Re: Apergers and Genius

From: Brett Paatsch (paatschb@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 21:07:54 MDT

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    Spike writes:
    > Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
    > > The price of genius
    >
    > > Isaac Newton ... was taciturn, had few friends...
    > > ...Albert Einstein... was generally acknowledged to
    > > be a difficult person... both men... may
    > > have shown signs of Asperger syndrome, a form of autism...
    >
    > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993676
    >
    > You know what is going to happen now: a bunch of us
    > will be faking Aspergers in order to make people think
    > we are geniuses. Whenever someone at an extroschmooze
    > starts acting like a turd, we will conclude that it is
    > all an act. We will end up defending our actions:
    > "Honest, you guys, Im a REAL asshole!"

    Careful there Spike. You may find you've coined a
    new Psych acronym with "REAL asshole". There a species
    of depression called SAD. Seasonally Affective Disorder
    from memory.

    Brett



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