Psychology and Stupidity

Okay, before I get into this, I'm well aware that not all Psychologists are like this, but I am frustrated with the ones that are, and that is today's rant in short.

So, first things first, you see, I have this mental condition called Asperger Syndrome (Thanks to Sunburn for correcting the spelling.). It's apparently a condition that makes people have difficulty socialising. Now, there are certain kinds of this condition, and probably some of them do actually have an effect, but let me just say, that I do not believe that I have this condition.

I was diagnosed with it, yet I do not feel that it has really affected my life. A lot of people i know who have it (like my brother) use it as an excuse to be a jerk. Here is an example:

Today I had to hand up an hard copy of my assignment to my CAD (computer aided design) teacher, but because we have exams, he wasn't where he normally was. I was on my laptop in the library, and my brother was near me, with a bunch of the other kids from my year (my brother is two years below me, but he likes to follow me about everywhere), when I saw the CAD teacher walking outside. I grab my assignment and run as quickly as I can to catch him before he goes. Give him the assignment, and he asks me how my exam went, so we have a quick chat about that and then I go back into the library.

As I go back through the door I see my brother quickly get off of my laptop and back onto his chair, and I see the other kids snickering while looking at my laptop. I sit back down, and find that my brother has changed my desktop background to Clop. Where I promptly changed the desktop back and deleted the offensive image from my computer. When I went and told my parents about how he had such a thing, he walks in and says that its because he has Asperger Syndrome. BAM problem gone. Nothing is done about it.

Now I may have gotten just a tad off topic with that rant there, but that is no freaking excuse for doing something like that. That isn't because of some mental condition of anything, that's just called being a jerk. However, here's where the psychology part comes into it. Because I supposedly have this 'condition' my mum makes me visit a 'psychologist' once a week, and while I am there they treat me like a frigging idiot. I try and have an actual intelligent conversation with them, all they do is say how I'm using such big words and how smart I must be. I'm not a godamned nine year old, I'm bloody seventeen, and for the most part act a lot more mature than most 17 year old's I know.

So why is it that they treat me like this? "Because you have Asperger Syndrome, and people with Asperger Syndrome need more positive reinforcement in order to be confident enough to socialize like regular people." Now I don't know about you, but if socializing like "Regular people" means I have to talk about nothing but sexual stuff and swear every minute, I'll personally pass and go for the far more civilised approach of talking like who i am.

Now these are just the people in my life, and how they respond to my having this condition. But as I said, I don't believe I have it. The reason why? Because I don't believe it's really a condition. We are who we are, and we should be proud to be that person. Labelling someone with a 'condition' is just a kinder way to say "You're different from the rest of the world, and the only way to explain it is that you have something WRONG with you."

Well you know what. We're not. We might think differently, or act differently, but all of these labels that the world puts on us are just it trying to hold us down, and give it an excuse to isolate us from the world. After all, why actively restrict their rights when you can passively convince people that they have something wrong with them. There are disabilities, yes, but that doesn't make us any stupider, or less credible, or less human than anyone else.

Well that was a long wall of text. Thank you for reading it if you did. As always your views on this would be much appreciated.