I would kind of tend to disagree with that in a sense...while I certianly don't think aspergers makes me do things in a direct sense. Like say I accidently say something rude without realising it was rude first and was to say 'my aspergers made me do it' well I wouldn't do that....However it is true that having aspergers is probably why I didn't understand why the context was rude but it didn't make the words come out of my mouth. So I guess in a sense I agree one should still be responsible for them self to the best of their ability....but there also are a lot of things that can't nessisarily be 'controlled' or 'changed' especially since its a different way of the brain working.

For instance difficulties processing all the information at once, sensory issues, being overwhelmed by too much chaos having social difficulties I don't see any of that going away...I would say I do socially interact more since i've gotten older but not because I can behave and interact normally, I have just learned situations I can put myself in where it is likely I will have interaction...still can't walk up to someone I don't know and start a conversation. But i think there are differing severities of autism....for instance maybe some people don't have sensory issues as severely and don't become brain dead after a half hour in wal-mart because of sensory overload from the lights, and that buzzing noise they make as well as how they arrange the stores.

I might add to that I never was diagnosed as a child, didn't get diagnosed till 23....so throughout my childhood I wondered what was so different about me, made plenty of attempts to 'fit in' and got a lot of accusations about being lazy when I felt I was trying my hardest, not paying attention when I was paying attention and endless amounts of being bullied by other kids because I was 'weird' or 'retarded' according to them. So yeah no understanding of any difficulties I faced....it got so bad I had a suicide attempt when I was 15 because I felt entirely useless and couldn't understand why people treated me so horribly. So I suppose my point is sure using aspergers as an excuse for everything isn't a good thing, but ignoring that it can significantly effect how you function/behave probably isn't a very good thing either.