Re: To the mass of dorky kids on the net claiming they all have Asperger's Syndrome:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:58:58 -0700 (PDT), Felicity
<felicity4711@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Apr 10, 11:50 am, Oscar C. Denton wrote:
>
>> You're not "Rain Man". You're not a genius in any
>> way. Nor are you a tragic figure. Your real affliction is an inflated
>> ego. Stop trying to make yourselves exceptional by pretending to
>> have an esoteric disease.
>
>That's not what Asperger's is. Nobody with Asperger's is claiming to
>be a genius savant. Asperger's just means you don't instinctively grok
>social protocols the way the rest of humanity does subconsciously. It
>means you don't read nonverbal communication in the way that most
>people do without being able to explain how. It means you tend to
>overfocus on a handful of interests and relate everything back to
>those interests, thereby being a frustrating person with whom to
>converse. It means if someone wants something from you, they have to
>actually say what it is instead of dancing around it and assuming
>you'll guess.


Sounds like the character Zack Addy, on Bones.