What are the disadvantages to asperger syndrome?

Answer 1

People with aspergers are often bullied

Aspergers can lead to deprerssion, since they are lonlier and are have higher stress levels

People with aspergers are often shy, and have troble making friends

Answer 2

Someone with Aspergers does not necessarily have behavioral problems, but they might have behavioral differences.This is a description of Aspergers I wrote for another question on this site.

First characteristic: An obsession. Every Aspie has an obsession. That means that when we care about something, it will grip and fill our whole minds.

An aspie might have a life-long obsession. An aspie can also have short term obsessions. If I have to learn something, it becomes my obsession until I know it thoroughly. I also have two ongoing permanent obsessions. This obsession can be with anything, it depends on the individual. We might talk about it for hours and bore you terribly.

We often learn social cues in adulthood, while other people knew them in their teenage years.

Sometimes we appear weird. Others of us study social skills and learn to blend in very effectively. However, most of us still feel like we never really fit in.

We are extremely sensitive. We may care deeply about our loved ones. Yet we may have difficulty expressing our emotions in ways that people without Aspergers understand.

We also tend to hate loud noises and sometimes bright lights. They hurt. We may have other sensory issues and sensitivities, such as to taste or touch.

Some fictional characters with aspergers are Mr Monk, from Monk, Lars, from Lars and the Real Girl (who is also emotionally damaged), Abed in Community, Lucius in the Village and possibly Fluttershy in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Women with Aspergers are more likely to be undiagnosed and are not often portrayed in movies or TV.

We each have our own personality and Aspergers manifests itself in different ways in different people. Different people may have different combinations of symptoms.

Answer 3

People think you're weird and don't understand you. If I don't tell people I have aspergers, they think I'm weird. If i tell them, they're like "No you don't, you're so normal."

As an aspie, I learned social cues in the second half of my twenties. So I went my teens and early twenties never fitting in, and not realizing it. Now I am good at understanding social things. But I find interacting with most people really exhausting and don't date because when i tried going out it turned out to be exhausting and I didn't enjoy it.

The non-aspie members of my family find me really irritating. This is hard, as you can imagine.

It is hard to read the misconceptions and innacurate stereotypes about people with aspergers. You know, stuff written by people who think we don't have empathy, etc. It's also hard to see how people think we are all the same and don't realize we have our own individual personalities.

I understand small children really well, and connect and form close bonds with them. This is good. But I've had this nagging fear that someone will someday think I'm a peodophile or something. (not in a million years. I would never do something so horrible to children.) I've also been good with animals. (another plus.)

Other aspies understand me, and I them. We have a different style of communication.

I have a very small social circle. This is hard in some ways, as I can get lonely. However, I have a close bond with a few people. I have on close friend, one close caregiver/child relationship, a good relationship with the parents of that child. I feel I care about them more, precisely because I appreciate them as they are the only people I can feel close to. I am happy when I'm around them, and we care about each other a lot.

Answer 4

People with Aspergers often display unusual or repetitive behaviors and some of them can cause problems. Sometimes people with Aspergers are not very flexible with certain changes