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To: BuckeyeTexan

Wonderful story. Perhaps there is autism involved; people with this condition can be frighteningly intelligent. But it’s not for me to make a diagnosis from afar, of course.

He’s a real individual, an authentic person, who values personal choices more than conventional societal routines.


9 posted on 03/28/2010 2:03:26 AM PDT by Ayn And Milton
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To: Ayn And Milton

He seems to be functional enough — and antisocial enough — that he might have Asperger’s Syndrome and not full-blown autism.


12 posted on 03/28/2010 2:30:52 AM PDT by FredZarguna ("I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.")
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To: Ayn And Milton

Amazing fellow. Take the contrast between Zer0 and the genius. Both are celebs of a sort.
One is real one is false.


17 posted on 03/28/2010 2:40:46 AM PDT by ChiMark
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To: Ayn And Milton

Wisdom and character with virtue.


18 posted on 03/28/2010 2:40:48 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Ayn And Milton

It wouldn’t take conforming to conventional societal norms for him to make at least his mother’s life a little more bearable.


23 posted on 03/28/2010 2:54:39 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt)
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To: Ayn And Milton
Perhaps there is autism involved

That was my thought also.
31 posted on 03/28/2010 4:00:32 AM PDT by redheadtoo
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Reminds me of the movie “A Beautiful Mind”.


35 posted on 03/28/2010 5:24:25 AM PDT by baltoga
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To: Ayn And Milton

Amen, let the man live the life he chooses, he’s not hurting anyone.


38 posted on 03/28/2010 5:35:05 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Ayn And Milton
He is not autistic at all. He simply guards his soul from corruption --- perhaps in strangely straightforward and uncompromising ways, but that's all he does.

He was invited to teach at Berkeley (any other school in the world, from Princeton and Harvard all the way down) would be honored to have him on faculty. What did he do in Berkeley? He saved almost every penny of his salary. Later, people commented, and understood why, he was eating a lot of peanut butter sandwiches. He lived like a student and saved every penny. Later, after returning to Russia, he actually said that those savings will allow him financial independence if he continuous to live frugally. But he does not want any honors because they corrupt.

And he is right. You receive something from a university or an institute, how can you refuse to give a lecture? He will be mobbed to give invited plenary lectures at practically every conference happening in the world. How can you refuse the community that has honored you? In this sense, and most people are simply unaware of how scientific and academic worlds work, awards are NOT free.

He simply does not want to set on that path and continue his life as a thinker.

60 posted on 03/28/2010 8:02:15 PM PDT by TopQuark
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