'Asperger's Syndrome & Tolkien's Works'

[Finwe]

*applauds*


I don't know why society has this penchant for labeling all the non-conformists with some sort of mental disease or syndrome. Just because I am a teenager who makes good grades, works reasonably well to please her parents, has a well-rounded resume of extracurricular clubs, and does dance and archery does not mean that I am a repressed, goody-two-shoes conformist. It is another way that society likes to judge those who are "different." And that description of me that society somehow gets is also vastly mistaken. Society and my family label me as a black sheep who shouldn't be socialized with because I drink and smoke socially and would fail a Medieval "bride-worthy" test with flying colors (in other words, I'm not exactly an innocent when it comes to matters of reproduction). I haven't done anything to warrant the title of "black sheep." I realize that I've made mistakes and I have done what is reasonably in my power to correct them. Yet society still judges me from being different than the "accepted norm."

It is very unfair to Bilbo, Frodo, and the old Professor to label them with a syndrome that they never had. It is just another way of judging them based on society's skewed standards. It just isn't right.