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26 Feb 2017, 3:40 am

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In a flurry of decisive actions, that were not marked by a series of lamely staged photo ops that showed him signing executive orders, surrounded by the equivalent of round the clock nurses, like a five year old child with a severe case of Asperger’s Syndrome


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26 Feb 2017, 3:53 am

Diagnosis: Acute Trump Derangement Syndrome. Prognosis: Incurable, likely terminal.


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27 Feb 2017, 6:15 am

That article is very hyperbolic and it is a shame that the author chose to use Asperger syndrome as an insult. I'm sure she would not have chosen Down syndrome to illustrate the point.



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15 Mar 2017, 9:09 pm

Asperger's is unspokenly but for real considered by many to be worse than Down's Syndrome or schizophrenia. I therefore feel as stigmatized as someone with Down's or schizo.