Well, my point was this, Steve: Even if there are legitimate Asperger's cases, the majority of these poor "victims" are simply nerds. This push to medicate people who are merely different from the percieved norm is troubling and offensive to me. It wasn't long ago that treating, for example, homosexuality as a mental illness (sometimes with forced castration) was a common practice, and this feels like that to me. (Uh, not that I have any weird urges to sleep with nerds, or anything...)

I, too, probably fit the Asperger's criteria, at least when I was younger: Clumsy; socially awkward, nay, retarded; obsessed with primatology and little else; assorted other "symptoms" and general dorkiness, etc. And although most of that smoothed itself out once I got older and started getting laid, I've grown into a somewhat eccentric adult. Thank fucking god. Who knows, if I'd been treated for so-called Asperger's as a boy, I might be reading popular fiction and listening to Top 40 shit.

So, Steve, I agree with you, that people should have an open mind. But not open to excessive, mind-altering drugs. Open your mind and accept the differences that make you and I unique. I say enjoy your supposed "disability," as it probably makes you a more interesting person. :)

---Lepus Rex