He's right though, RR. You do come across as someone with Aspergers.
You're scoring way over the odds on both the DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria and also Gillberg's Criteria for diagnosis. Have you ever considered that you may have it?
Although, in my experience (as an un-informed non-scientologist), I have found scientologists in general to come across as lacking in empathy/ inappropriately indifferent to a degree that could be seen as Aspergers -I've always considered it a defining trait of the scientology mindset. Can anyone shed any light on this observation for me? I know very little about all this on an academic level - I only have my personal experiences of scientology for reference.
I've met people with Aspergers.
I've met many Scientologists.
Not the same at all.
When you put people in a cultic environment and put a lot of pressure on them, they will act negatively.
Not all negativity and unfairness resemble(s) Asperger's. Far from it.
By that logic, the rather distressingly large percentage of critics who scream at CofS members and Freezoners to the point of net-stalking and net-copping them, or Henry VIII, who lied to and murdered people who'd been friends of his, or the Puritans with their witchhunts or the medieval and Elizabethan Christians with their inquisitions and pograms would resemble people with Asperger's.
They do not.
Neither do Scientologists.
And your generalization re Scientologists is duly noted. Doesn't hold water, though.
I really resent this comment. I was in CofS for years as were many people I knew and worked with- and am now a non CofS Scn'ist. I always bent over backwards trying to help others and to listen to my heart, as did my husband, my friends, and as do Scn'ists I know now. There are a lot of people here who spent years in CofS who've since left it.While I am sure that they, as I, had been stuck in a cultic situation and did do things to compromise their values and conscience, I sincerely doubt that the majority of them- if any of them- had any of the traits of a person with Asperger's.
Personally, I find this "what kind of bug is that" type post to be lacking in empathy. But hey, that's just me.