Comments on: Parents seek Asperger’s diagnosis to rise above the rest http://www.anorak.co.uk/347343/news/parents-seek-aspergers-diagnosis-to-rise-above-the-rest.html/ Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Thu, 23 May 2013 20:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anorak http://www.anorak.co.uk/347343/news/parents-seek-aspergers-diagnosis-to-rise-above-the-rest.html/comment-page-1/#comment-477482 Anorak Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:37:39 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/?p=347343#comment-477482 Should we assume that everyone bar Mr Average is nor ‘normal?

]]> By: The Real Stig http://www.anorak.co.uk/347343/news/parents-seek-aspergers-diagnosis-to-rise-above-the-rest.html/comment-page-1/#comment-477481 The Real Stig Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:08:16 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/?p=347343#comment-477481 “Recently I have been contacted by many parents trying to confirm that their children have Asperger’s so that they can ‘allow them to develop above the rest”
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I don’t quite get this. Are these parents trying to get a label in the belief it can be used as leverage to greatness? Alternatively she might have misinterpreted the parent’s motives – a bit of an aspie trait that.

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