My personal feeling is that Asperger's Syndrome is NOT a mental illness. I am simply different brained. The psychiatrists who have invented their own jobs and their own field of nutsiness love to label every single thing as a mental illness. Asperger's is biological, hereditary and and neurological. All it is is that our brains are different, some are brilliant and some are the opposite. We are NOT mentally ill. That is my opinion. You may disagree. If you do, it doesn't really matter, does it? I feel very strongly about this so I must post it. If you love labels, you can be mentally ill if you want to be. Not me.