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28 Jun 2010, 4:41 pm

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I can lie like a champ, and have Asperger's. My brother was high up in several groups that required politician like skills, and has Asperger's. My son loves large amounts of socialization, and has autism.

Saying that those traits make it unlikely to be on the spectrum is just as insulting as that article.


But you don't claim all three traits in one Autistic individual.

Anyone can lie, that doesn't mean you're good at it. And anyone can be misdiagnosed or lie about a diagnosis.

The majority response in this very thread is clearly of a different opinion ARI, indicating that such behavior is quite rare for someone with AS. So much so that the general spontaneous consensus among Aspies themselves is that its virtually unheard of.

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I think it's easy to get labeled AS though, from what everyone is saying here either the criteria are too lax


Apparently so.



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28 Jun 2010, 11:36 pm

I'd say cognitive dissonance, everyone thought him to be the "golden boy", a mighty mouse coming to save the day and in fact he's a failure. The cap and trade on CO2 and other environment issues are dead in the water and the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster. He's lost two Generals in Afganistan, Menard(Canadian) was fired, Then, McChrystal (US) and the offensive is stalled in Kandahar so that war will drag on far longer than he desired. Healthcare reform is a joke that barely got by with a super-majority in the Senate and they still have to write the punchline. Everyone he campaigned for during the midterm elections has lost, and he has the lowest approval rating of any first term president ever, even Nixon was more popular. The economy is in shambles.

If it were me, I'd be a psychological basket-case too


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29 Jun 2010, 12:06 am

budgenator wrote:
I'd say cognitive dissonance, everyone thought him to be the "golden boy", a mighty mouse coming to save the day and in fact he's a failure. The cap and trade on CO2 and other environment issues are dead in the water and the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster. He's lost two Generals in Afganistan, Menard(Canadian) was fired, Then, McChrystal (US) and the offensive is stalled in Kandahar so that war will drag on far longer than he desired. Healthcare reform is a joke that barely got by with a super-majority in the Senate and they still have to write the punchline. Everyone he campaigned for during the midterm elections has lost, and he has the lowest approval rating of any first term president ever, even Nixon was more popular. The economy is in shambles.

If it were me, I'd be a psychological basket-case too


I have my own ideas on how to restore the country to its former glory. The thing is id have to incite a bunch of lazy-as-hell apathy-filled citizens who are way too resigned to their dim fates to rise up and overthrow the current government. Both the right and the left are to blame, since they both are just pawns for the corporate fatcats to wage their wars.

So yes, pardon the shots of homebrew firewater influencing me right now, but really I dont care if anyone agrees or disagrees. I needed to get my short and to the point politico-economical out of my head so I can sleep. So yeah that paragraph above is indeed how messed up my subconscious can get. Time to watch metalocalype.


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29 Jun 2010, 6:29 am

Prince Obama is all about Appearances and not Substance. He is a projection of his own ego and is unable to come to grips with either physical or political reality. The man is an image on a teleprompter, not a real person.

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29 Jun 2010, 7:54 am

Obama's behavior is not particularly bizarre. That article is bizarre. And clueless. If Obama has Asperger's, he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for not having massive meltdowns on the campaign trail, and a blue ribbon for learning to socialize so successfully that he is considered an exceptionally charismatic president. God knows Richard Nixon did not have the greatest of social skills, but he cheated.



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07 Jul 2010, 12:48 pm

What is wrong with all office seekers? They want a high-stress Government job that at best only pays $300,000 per year, with public Housing, and it is only a temporary position.

I have observed that only only 3 basic kinds of people are interested in running for office:
1) Fanatics
2) Criminals
3) people who are neither, they are doomed to fail.



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08 Jul 2010, 10:19 am

now i've seen everything. that's even stupider than certain people on this site claiming that every celebrity in the world has aspergers *rolls eyes*