Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

At 09:32 23.6.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> > And what shall we say about a guy like William Blake?  Contemporary wit had
> > it that the only reason he didn't get locked up in the asylum was that he
> > lived next door to it anyways.  ("There is a pearl in Lambeth which Satan
> > cannot find")
>
>Wit, yes; truth, no.  Blake was as sane as anyone; he was a bit eccentric
>in his thinking, and tended to prefer his own views to other people's,
>but there is no evidence that he had anything amounting to either a
>thought or a mood disorder.
Exactly my point: he was non-conformant to contemporary views on normality,
and so branded as "mad" <sliding scale according to viewers' bias>
"possessed", but there was nothing wrong with him medically.  Good for him
the doctors weren't puritan or bourgeois!



/BP

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