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[sinkspur]

Here's the article Rush was reading.

[cyborg]

Heh... is this the same Slimes piece that another freeper is in a tizzy about? has to be.

[neverdem]

The story was mentioned by Rush today.

[68skylark]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126355/posts

[Pikamax]

If this is the story Rush was talking about, no wonder he made fun of it, it is begging to be made fun of. It reads less like a serious article on a subject and more than a coming out pity party and people making excuses for themselves.

[js1138]

Big article in "Wired" magazine about a year ago.

http://earthops.org/aspergers.html

[Tax-chick]

How interesting. I'm inclined to lump this kind of thing under, "Duh, people are different!" But I suppose it's helpful for some people to have a name put the particular way they are different from others. Whatever works.

[Shane]

Ah yes, another syndrome. Just one more excuse in the "I'm not responsible" file!

[Bikers4Bush]

Bump for later. This sounds like a childhood friend of mine to a tee.

[Dialup Llama]

>"She'll say something about how terrible her clothes look," Mr. Jorgensen explains. "I'll say, `Yes, honey, those are terrible-looking clothes,' when really she's wanting some affirmation that her clothes don't look terrible."

So the cure for this problem is to watch a season of Queer Eye and Dating Story?

[vpintheak]

There is a lack of tolerance for "wierd" kids? You wouldn't know it by what you see in today's society.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Bill Gates and possibly Einstein had Asperger's. It's on the very, very mild end of the autism spectrum. My son, however, is on the other end. He has severe limitations and will probably never speak, and will always live with my wife and me. I wouldn't wish either condition on anyone's child, but Aspies are usually able to function in society.

[woofie]

AL Gore and Kerry both suffer from this...dont laugh

[Teacher317]

(also posted on the Rush thread)

I had one student whose parents and therapist were adamant about labelling with Asperger. He was an unmotivated C student, and didn't seem "different" at all. He was moderately unresponsive to social situations (not laughing when the class laughed, etc). That was about it. He had friends, and liked to laugh and talk with them privately.

Why that called for an entire battery of tests, specialists, and scholastic perks (tesing in separate room with a "helper", more time for tests, more time for homework, two periods per day with specialists, etc) was self-evident... the school got more money, the specialists justified their own existence (while the student body grew by over 200 over 5 years, we got only 1 new teacher position added... and 6 new specialists), and the mother (whom I would've had tested for Munchausen by Proxy, personally) had her hysteria assuaged (temporarily).

The child's grades did not imporove, he said he didn't want to be "different" and put in special classes, and the staff got more paperwork. *sigh*

[PurVirgo]

fascinating article...

Like the "awkward genius syndrome" (my name for it)

[BunnySlippers]

Hmmm ...

[syriacus]

Wonderful article. Thanks for posting it.

[Renegade]

The DISEASE of being a liberal which has infected many of my co-workers ,has isolated them from me ..

[Robert Teesdale]

Fascinating article. I did some quick reading online, and it makes quite a bit of sense. Having worked in the IT industry for many years, it's quite easy to see how much of this sort of behavior, so common there, may actually have a genetic/biological underpinning.