ugggh. Please don't don't DON'T ever tell me if she does. I have Asperger's Syndrome (diagnosed as a child back before anyone knew much about it, re-diagnosed as an adult as well) and it's a really, really sore point with me. I hate having it enough, I hate having to deal with it, I hate what it's cost me in life, I hate the help I have to get even now as an adult because of it, I hate even bringing it up to be honest and only do so here because it's relevant, and if she starts with some bullshit about it I think I'll just explode. Because I also fucking hate the rampant misunderstanding and over-simplification surrounding it and its symptoms that it has now thanks to it now being more strongly in the public eye/commonly known to people. I don't even know what I'd do if I were instead bi-polar, OCD, or schizophrenic, given how people misuse those terms and throw them around at the rate they do.

also I fucking hate the word Aspie and always have, though that's just me, I know some other AS folks like it.