[discostu]

As I dig deeper into this topic I think it many ways this is similar to ADHD and PTSD and a few others. Over diagnosed. Back when I was growing up we had a name for kids with the symptoms of Asperger, they were called "pain in the ass" (notice there's heavy overlap between those symptoms and the ADHD symptoms too)... actually I shouldn't say "they" I should say "we". Yes I was a pain in the ass kid. Always in trouble, generally obnoxious, sometimes monofocal (I once unspooled the internal antena of a radio trying to figure out how it works), didn't have a lot of friends, I still do the awkward pose thing. This wasn't considered a syndrome that needed expensive treatment and psychotropic medicine. It was considered a character flaw that could be eliminated (or at least focused and controled) with good parenting. And it worked, now I'm in software QA and get paid good money to break things figuring out how the work. It was considered part of the crap shoot of being a parent, sometimes you got a good kid that didn't break stuff and rarely needed to be scolded, sometimes you got a pain in the ass that you had to keep finding new ways to punish and direct. But of course nobody makes money because your kid is a pain in the ass (well maybe Radio Shack), but once your kid has been diagnosed with a syndrome the money train is going full force.

[Jim Noble]

>>Yes I was a pain in the ass kid. Always in trouble, generally obnoxious, sometimes monofocal (I once unspooled the internal antena of a radio trying to figure out how it works), didn't have a lot of friends, I still do the awkward pose thing. This wasn't considered a syndrome that needed expensive treatment and psychotropic medicine<<

We are probably overrepresented on FR.