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Re: Current documentation outline

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Monday, September 11, 2000, 4:22
> > That statement could be taken - and I'm worried that maybe it's > > /meant/ to be taken - as sarcasm targetted at the notion that I was > > posting to show how things "ought to be done". It's more to do with > > pride in a creative effort coupled with a fascination for structure > > that - I admit it - has *more* than a little to do with asperger's > > syndrome and all that. > > Oh it wasn't sarcasm!! Did it sound like it was, I'm sorry... (And > that wasn't sarcastic either.)
The _wording_ didn't sound sarcastic, but the raw semantic meaning did. Why else would someone claim an intention to study my outline and use it as a model - a claim that makes no sense at all taken literally? Hence I received mixed messages.
> Now where did I hear about Asperger's... maybe it was me.
Remembering the thread in which we talked about all these things (asperger's, BPD, mental illness in general): Not long ago my favourite science show, Quantum, ran a story on the discoveries and research of Jack Pettigew concerning BPD and brain switching. The archive of the story is at <http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/s161005.htm> I was fascinated by this, and emailed Jack with a bunch of questions. I mentioned that I have asperger's. To this he replied, } I have a hunch that Aspergers have slow switches...only a couple of } data points so far, one from your city. For more technical info, see <http://www.uq.edu.au/nuq/jack/jack.html> -- web. | Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of sanity netyp.com/ | within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind. member/ | After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall dragon | flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.