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23 Mar 2008, 11:48 am

Here is Sen. Obama's stand of the issue of autism. http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/AutismSpe...orders.pdf



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23 Mar 2008, 12:09 pm

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/AutismSpectrumDisorders.pdf


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01 Apr 2008, 11:39 pm

It seems to me that Obama might be a little aspie himself



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02 Apr 2008, 2:57 pm

MartyMoose wrote:
It seems to me that Obama might be a little aspie himself

No. Not even remotely.


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02 Apr 2008, 2:59 pm

Orwell wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
It seems to me that Obama might be a little aspie himself

No. Not even remotely.

I dunno the way he pauses and stutters when he's trying to answer a question made me think he talks a little like me.



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02 Apr 2008, 3:15 pm

MartyMoose wrote:
Orwell wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
It seems to me that Obama might be a little aspie himself

No. Not even remotely.

I dunno the way he pauses and stutters when he's trying to answer a question made me think he talks a little like me.

Plenty of NTs stutter, and you yourself aren't diagnosed, so trying to claim that X person is autistic because their speech is somewhat similar to yours is quite the stretch. You don't think many young, inexperienced politicians in such a delicate position would feel enough stress to make them stutter a little bit when on national TV? when their every word, every motion is carefully scrutinized by the media? And even so, I haven't noticed much of a stutter form Senator Obama (if at all). If he has paused, it is to carefully consider a question so he doesn't make an idiot of himself in front of the entire country.


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02 Apr 2008, 3:17 pm

Orwell wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
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MartyMoose wrote:
It seems to me that Obama might be a little aspie himself

No. Not even remotely.

I dunno the way he pauses and stutters when he's trying to answer a question made me think he talks a little like me.

Plenty of NTs stutter, and you yourself aren't diagnosed, so trying to claim that X person is autistic because their speech is somewhat similar to yours is quite the stretch. You don't think many young, inexperienced politicians in such a delicate position would feel enough stress to make them stutter a little bit when on national TV? when their every word, every motion is carefully scrutinized by the media? And even so, I haven't noticed much of a stutter form Senator Obama (if at all). If he has paused, it is to carefully consider a question so he doesn't make an idiot of himself in front of the entire country.
Yea you're prolly right. But it is known that Thomas Jefferson very likely did have Aspergers.



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02 Apr 2008, 3:49 pm

the 6 bil of earth's population have Asperger.



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02 Apr 2008, 4:07 pm

MartyMoose wrote:
Yea you're prolly right. But it is known that Thomas Jefferson very likely did have Aspergers.

There has been speculation to that effect. I don't know if we have detailed enough biographical info on Jefferson for a posthumous diagnosis, though. Newton I could believe; his behavioral oddities and quirks are well-documented. Jefferson I'm not quite convinced.


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02 Apr 2008, 4:12 pm

Orwell wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
Yea you're prolly right. But it is known that Thomas Jefferson very likely did have Aspergers.

There has been speculation to that effect. I don't know if we have detailed enough biographical info on Jefferson for a posthumous diagnosis, though. Newton I could believe; his behavioral oddities and quirks are well-documented. Jefferson I'm not quite convinced.

It is documented that Jefferson had a speech impediment That I know


Edison I'm pretty much sure of. He was extremely obsessive about inventing.



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02 Apr 2008, 4:33 pm

MartyMoose wrote:
It is documented that Jefferson had a speech impediment That I know

Current DSM criteria exclude those with language delays from Asperger diagnosis.


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