About 68.3 million people are diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome world-wide, many of them males, but females can have the disorder to. Many people today discriminate against Aspergers Syndrome because they don't understand the condition of it, or how people with Aspergers act.

Asperger Syndrome is a mental illness. There really is not a specific way to get it, it's either in your genes, or you were just one out of the 68.3 million people to get it. Aspergers is a social dissability, When I say “social dissability” I mean you have trouble communicating with others, sharing your feelings, bad in crowds, difficult to make friends, you can be considered the “quiet” one. Say if you are in that “popular” clique, they invite you to go to the movies, you most likely would make up a lie not to go, because you feel left out, yet you don't realize they are trying to get you to go out and do things high schoolers, and middle schoolers do, like go to the movies, out to eat, etc. Or instead of making up a lie, you might consider the offer and go to the movies, mall or out to eat, but through out the night, they may be socially awkward meaning not talking very much, excluding themselfs during conversations, they may pretend there not even there and totally forget about you. The thing is though, they do not no they are doing that. They are off in there own little world, and they basically drowned everyone else out.

Due to Aspergers Syndrome or any other mental illness, many people do not understand or neither know what Aspergers is. Because of the stimming (hand flaps, squeezing yourself, overly excited, talking to yourself) there is a high risk of you getting bullied. For example, Alex had to move schools because of how bad they bullied him. Alex, (my brother) couldn't have a good friend or a girlfriend because of the bad things others say about him.

Did you know that Adam Lanza, (the Newtown, CT shooter) had a case of aspergers? Because of this incident, the media has been trying to blame the disorder and label it as the reason why Adam Lanza commited those horrible acts when reality, people with Aspergers syndrome are no more likley to commit atrocities then normal people. Because of the social problems they face most people with aspergers syndrome, by the time they reach there teen years will develop depression, anxiety, or both. Infact, it is hard to find a teenager with aspergery syndrome who hasn't expierienced these feelings.

Thanks to sterotypes, when people hear the word autisim and don't know much about it, they often treat people with aspergers syndrome ignorantly and call them things such as "retard", or "freak". Many times people assume that children with aspergers syndrome are mentally retarded or cognitively impaired because they are techinically autistic. However, what makes aspergers syndrome different from other forms of autisim is that people with the disorder have no delay in there ability to learn, to take care of themselfs, or there understanding of the world around them, Infact, many people with aspergers syndrome, due to there disorder, have above average intelligence, excelent memories, and amazing vocabularies. This can be seen in many of the famous people with aspergers syndrome which include Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin even up to the inventor of microsoft, Bill Gates.

In conclusion, people discriminate against sufferers of aspergers syndrome because of sterotypes created by the media and public assumption, and a lack of real world knowledge about the dissorder.