@harr!et 403720 wrote:
I know 3 people who have asperger’s and none of them are or were ‘depressed’. Their social skills just aren’t as up to scratch as most other people’s.
what pisses me off is when people use it as a excuse for bad/criminal behaviour. To be fair its often defence lawyers as opposed to the offenders themselves but if “lack of social skills” is making someone do genuinely criminal things they need to seek help and adopt self discipline!
today some woman round our way (area where me and process live) narrowly escaped being sent down.
She was working in a small bookshop and ripped them off for loads of money. Whilst the owner was on holiday and had entrusted her to look after the business, basically selling the businesses stock on ebay, using the companys resources to deliver the books and keeping the money for herself!
she was busted and brought before Crown Court – her defence lawyer claims the offender “had Aspergers and didn’t understand the consequences” – yet she was intelligent enough to run a entire specialist bookshop on her own and this is the sort of thing what would be a dream job for many people. she wasn’t a little girl either but a year older than me, by this age you should be aware of both your personal strengths and weaknesses.
biggest irony is it was a new age bookshop (process would probably want to buy most of them books :wink:)
