On Aug 3, 4:07?pm, johannes
wrote:
The little lost angel wrote:



On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:35:37 -0700, Tim May
wrote:

I don't know about your friend, but most "Asperger'sSyndrome"
diagnoses are self-diagnoses. The number of proclaimed AS cases has
gone up by a factor of 20 since 1980.

In his case, he went through quite a lot of examinations before the
diagnosis was made so I doubt it was self diagnosis. Frankly most of
us are clinically insane one way or another, if not many ways, so I
don't really care if my friends has AS or BS, there's no excuse for
being mean or stupid as a result of being too lazy to think =P

SinceAsperger'sis is described as a mild form of Autism, it leaves
a lot of doors open for diagnosis. In fact any circumscribed area of
interest: cars, computers, trains, meteorology and astrononi...etc.
could be a symptom ofAsperger'shttp://www.aspergers.com/aspclin.htm
Any nerd characteristics is certainly very suspect. Anyone who dives
into one particular subject. Doing math is certainly a health hazard.

I sometimes wonder if all this really comes from some dissatisfaction
by others who would like to get closer to the sufferer, but doesn't
quite catch their imagination. Hence it's as much other people's
problem as the sufferers. There should be anAsperger'scontact
deficiencysyndrome...

The best way for you to keep people from knowing for a fact that
you're stupid is if you didn't say another word for the rest of your
life!