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Der_Einzigeyesterday at 3:00 PM1 replyview on HN

First they gave them the name "assburgers" (aspergers) and now this is the solution medicine is proposing?

It's like the medical community wants all high functioning autistics to get bullied like hell in their formative years. Similar irony to "lisp" being unpronounceable by the very people who have a lisp.


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simulator5gyesterday at 9:37 PM

Its unfortunate that society no longer has any mechanism to prevent someone named something like "Asperger" from naming things after themselves. This was a helpful side effect of bullying, like when you fix a bug and it turns out that some people actually relied the incorrect behavior.