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Do You Know Someone With Asperger’s Or Autism?
The Journey: Great Quotes for Aspergers and Autism
"If autism means… don't pretend, be a little shy with strangers, dance, laugh, and show yourself they way you are… Then yes, I am autistic!! So why are you trying to change me?" "Autism is cool. When *I* like something, I like it …
Autism, Asperger's And Anxiety!
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I grew up not knowing I had Asperger's syndrome. I was diagnosed as an adult after many years of being told I was 'neurotic' and being diagnosed with OCD, social anxiety, various phobias etc. I tend to fixate on things and …
At the time of writing, 1 in 110 children, and 1 in 70 boys are now considered to be “sufferers” and many of our most successful and talented people are reckoned to be “sufferers” too and the numbers are increasing rapidly.
Although the behaviors known as Asperger syndrome were first described in the 1940s, the diagnosis was not officially recognized until 1994 and children that now get labeled as ‘suffering’ from Asperger’s Syndrome would previously have received the very positive label of being intellectually gifted just a few years ago.
Famous people that are thought to be “sufferers” include, Bill Gates who is one of the top ten wealthiest people in the world (and he doesn’t seem to be suffering) and Steven Spielberg (is he suffering?) to mention just two and the list goes on and on.
And names from the past include such people as Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and Einstein who certainly made major contributions to our planet.
What are the tell-tale signs?
Limited but intense range of interests, especially specific intellectual areas.
Difficulty in social relationships, especially responding appropriately to others.
Problems communicating, such as difficulty making conversation or understanding others.
Given the incredibly high number of people that are now reckoned to suffer from Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism, and the enormous contribution that many of them have made and are presently making, I wonder how society should be looking at them.
Are they sick, or simply much more intelligent and focused?
Should “sufferers” be looked down upon or considered geniuses?
What do you think?
Cockroaches Have Best Chance Of Surviving A Nuclear War
Robotic cockroach crawls out of the lab into real world – Network World
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Robotic cockroach crawls out of the lab into real world
Network World Its compliant, rather than rigid legs let it effectively mimic a cockroach scrambling across the floor. The other, called a Bipedal Ornithopter for Locomotion Transitioning or BOLT, is a 13 gram ornithopter that combines Octoroach's legs with wings for … Campus researchers look to nature in development of insectlike robots |
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New Florida Roaches Leave Florida Homeowners Squirming, Reports Suncoast
MarketWatch (press release) However, recent reports have many homeowners utterly distressed as reports of foreign cockroach species continue to surface in the Sunshine State. In the United States there are sixty-nine species of known cockroaches, with as many as twenty-nine … |
The recent post about earthquakes and nuclear explosions caused me to wonder about something that most of us have probably heard several times before, that cockroaches have a better chance of surviving a nuclear explosion than we humans do.
Is it just a story to make us feel better when we kill them, or is it really true?
