Identity politics and using AS as an excuse

Awareness of AS is one of the big stories of the past 20 years. One of the mixed results of that, besides bad depictions of us as dangerous criminals (yeah, I'm talking to you, Law & Order) or as the butt of jokes (ER) is presenting identity politics ('the AS community') as a way to ask for handouts. There are no group rights; just individual rights. There's a place for welfare (people of good will can disagree on the means) but what gets my goat about this is it feeds into the normals' accusation that we're just spoiled malingerers using a made-up disorder as an excuse to be rude etc.



"I have a *&%$ing disease! Now gimme."