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Before flying off the handle on a topic Rush is going to talk about tomorrow, it might be a good idea to read the article he's talking about before judging: Answer, but No Cure, for a Social Disorder That Isolates Many

I'll bet Rush is going to focus on paragraphs like this:

Carl Pietruszka, 52, said that being found to have Asperger's had been a blow to a long-held fantasy. "It's been my hope for years and years that if I keep working at it, I'll find a strategy that will fix things, that if I practice enough, it'll be O.K.," Mr. Pietruszka said. "Now I know I'm working with Asperger's, which is going to be an ongoing thing. It'll get better, but it's not going to be O.K. That has me seriously bummed out."

That paragraph would make Rush mad!

Here, Mr. Pietruzska was working on his problem -- UNTIL he "learned" from the "experts" that his problem was "incurable." The guy promptly got discouraged and has settled into victim mentality.

If that's what's bugging Rush about this article, then I'm with him.

I saw nothing of victim there. His illness is incurable given what we know and he said it would get better. Sure he is bummed, wouldn't anyone be. He didn't say he was a victim, he said the truth. He is a victim in our eyes but he isn't asking for that status. If there is such a status. And who is Rush, or you, to decide how he should express himself and how he should feel?