Asperger's ?

PARENTHOOD! I have been glued to this particular show for a while now. Before you think I am a weirdo, there’s a particular reason. It’s more about kids then anything else. Kids diagnosed with Asperger's, kids encountering bullying and how that affects their family.

The next episode I’ll be watching Adam and Kristen will be telling their ten year old son Max (finally!) that he has Asparager’s Syndrome, (there’s nothing to worry about! You are as normal as your uncle, who lives in a boathouse and can’t pay his taxes.) Ok, I may have extended the boathouse part, but they should have used a better role-model.

I have been thinking about this particular ‘Disorder’ for a while, lack of empathy, communication skills, and other symptoms.

If asked a complete naïve person, people with Asparager are not ‘people person’!

‘Gregarious, outgoing, fun and sociable’ take these adjectives and throw them away. I have never been a party charmer, and yes making friends is not something that’s natural. Having said so, I never thought anti-socials or loners are misfits! On the contrary I felt the ‘fun’ ones have some sort of rare talent (like dancing, singing etc etc), they work as connectors, like tendons in the body! ( Basis of my analogy was wrong, because tendons are more then bones, which obviously I didn’t know)

Turns out most of the people are social kind, the smiling confident ones, who love shindigs, are tolerably comfortable in making connections and they don’t need books, movies as conversation starters.

So where do we fit?

The ones that don’t exactly show the symptoms of Asparager (may be mild) but trying to fit for them is biting more then they could have possibly chewed, the ones who laugh, enjoy, but social gatherings are not their best show, the ones who would prefer home any day then to ‘make new friends’ ‘leave comfort zone’ and all those clichéd lines!       

 Suffice is to say i am talking about myself. Many diary entires, sick rotten poems later i have concluded Aspergers or no Aspergers i am fine with myself, however complacent that is! Having a social life is not everything! (i will deny saying that...)