Make credence recognised that on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:29:17 +0200,
Mxsmanic has scripted:
>Jack Campin - bogus address writes:
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>> Asperger's is correlated with lower than average intelligence, and
>> with every other symptom of congenital brain damage there is. The
>> correlation is weak enough that a lot of people with are quite
>> bright ...
>
>These statements conflict.
Where?
>> ... and since they're the ones that get the media attention, a
>> stereotype has developed of the typical Aspie as being an idiot
>> savant. It is much more common for them just to be idiots. Newton
>> probably had it, but for every Newton there are thousands of Aspies
>> whose lifetime achievement is a collection of precisely dated Spam
>> tin labels.
>
>You're confusing Asperger's syndrome with true autism. Many of the best minds
>in high-technology fields show "symptoms" of Asperger's "disease."
No, they are merely misdiagnosed.
>> It's the same condition. Some people, like a good friend of mine
>> who is a weirdly obsessive musician, know they've got it, manage
>> to convert it into entertaining eccentricity and become legendary
>> in their chosen area of activity. Adults who refuse to accept the
>> implications just become offensive, tedious bores and end up whining
>> in the gutter.
>
>Perhaps those who refuse to accept your label find those who consider them
>diseased to be offensive and tediously boring as well. Who's right?
As you are completely alone, one can only assume it is you that is
offensive and tediously boring,
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