What Aspergers Looks Like

[Monty]

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[Nikolai]

This is just sad and is probably how some phora members act in real life.

[Gruppenführer Glitter]

Kevin DeBurgh in 30 years except without the friendly demeanor.

[Ken]

This is just sad and is probably how a great many internetz addicts act in real life.

Agreed and slightly adjusted.:D

[elbwgreez]

I read about this guy from the Tiffany doc I Think We're Alone Now.

http://outlawvern.com/2010/08/31/i-think-were-alone-now/#more-7913

The distinguishing features of Aspergers seems to be a lack of social rhythm and an inability to read others' emotions. At the same time, I wonder if people afflicted with this problem do well amongst each other.

The "nerd" from American Spendor is very similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC19ODGX_bk

http://vodpod.com/watch/4055443-nerds-eye-view-king-nerd

[Dreadnought]

I literally never heard of this except on the internet. Is it mainly an American phenomenon or what?

[Errigal]

I literally never heard of this except on the internet. Is it mainly an American phenomenon or what?

I think so. I can't remember hearing about it more than once outside the internet.

[sugartits]

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What Is Stimming?

Stimming is repetitive stereotypic behavior commonly found in autism, but also found in other developmental disabilities.

This behavior may involve any or all of the senses in various degrees in different individuals. Several examples are listed below.

* Visual – staring at lights, blinking, gazing at fingers, lining up objects

* Auditory – tapping fingers, snapping fingers, grunting, humming

* Smell – smelling objects, sniffing people

* Taste – licking objects, placing objects in mouth

* Tactile – scratching, clapping, feeling objects nail biting, hair twisting, toe-walking

* Vestibular – rocking, spinning, jumping, pacing

* Proprioception – teeth grinding, pacing, jumping


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[Hadding]

I literally never heard of this except on the internet. Is it mainly an American phenomenon or what?
I am not sure which phenomenon you mean, celebrity stalking or Asperger's.

He certainly seems harmless compared to some celebrity stalkers, like the woman who broke into David Letterman's house.

Asperger's syndrome was first described by Hans Asperger in the Third Reich in 1944.

[il ragno]

I don't mean to be cruel, but this just doesn't seem like a real disease to me.

[Monty]

I don't mean to be cruel, but this just doesn't seem like a real disease to me.

Supposedly there's a physical test:
http://www.pointparkglobe.com/mobile/features/new-u-k-study-detects-autism-at-young-age-with-brain-scans-1.1571679

[Baron_Corvo]

I don't mean to be cruel, but this just doesn't seem like a real disease to me.

True. It isn't a disease, any more than, say, blindness or deafness is a disease (though a lot of Aspies would claim even that is wrong and there's nothing wrong with them at all, they're just "different").

A lot of people in the scientific, computing (Silicon Valley is reputedly far above the national average as regards the proportion of Aspies who live and work there) and mathematical worlds have Asperger's. It's very frequently found in people who need to be able to focus long and hard on a problem without distraction, which people with Asperger's can often do better than *NTs (normal people) can.

* Short for "Neurologically Typical."

[Eisenhans]

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[Macrobius]

I don't mean to be cruel, but this just doesn't seem like a real disease to me.

It is mostly a bureaucratic, public works phenomenon. Children so labelled are eligible for certain kinds of state funding and that means a gravy train for school psychologists and so forth. It's the new ADD/ADHD. It won't take long for word to spread among the (mostly women) functionaries who will tell each other, by telegraphy, 'this is what you put on the form to get money now'. This is already out in the open in school districts. Look for 10-15% of all children to be so 'diagnosed' and drugged or therapied at state expense, with plenty of public workers paid to supervise and aid them, while collecting salaries and pensions of course -- for a while anyway, but that's a side issue. And the rest of the world will say WTF. It would be tragedy, not farce, if there is a real disease with this name. But the two are not mutually exclusive in ZOG. It's no longer just a disease -- it's a checkbox.

[Bronze Age Pervert]

It is mostly a bureaucratic, public works phenomenon. Children so labelled are eligible for certain kinds of state funding and that means a gravy train for school psychologists and so forth. It's the new ADD/ADHD. It won't take long for word to spread among the (mostly women) functionaries who will tell each other, by telegraphy, 'this is what you put on the form to get money now'. This is already out in the open in school districts. Look for 10-15% of all children to be so 'diagnosed' and drugged or therapied at state expense, with plenty of public workers paid to supervise and aid them, while collecting salaries and pensions of course -- for a while anyway, but that's a side issue. And the rest of the world will say WTF. It would be tragedy, not farce, if there is a real disease with this name. But the two are not mutually exclusive in ZOG. It's no longer just a disease -- it's a checkbox.

This is part of why it should be illegal for anyone with a psychology degree to go anywhere near schools...they should be classified much like "sex offenders," etc.

[Bismarck]

Jeff Turner seems cool to me, people with mild psychological disorders just need to learn to act like comedians, like Jimmy Savile:

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[Saif al-Islam]

These people would benefit enough from some classes on social conduct, body language, and behavior. Of course, that does not help those of us who love to probe others thoughts and feelings. There is no joy like stirring the pot among a group of pc college kids or work colleagues.

[Bismarck]

These people would benefit enough from some classes on social conduct, body language, and behavior.

All psycho-analytic observation is quite abstract, so in attempting to convey how to respond to certain body language and social conduct it would be difficult, a better solution would be to provide a role model like Jimmy Savile:

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Of course, that does not help those of us who love to probe others thoughts and feelings. There is no joy like stirring the pot among a group of pc college kids or work colleagues.

I think a person with aspergers syndrome could still identify when they were being controversial?

[Omniel]

Jeff Turner seems cool to me, people with mild psychological disorders just need to learn to act like comedians, like Jimmy Savile:
What does Aspergers have to do with a random Jimmy Saville video? Save that crap for the Lounge.

[Bismarck]

What does Aspergers have to do with a random Jimmy Saville video? Save that crap for the Lounge.

You clearly read that i suggested Jimmy Savile as a role model, meaning that nobody will question a man kicking back smoking a cigar, also you have to take into account what people with Aspergers syndrome could learn from painstakingly studying Jimmy's reaction to body language and his pyschological analysis of his interveiwers, you philistine.:deadhorse:

[Monty]

I read about this guy from the Tiffany doc I Think We're Alone Now.

I saw the movie. This guy is way more demented than your usual Internet nerd. He has zero clue about human relations. He's built some psychic energy device so he send signals to his favorite 80s pop diva. He's also obsessed with Christian Zionist conspiracy theory about satanists, the Antichrist and whatnot.

At one point in the movie he's showing off Tiffany's Playboy issue.... to people... at... church.

Yeah, if this is Asperger's, it is far more pathological than your usual obsessed Internet troll. The troll knows he is being disruptive, The Aspie is just expressing himself without knowing whether or not what he does is disruptive.

[Anarch]

I think a person with aspergers syndrome could still identify when they were being controversial?

No. A person with Aspergers would simply have difficulty understanding how others would find what they say as offensive. The controversial would simply seem ridiculous.

[Larrikin]

No. A person with Aspergers would simply have difficulty understanding how others would find what they say as offensive. The controversial would simply seem ridiculous.
While Asperger Syndrom surely exist as an autistic disorder many internet personalities simply use it a "rational" excuse for not listening to any argument and generally behaving like asocial jackasses and at the same time promote a myth of their "misunderstood genius".

Asperger patients are usually far from being a genius, but restricted in their attention to very specific details without understanding the broader context. For example they might be able to name all US presidents with very in-depth biografic data without having much of a clue about the function of any of those presidents in his historical period.