How did you get asperger syndrome out ot the clinical description you referenced? When I read the description in your link, what popped into my mind was Hillary.
How did you get asperger syndrome out ot the clinical description you referenced? When I read the description in your link, what popped into my mind was Hillary.
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What I said was: “I wonder if he was evaluated for some variety of “high functioning autism” such as, for example,...”.
Asperger’s syndrome happens to be a variety I’m familiar with, but there are evidently several others. As an example of an individual who has the “different consciousness” of this subset of the human population, consider the following links.
http://iautistic.com/what-is-autism.php
http://iautistic.com/autistic-label.php
http://iautistic.com/autism-myths-theory-of-mind.php
http://iautistic.com/autism-theory-of-mind-revisited.php
I don’t know much about Hillary, but it would be interesting if there were some good “spectrum measuring” tests that might place her somewhere on “the scale”. Unfortunately, this is a very murky subject with a lot of outstanding puzzles and diagnostic tests of limited usefulness and resolving power. Thus, the “autism spectrum” or “scale” seems to be more of a metaphor waiting for better tools to make it an illuminating theory rather than just a convenient place holder for a set of mysteries we are in the very early stages of exploring.
This might also be of some interest:
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~probbins/knowingme.pdf