Thought I'd better introduce myself as things seem to be a bit shaky .

[Zincubus]

Oh for god....

My Daughter is autistic, eight of my best friends are on the spectrum, and most of them have told me that I have aspie traits enough that I should consider going to get a formal diagnosis. Absolutely none of that prevents me or them from carefully considering reasoned stances and adding new points of view to our assessment matrix. Please, don't use your diagnosis as a way to excuse being a condescending jerk, it makes the rest of us look bad.

As you know so many autistics you will be aware of the fact that we / they are all so very , different and behave / react to things very differently whilst at the same time sharing a basic umbrella of Autustic traits ....