Geeky1
20 May 2004, 7:54am
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html
Nick is building a universe on his computer. He's already mapped out his first planet: an anvil-shaped world called Denthaim that is home to gnomes and gods, along with a three-gendered race known as kiman. As he tells me about his universe, Nick looks up at the ceiling, humming fragments of a melody over and over. "I'm thinking of making magic a form of quantum physics, but I haven't decided yet, actually," he explains. The music of his speech is pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic - as if the soul of an Oxford don has been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a chubby, rosy-cheeked boy from Silicon Valley. Nick is 11 years old.
Interesting read. I was told I had a mild case of Asperger's 2 years ago or so. (after I came up with the screen name, no less). Doesn't bother me at all, and I would argue that some aspects of my personality that one could blame on it are actually good things. Regardless, it has been speculated that most "geeks" have it, which means that most of the people here probably have it, to one extent or another.
However, we're in (mostly) good company:
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4502/famousac.html
The (mostly) stems from the fact that Al Gore is on that list. I feel sick. ;D
Nick is building a universe on his computer. He's already mapped out his first planet: an anvil-shaped world called Denthaim that is home to gnomes and gods, along with a three-gendered race known as kiman. As he tells me about his universe, Nick looks up at the ceiling, humming fragments of a melody over and over. "I'm thinking of making magic a form of quantum physics, but I haven't decided yet, actually," he explains. The music of his speech is pitched high, alternately poetic and pedantic - as if the soul of an Oxford don has been awkwardly reincarnated in the body of a chubby, rosy-cheeked boy from Silicon Valley. Nick is 11 years old.
Interesting read. I was told I had a mild case of Asperger's 2 years ago or so. (after I came up with the screen name, no less). Doesn't bother me at all, and I would argue that some aspects of my personality that one could blame on it are actually good things. Regardless, it has been speculated that most "geeks" have it, which means that most of the people here probably have it, to one extent or another.
However, we're in (mostly) good company:
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4502/famousac.html
The (mostly) stems from the fact that Al Gore is on that list. I feel sick. ;D