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Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, June 22, 2000, 19:31
>> They interact with the world in ways that are a little >> eccentric but which avoid those areas they find troublesome. >> Most of them have relatively few friends in total but are >> very sincere about the friendships they have. > >This is me all over, and indeed I suspect it characterizes >a lot of us here on Conlang.>
That was my immediate thought too.
>OTOH I never had any of the OCD stuff.>
Nor I. Clearly, there is a continuum of difficulties, where the extremes may require some kind of intervention-- but whether Modern Chemistry is the answer remains very doubtful to me. I am enough of a Freudian still to believe that one is probably better off learning to live with/ capitalize on one's "differentness" than to try to eliminate it.