Nerdiness as Disease

From a post on Chaos Theory:

"One of the slightly frightening things about the explosion of Asperger's diagnoses is that because Asperger's syndrome refers to a hard-wired neurological state, kids are essentially being told that they are hard-wired to be nerds. It's a really fraught diagnosis. I wonder if there are kids who would've benefited from just being able to think of themselves as nerdy, and then gone on to become something else, instead of being told when they're young, 'You have Asperger's syndrome, you're always going to be a socially awkward systemic thinker.'"

I'm so glad that I was never diagnosed as autistic, when I was a kid (or, possibly, hyperlexic). Somehow, I think it would have just made things more difficult for me.