[Publius]

What made you think I was declaring him a candidate for Asperger's Syndrome? I was merely expanding your limited view of the use of hemp in colonial times. Nothing more.

Don't be so defensive.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, I didn’t think that.

It is Marcella who keeps defending her position that her great list of famous people are really autistic. Her reasoning is that George Washington grew marijuana. You explained it perfectly and far better than I. I just knew that they all grew hemp, but you put it into context.

I was merely arguing that it is dangerous to impose 21st century rules on 18th century customs and to draw conclusions from that.

In Marcella’s defense (limited) some of the people on her list have long been classified as “possible” autistics (Einstein, Gates, etc.). But others don’t deserve that description at all, if only because of their highly developed social skills.