Talk:Aspies Book/Definitions: What makes me an Aspie?

The book is off to a good start. What other sections are people thinking of besides "What Makes Me An Aspie?"

Could I suggest, "Coping Strategies"? Under that would be "Conversation" and "Executive Dysfunction" and many others.

On the AFF forum someone suggested stories about our day to day lives and such. That would be a great idea to contribute as well.


 * You should write about aspies in general, not about what you are like. Not all your traits are included in the official definition of Asperger's syndrome. The definition doesn't mention long attention span, actually there are aspies that have ashort attention span, too. The official defintion has a list of Asperger traits, and you have to have several of them to be Aspie. You should have the official definition here, and then you write about only the related traits and experiences.


 * Also you shouldn't introduce here a neologism that only one or five people use. See wikipedia:Talk:Autistic culture, and wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aspiette. Wikipedia and Wikibooks are not places to market new, unknown words. Similarly, I am not pushing the word "cap" to an article about the black-headed gull although me and my family use the word in that sense regularly. -Hapsiainen 12:24, 11 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Other pages in this book deal with generalisations. This page is titled "Aspies Book/What makes me an Aspie and others not".  On that basis the content seems reasonable -- Herby  talk thyme 20:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)