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Re:Social Anxiety by hachre on Monday October 26, 2015 @12:21PM (#10452379)
You are confused. It has nothing to do with offensive. It has precisely to do with less-descriptive. Aspergers was misused by therapists for over 40 years while others in other parts of the world used it correctly. The terms I mentioned were introduced in the last 10 years to clean the mess up.
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Re:Social Anxiety by drugsAreBad0001 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @02:38AM (#10469595)
First off, do you have any idea how insulting it is to tell someone with a disorder that they're "confused" about it? Kindly go fuck yourself.

Secondly, you're an idiot.

Aspergers is a specific form of HFA/Autism, not the other way around. Not all people suffering from Autism have Aspergers, but all people suffering from Aspergers have Autism.

It'd be like saying "thumb" is less specific than "finger", which is plainly stupid.

So again, shut the fuck up. Stop speaking for a group of people you have ZERO RIGHT to speak for.

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