Interesting that you brought that up. It wasn’t in the for-front of my mind when I posted that, but it does drive my principles. My nephew has Aperger’s Syndrome. He is doing great. Several of us in this goofy family have ADHD (Myself included and there are a few Bi-polars. I am Dyslexic. All of us have reached rather acceptable or pretty darn good levels of achievement in the important areas of our lives, and work around the hard parts.

As a family, we don’t focus on what society or the pot-holes in our general make up are, we focus on what we CAN do when we get around them.

It works for us.

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Thanks for your thoughts! For the most part, in life, I tend to eschew labels. My middle daughter, for example, has Asperger’s Syndrome. We went through half a dozen other diagnoses before settling on that one. Through the whole process, the challenge was to focus on her needs rather than the label. I know that’s not what you were getting at there, but it’s related in a tangential, Bobish sort of way. Trust me.

And James, Dear James, I hope by now you know I think of you fondly,so don’t take this the wrong way, but I will never limit what I am or will be based on any one else’s short-sighted imaginations. If they can’t take writers seriously then heck on them. They can look at the dust as I am walking away.

@ James – You’ve got a point about writing being taken seriously. However, if “writer” isn’t taken seriously by average folk, then “blogger” or “Internet writer” is, for now, a step down from there even.

I can live with your term of web Writer. For my purposes I see “web” as limited to a single technology (albeit the dominant one) and avoid it. “Internet” is broader. Just a matter of preference, though.

@ Karen – WOO HOO indeed. I think the lines will continue to blur. We’re really just a couple of decades into this whole Internet thing, though, so who really knows?

For that reason, I always clearly define what I do. I’m a web content writer – not just a writer. At the very least, I stir up interest in what a web content writer is. Most people are clueless. I also shake off the archaic perception of writers by using “web”, which puts me in the innovative technology class of workers.

But essentially, your points are right. For god’s sake, stand up and be proud of what you do.