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kony wrote:

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> That's all a load of nonsense.  Asperger's is just another
> way of saying someone spent substantially more time focused
> on certain mental exercises /other/ than social interaction.

I doubt many readers here believe that.  Most of us knew very
early that we were good at science, math, or engineering.
It wasn't that we chose those things, we were already good
at them.

> What one does regularly, one becomes good at, while also
> building skills applicable to somewhat similar endeavors.
> Unfortunately if one shuns social interaction too much, it
> is going to be more difficult for them to "catch up" to some
> kind of average set of social skills, because as a person
> grows, matures, ages, they have a self-evolution in their
> personal identity and the way they interact socially will
> be changing and evolving.

> Also, you're more than a wee bit paranoid if the only two
> alternatives would be asperger's or  direct communication
> with others who would /supposedly/ think negatively about
> you. 

My understanding is that there is a continuum, not a
yes or no decision.  As with many genetic traits, a little
is good but a lot can be bad.

>  There certainly are people who just "fluff about" or
> chatter away, but the classification has no bearing on
> contrasts with asperger's labeled individuals, except of
> course that if they don't find social interactions pleasant,
> naturally they wouldn't be chattering away.

Most who post to comp.dsp (where I am posting this) are pretty
smart, but also good at chattering.  (If not, they wouldn't
be posting.)

>>THAT  needs a cure!!!  a Neurotypical brain, I think you'll find - is
>>the one that's FLAWED. Autistic brain is a Human brain made the way
>>GOD intended it to be.

That one I don't understand at all.

> In your eyes God intends for you to shun interactions with
> your own (human) race?  IMO, you need to be a little less
> subjective about this.  There is a happy medium.

As I understand it, some believe that there is a connection between
autism and Aspergers, and others don't.   Either way, some of
us are better at science and engineering than others, and some are
better at communicating than others.  The variety is the way God
intended it, that is, genetic diversity.

-- glen