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