Amen to the above.
I work with children with Aspergers, and perhaps the main reason the "label" is worthwhile is because the way to learn and teach social skills, etc is different with Aspergers than with other people. Folks with Aspergers can often be without the ability to read some social and emotional data from others, and need to learn these things in a much more intellectual way than others.
Doing all that work rarely seems worthwhile unless you know why you need to learn it, and why you didn't just pick it up while growing up, the way other kids did. A label without help, or adding stigma isn't helpful. A label that increases understanding and gives you options, choices and hope can often be a relief.
Aside from maybe noodling around with a few sound effects, the first one of note was part of the radio drama of Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Sadly a dead hard drive before I bought a burner relieved me of a fairly neat mp3 collection:( I don't have time or energy to muck with file sharing these days. I miss Napster:(
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Amen to the above. I work with children with Aspergers, and perhaps the main reason the "label" is worthwhile is because the way to learn and teach social skills, etc is different with Aspergers than with other people. Folks with Aspergers can often be without the ability to read some social and emotional data from others, and need to learn these things in a much more intellectual way than others. Doing all that work rarely seems worthwhile unless you know why you need to learn it, and why you didn't just pick it up while growing up, the way other kids did. A label without help, or adding stigma isn't helpful. A label that increases understanding and gives you options, choices and hope can often be a relief.
Aside from maybe noodling around with a few sound effects, the first one of note was part of the radio drama of Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Sadly a dead hard drive before I bought a burner relieved me of a fairly neat mp3 collection :( I don't have time or energy to muck with file sharing these days. I miss Napster :(
BW