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Albert Einstein 'found genius through autism'
Telegraph ^
| 21 Feb 2008
| Nic Fleming
Posted on 02/22/2008 10:44:32 AM PST by BGHater
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To: darkangel82; Arthur McGowan
You have some preconceived notions about this that are dead wrong. The article is saying that autism is not always "bad" ~ that it is, in fact, "good".
Having seen Britney Spears quick slide down the pole I'm wondering if early expression of some types of autism lead invariably to bipolar disorder, or even schizophrenia.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:49:53 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: BGHater
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posted on
02/22/2008 7:18:12 PM PST
by
TChad
To: carolinablonde
And have you ever noticed how many programmers, myself included, have dyslexia to some degree? I swear sometimes it helps. And maybe that translates into being able to look at a problem from a different angle than others do.No, but I could understand how that may work better. My little bit of time trying to write nested do loops in college classes made me wish that my brain worked a whole lot differently than it does.
I think this article makes a lot of interesting points and is probably on to something. Maybe brains that function differently than what's "normal" should not be medicated into oblivion.
I agree 100%. We can't all be round pegs, fitting nicely in society's round holes.
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posted on
02/23/2008 12:06:41 PM PST
by
Ghengis
(Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
To: BGHater
My own brother said I showed some signs growing up that might now be considered autistic. I’d come home from school when I was nine or ten and just lay on the sofa thinking up stories in my head for hours at a time. I didn’t write them down (except for a few); I just stared into space and lived them.
Thank goodness they didn’t drug kids back then. My careers in information science and my avocation of playwrighting are both going pretty well. I’m no genius, but I think some of my unusual (”autistic?”) tendencies as a child helped me with my creative outlets as an adult.
To: RuyDiaz
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a hoax, a fiction. All they mean is that some people enjoy solitude and doing mechanical tasks. I don't think that accurately describes this lady. There's obviously something very unusually different about her.
This book by her is very interesting.
To: BGHater
Note all were foreign educated. It's a good thing these geniuses were never subjected to today's American public school system.
Their high energy curiosity and "disruptive" behavior would have been treated with Ritalin, with a consequent loss to civilization of their contributions.
You can't have equality, liberal-style, without mediocrity. I wonder how many geniuses we have robbed of their potential. Our bad.
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posted on
02/23/2008 12:40:13 PM PST
by
OESY
To: wideminded
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posted on
02/23/2008 12:42:41 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: Our man in washington
People wonder why I have never done drugs. I tell them I don’t need to do drugs, with my brain I can barely keep the wild horse under control as it is!
I guess I’m somewhat autistic according to this article, I have a number of those characteristics to varying degrees though they’ve diminished some with age.
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02/23/2008 5:31:11 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Don't think I can vote for you John, I'm feelin' like a maverick.)
To: Ghengis
The combination of high intelligence plus the ability to super-focus on a problem for extended periods of time plus the stubbornness to keep working on something in the face of disparagement = genius
To: wideminded
it is an interesting book and interesting lady.
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02/23/2008 5:55:06 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
(The Ron Paul - Let Freedom Ping list - freepmail me to be on it.)
To: BGHater
Many leading figures in the fields of science, politics and the arts have achieved success because they had autism Retards with poopy pants bump!
To: Bratch
What a disruption to something that was clean and not political you are a ...
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posted on
02/23/2008 6:05:54 PM PST
by
restornu
To: Conservativegreatgrandma; Arthur McGowan
Oh so now the stima of learning disabitiy seems ok now since it has some good company!
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posted on
02/23/2008 6:09:29 PM PST
by
restornu
To: aposiopetic
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posted on
02/23/2008 6:12:52 PM PST
by
restornu
To: humblegunner
You are not so humble are you did you stop to think of parents on FR who had children that have Autism and you make retard jokes!
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02/23/2008 6:17:55 PM PST
by
restornu
To: raybbr
offend the “stupid”??
How much do you know about Asperger’s?
Look up “Brain Man” - that would be a good introduction.
To: BGHater
Of course, Prof Fitzgerald could be WRONG!!... one or many levels.. He seems to have bitten off a big chunk of the UN provable..
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02/23/2008 6:25:16 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
To: BGHater
I have noticed several true geniuses have said what they thought it was in basically the same way. I can't recall the exact words but Einstein once said his success was not so much his intelligence as his ability to devote intense concentration and energy to a problem.
Edison described it as "one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration". John Moses Browning called it "a drop of brains in a barrel of sweat".
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posted on
02/23/2008 6:34:48 PM PST
by
yarddog
(`)
To: BGHater
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posted on
02/23/2008 7:43:01 PM PST
by
MadelineZapeezda
(Five years later, Mr Bush is saddling Europe with a new rogue state.)
To: restornu
did you stop to think of parents on FR who had children that have Autism No.
Why should I?
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