VERY interesting posts. Hit me right in the solar plexus (whatever that is). I've actually never heard of "NT"s before, but the two articles make a good point, however. In a sarcastic, funny way, they showed that there no real such thing as a personality "illness," huh? The reason I connected so much with the articles is because they explained exactly what my thoughts were about my sisters when I was growing up.

My sisters would bend over backwards to fit in, even happily changing whatever it was they liked or believed just to seem more like the other person they thought was most popular. I was stone-hard set in my beliefs, so I always complained to adults that they had no strength of personality. Maybe it was anger because they rejected me as "uncool," but I don't think so. When adults laughed about my complaints, I always felt better and didn't think it was such a problem. Did I like my sisters any less for the way they acted? Not at all! I still loved 'em, problems and all. It's just something I thought was "weird" about them. Now I realize that they didn't have a "problem." They were just different.

I'm not diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, but I've never been checked either. I can read people's emotions very well, but I'm flat-out terrible at expressing any. I'm often called, "blank."