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Not sure it it belongs here or on the Health section.

I was just reading on Adrian Lamo, Gary McKinnon, Kevin Mitnick, Kevin poulsen, etc and they seem to suffer from this condition. I find them very interesting individuals.

I think I can nominate some people here that might be suffering from this. Don't mean it in a bad way.
 
Fuma said:
Not sure it it belongs here or on the Health section.

I was just reading on Adrian Lamo, Gary McKinnon, Kevin Mitnick, Kevin poulsen, etc and they seem to suffer from this condition. I find them very interesting individuals.

I think I can nominate some people here that might be suffering from this. Don't mean it in a bad way.
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http://www.nativeremedies.com/ailment/aspergers-syndrome-asperger-disorder.html#question4
 
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Fuma said:
Do tell.
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Not much to tell, except I display quite a few of the symptoms/issues.
I spot patterns everywhere. To the extent that my work phone number was bugging me last year... until I realised that it was the same as the phone number I had in the UK in 1999-2004, but with the 2s and 4s transposed.
I battle to identify with people, I'm considered antisocial, difficult to get along with. Sometimes I just don't want company. I can fake it for a while but then I get frustrated and push people away.
When I get stressed or distressed I do the repetitive motion thing too.
 
I'm diagnosed as ADHD-PI and Aspergers. All these "disorders" are part of the Autism spectrum so there's no real hard rule on where one ends and another begins.

Sadly all superpowers must come with weaknesses and I like most Aspies I suffer from an utter lack of social skills and tact. Or maybe others suffer from it I'm yet to decide :-).

I don't think we're unemotional as such - we are just ruled by our overpowered intellect more completely than most. Generally in Autism one finds high IQ and low EQ. Some say we suppress our emotions because we don't understand it at all and I'm inclined to agree with that.

I'm married with kids so I guess I cope with my "uniqueness" pretty well. It helps to have an understanding wife that know's that sometimes I just want to be alone. I enjoy social events just not all the time - any kind of human interaction tires me out.

Sometimes my lack of people skills bother me (def more when I was younger) but I refuse to see it as a disorder. The world need people who think differently and are not affected by social norms as much to think up new stuff.

Wikipedia article on its pretty good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_Syndrome
 
I'm surprised nobody has brought up South Park's "Ass Burgers" yet.

Oh well, there. I did it. :p
 
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