Anybody apart from me here affected by it in some way, have it yourself or a member of your family affected by it...Or are you just interested in the subject?
Well, here you can become more aware of this mental illness if you want to, and if you don't want to, then don't read the topic.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder is a term to describe the many autism related mental illness' people suffer from, there's actually quite a lot, I suffer from one of the main three, which is Pervasive Development Disorder, it affects me in lots of ways, most of them I've been taught to control and cover up, but some of them I still have problems with, like getting confused and angry(probably caused by, but tied in with it), not being able to interact with people well, like social things, and not being able to make eye contact and taking things how they're said exactly. I probably don't even know some of the things I do. But those are basically the traits of autistic people you'd find around you usually in everyday life.
Even for people who aren't serverely autistic, you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to fit in with normal life with normal people, but it's helped by people who make a few small changes that barely affect them to accomedate for people like me, usually this is the case, but some people think they don't have to help anyone, and wreck my life, and probably everyone else I know who's autistic.
It's not all bad though really, I enjoy who I am and enjoy it with people who accept me for what I'm like, it's only a disability when people make fun of it and try to avoid helping me...
Anyway, anyone else up for saying anything...Probably no one, but you never know...Just wondered if anyone else was suffering from it...