Abz "I've got Aspergers" really?
 

My father has Aspergers and although I'm certain there are many degrees of it Abz must have .00003 of a degree of it. Does anyone else have experience of this condition?

My best mate at school had mild aspergers. She was just a bit..strange :/

Like, she would randomly sit in puddles when we were out if she fancied it, and once jumped off durham bridge to 'swim with the ducks'

She wasn't too good in social situations though, she would be extremely quiet in groups, but was fine one to one, or in a group of people she knew well.

I didn't know he had aspergers. Poor guy. :(

Finding social situations difficult is the obvious one , I can't believe he would want fame or even be in a band if he had this condition.Also he would say exactly what he thought Aspergers sufferers have no filter as far as thoughts and saying it is concerned, so I am sceptical tbh.
Maybe if he sits in a puddle I might be convinced!

I know someone with Asperger's and I remember a while back when he was completely withdrawn from social situations and never seemed to be able to detect sarcasm/banter from being genuine...

He's still a bit like that but has gradually learned to deal with it over the years.

Waiting for the generic *he's playing the Aspergers card for votes*.

He does seem to struggle a bit in there.At least now we know why.

Has he ever mentioned this before?

It's a funny old show to go on if he has that condition.

I have Aspergers syndrome. I really do; I was diagnosed in '09.

It wont do him any harm in him trying to win tho...GBP love a sob story...as we found out again on Monday.

No idea, but it explains a lot. Remember he went straight to the tree house on the fist night?:suspect:

OMG yes this is a main one

When we were last year at junior school..our teacher was saying something, and said to my mate 'oh the penny has dropped'

And she started looking on the floor for a penny...

No concept of sarcasm or anything. She used to get quite upset if we were sarcastic to each other (never did it to her as she took it as insults)

Get this when I was 14 my Father told me I was never going to beautiful so best I make the most of my personality and study hard at school.!

Hey Josiah great it has been diagnosed , thank you for sharing.

My mother, brother and I have thought for some time my dad might have been undiagnosed aspergers.


[eta] I phrased that badly. We thought for a time that he may have been. Ended up thinking maybe not.

Yeah, and their understanding can be quite literal as well. I remember a while back our teacher told us to not rush through our work and he took it very literally, barely doing anything within the 45 minutes. :/

I was pretty irritated when he said "I've got a condition called aspergers"

FFS - it's not a "condition". I have 2 sons, a husband, father, brother and sister with aspergers.....

Maybe I just don't like him, but the way he said it wound me up

I have heard of it but I don't know anything about it.

I know a few people with Aspergers, and it sort of makes sense that he has it.

Genuine question, and please forgive my ignorance on this, but what would be a more acceptable description?

I have Aspergers I don't like social situations and hate physical contact and don't make eye contact.

I wonder if i have it because i'm like that as well. :shocked:

Just read a post about a mum telling her son to travel light so he took an empty suitcase.

I looked on the internet for the use of the word 'condition', and it does seem to apply to Aspergers. Condition is just a word that means state of health. You can use it for almost any health situation. I am in fairly good condition.

I love it when the TiBB Medical Professionals make threads.

It would explain why he spent 90% of his famous days off his t**s on his drugs. It was probably the only way he felt comfortable in that world.

Abz was forced to live that very public life but shared it with 4 other guys so that probably gave him the confidence of support in social situations and he was pissed most of the time, it was just a worldwind.

He now lives on a secluded farm and doesn't socialise that often hes only doing BB to get a house.

Just because you know one person with the illness you shouldn't really imply others are faking it (which I think you may be trying to do here).

5ive star Abz has revealed that his withdrawn behaviour since entering the Celebrity Big Brother house is the result of Asperger's Syndrome.


The singer was in the Diary Room when he made the admission while referring to model Sophie Anderton’s outspoken behaviour the previous night.


He said: ‘The drink’s kinda messing with people, I don’t really go out and party anymore. Sophie was telling me that I need to come out of my shell and really shine, it’s good advice, I can’t knock that.


‘But what people don’t know about me is I‘ve got this condition; it’s a kind of autism called Asbergers.’


Five star Abz admits he has Asperger Syndrome during a chat with Big Brother in the Diary Room
Opening up: 5ive star Abz admits he has Asperger Syndrome during a chat with Big Brother in the Diary Room


He added: ‘It’s a personal thing but it makes it difficult for me in certain scenarios when people want the sparkly bright Abz all the time.


‘I only found out a couple of years ago so it’s all new to me but I’m trying to make the best of it.’


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My son was diagnosed Asperger's Syndrome many years ago. Asperger's people can display many signs of ritualistic behaviour and obsessions, are very much literal thinkers, and often misunderstand unspoken signals. Speaking from personal experience, my son is quite the introvert, and there's no way he'd want attention drawn to himself. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I certainly think it's highly unusual that someone with Asperger's would put themselves in such a situation whereby thousands of people are watching them on TV, not to mention the fact that they have to share a house with a bunch of strangers.

- This is the thing- there are exceptions. One example, and a famous one, is Dan Aykroyd. Yes, he of Saturday Night Live on TV and many movies.

I sometimes think that those diagnosed with OCD have Asperger's Syndrome, I was told years ago that if the autistic spectrum was a clock my son was ten past one....
After being told he was ADHD and DCD I thought feck the lot of you! He is just jake! :D

This place is an education in itself sometimes.

Well abz certainly doesn't detect sarcasm. There was a time he was talking to Mario and Mario was referring to how stressful this house was gonna be. Then Mario said "mate can you teach me how to meditate" in a sarcastic way and abz replied with "im no guru mate" Mario replied "no i ment because its gonna get real tough in here" then a silence broke out for the next 1 min before Danielle came.

I believe him tbfh.

my gf son has aspergers yet he is able to front his own band and play a lead role in his school play..

Well exactly I guess there will be those with mild social anxiety and pragmatic difficulties, and those whose idiosyncrasies are more pronounced.

Granted, there are going to be exceptions, but going on national tv in front of over a million people - well, that's a bit different from being in a band and school play, I'd say.

there was a guy who won bb who had some sort of problem involving speech which mysteriously disappeared after he won...

Do tell me more Dr. Cadillac.

Who are you talking about? Pete?

yes, what a fake...the whole 'act' was planned including his roll down the stairs on the final night.