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We went through this here two days ago on this thread..... and it got nasty... and I still say. Concerned losers, If it’s not your kid -MYOB!!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3496545/posts?page=33#33

After a freeper posted a YouTube at post #44 and I hit the abuse button and an all out war ensued between myself and two particular posters who think it’s wonderful to speculate and diagnose other people’s kids and proclaim their findings to the world.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3496545/posts?page=98#98

I know people who interact with the Trump family in Palm Beach. For six years, no one has ever mentioned this. And if someone’s child was actually in that spectrum or schizophrenic or with some personality disorder, let’s say it’s Chelsea Clinton’s kid, whom does it benefit to speculate and spread such a rumor. Why label and stigmatize that kid? This is all leftist garbage that’s promoted by those who hawk celebrities to bored morons feeding off their lives.

But, there may be more to this story. With DJT’s statements regarding vaccines & autism, some expect DJT would increase funding for autism issues and they’d be very pleased for his child or a grandchild to be autistic and become their new poster-child. However, the only tie between DJT and autism is a 2010 Trump Foundation donation of 10K to an anti-vaccine charity run by television host Jenny McCarthy. That’s it.

This is obviously a political hornet's nest that I walked into, and I am guessing that the problem is the creation of some sort of politically protected industry diagnosing kids with "mild" forms of autism so they can get "treatment," but meanwhile arguing that these kids will become fully functioning adults.

What is going on here? Like I said, most people who are really good (I mean PhD mathematics material) or similar in the physical sciences display some form of social "inadquacy." Scientists even joke about it, and the more people try to put them on the autism spectrum the harder they laugh about it - the really good one's anyway. Math, Physics, hard chemistry, computer science require the ability to obsess about a problem single-mindedly for weeks or months or years at a time. Noble Prize winners obsess about their problem for a decade or so. Society can try to teach them to bathe and wash their clothes, but obsession is what makes them good at what they do.

The U.S. used to welcome these folks. They built the atomic bomb and created world-leading and world-changing technical advances. You think Robert Oppenheimer or Shockley or that ilk did not have socialization problems?

But now we have to put such people on a disorder scale and get them treatment.

And none of this is intended to disparage parents who have children with real development issues or the kids themselves. We should help them.

I am wondering if this isn't all part of this "Diversity" thing we have all been sold on, which seems to degenerate into a nihilistic mantra that we are all the same and are all interchangeable. Well we aren't. We have unique skills, capabilities and temperaments and thus are each more suited for one specialization or another. That is a good thing, the economists tell us, because economic prosperity multiples enormously with specialization.