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Re: CHAT: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 22:23
In a message dated 2000/06/21 07:09:57 PM, Romilly wrote:

>"Scholars have retroactively applied the Asperger's label >to oddball intellectuals ranging from Glenn Gould to Vladimir Nabokov." >Who needs them, anyway? ] OR: "Asperger's kids often memorize everything >there is to know about the oddest things: deep-fat friers, telephone cable >insulating companies, exotic species of cicadas." Deep-fat friers, that IS >weird; perhaps we could substitute "languages both real and artificial"? >
EEK! that sounds like what I "suffer."
>Apparently the good people in pharmacology are looking for a remedy. Just >what this poor world needs, a pill to suppress intelligence. >
Good thing I am no longer a kiddie (but I am still one at heart...) :)
>Good grief. Read it and weep. I say, poppycock! >
Yepyep. zHANgie