange. Often, Aspies are very empathetic and very emotional and caring. It's just that they don't communicate it in the normally expected way in society so sometimes get accused of being cold, blunt, unfriendly or harsh when, in fact, they, from thier perspective are showing great empathy.

[benpayne]

as a person with Aspergers myself, I would love to say, no it is not a gift, true we have a high intellectual rate which allows as to excel at what we like, but that is not a good trade-off, we can't read social cues and have to learn them threw routine, our brains don't process information that well and we require proper instructions and to be shown the task multiple times to get it which makes us look stupid, our mind is one-sided which means it is hard to change our train of thought, and so on, I could list more but I have my point across, side note; Aspergers is not an excuse to act like an ass, there are coping measurements to deal with the disability, will also want to say fuck you to the girl saying Aspergers is a gift and fuck you to the people using her to your agender by treating her special. nothing wrong with pushing your political opinion but for fuck sake, don't identify her by her disability or use it as an excuse while ignoring how it can be harmful to one's life and grow up

[pietersfilms]

It's comforting to see how almost everyone hear has asperger
Thanks guys!

[hyemuhyemu]

What if u have occasional problems with spoken language? Ex. I speak fluently, fine, then i trip up and my brain short curcuits and i stumble over, stutter, pause or give up when i realize my mind and the words, sounds coming out aren't matching

[eravere]

I don't have Asperger's but my boyfriend does and I really love him and want to understand what it is and educate myself on it so I can understand him better. He's really amazing and wonderful :)

Nvm lol we broke up

[Not_Interested]

Damn you Southpark. You’ve ruined my life forever

[elijahmakana]

Speaking on behalf of myself i was diagnosed with asperger's sydrome at the age of eight.Therein the video 2:08 is a fact.

[theodiatraderjay]

Hey this is the story of an aspergers from India..

Today after watching this video I am 101 percent sure that I have aspergers. I have some self realisation

1. 90 percent of time my brain becomes stuck/overwhelmed due to n number of thought processing at one point of time.. So that I forgot who I am? I fee lost.. Struggle to keep track of my thinking/feelings
2. I can remember a lot of situation specially in the office where I feel so overwhelmed that I go to washroom to catch some breath/hold my head in a situation I know I can't handle myself.
3.I believe I am not able to understand the feeling of people if they are joking around/serious/ .. I always go very deep into the meaning of conversation with someone so I fail to crack the essence of the topic.
4. I feel most of the time I am very egoistic and can't take jokes etc.. Because I feel nobody is understanding me and my feelings.

5. I don't understand that nobody has the power to hurt me and most of the time they don't want to because they also have feelings.
6. I discovered that it is the fluctuations of emotions which are controling me like sudden joy/anger/jealousy/insecurity etc.
7. If someone's praise can't make me happy why should I worry if they scold me??
8. I believe mixing with kindhearted non aspie people making me understand jokes/more emotions/helping me to take quick decision etc.
9. Most vital thing in this condition is self hurting feelings which overflows all the time and being unnecessary critical of yourself thinking about how others will dislike me
10. I again believe that I have realized these things very late on my thirties which I should have realised probably in my teen age. I blame my condition/bad upbringing /lacknofself awareness for this late realisation..
11. MY GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BETTER AND BE MORE EMPHATIC TOWARDS OTHERS...

Love ❤❤❤ to all

[hayleyscomet]

As someone with it. It’s not a gift. It makes my life a living hell.

[benstevinson]

I was Diagnosed with Aspurgers Syndrome I know how Greta ThunBerg feels! Bless Her!

[cajohnson]

The problem is “give us the resources”. Sadly, resources cost money, and money is a finite source. Society, sadly, does NOT have any mandate to support someone who is a little more challenged than others, rather people only help out when they can, and that is a decision of when someone “can” help out is very dynamic. This leads to society sometimes deciding that it is too difficult to support someone who may need support.

[emmatennyson]

My boyfriend has Aspergers, when the rugby is on I get no eye contact as he gets v upset with law interpretations . Text book aspergers init.

[JM]

I was diagnosed with Aspergers back in the summer of 2003 before smart phones & knowledge of the condition, all I received was a book by some Australian guy . My mum was told when I was young that it was shyness but she knew it was more than just been shy

[der_Allsehende_Seher]

I have Aspergers. No, they ran out of free toasters and tee shirts, so I settled for trois langues, drei Sprachen, three languages au lieu de cela, statt dessen, instead!

[livinglife]

For all the people that has asperger's including me I love you all and we will get through this 💯💯

[thegovtdoesntcareaboutyou]

I'm 15 and I had asperger's syndrome and over time all the symptoms dissaperared now i can see how neurotypical ppl viewed me and now my ways of thinking i had when i had asd don't make sense to me lmao like I'm a different person man
I was diagnosed at 8
I am attending to a therapist recently but not because of that i had asd, and the therapist didn't say a word about autism, i told her i used to have an illness and she didn't guess what it was

[davidspencer]

I have heard that Fox News was insensitive and hurtful and thoughtless. Maybe the presenters and producers and investors are misunderstood, they too are on the spectrum?

[MrMelgibstein]

I was born with Asperger's Syndrome myself and I give this video a thumbs up. Very informative!!

[huliem]

Isn’t it like autism, or defined as an autism spectrum?

[deannarothschild]

What I’ve noticed about many with autism is that *they expect people to be very familiar with their “quirks*and get ANNOYED that neurotypicals don’t AUTOMATICALLY understand autism you need to explain to us who you are and not expect us to just know what you need