New York Times article on Heather Kuzmich

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04 Dec 2007, 8:56 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/healt ... ref=slogin

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04 Dec 2007, 9:31 am

Wow she wants to be a national spokesperson for Aspergers!
Thats so great This will hopefully bring awareness and understanding about Aspergers to public attention.

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04 Dec 2007, 9:57 am

Great article!

Thanks for sharing

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04 Dec 2007, 10:37 am

Yup, because who will care about anything unless it has a pretty face to sell it, right?

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04 Dec 2007, 10:46 am

WrongPlanet.net is the best website I have ever been in. Always so much info and interesting links.

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04 Dec 2007, 10:47 am

People will listen more when there's a pretty face talking. Just because we don't have a natural knack for sensing how best to influence others doesn't mean that we can't learn and use what's proven effective, right? Yay, Heather!

That article also impressed me with its balanced and open-minded outlook. There was very little of the exaggeration one typically finds in the press.

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04 Dec 2007, 10:47 am

Thyme, you're into final fantasy 8?

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04 Dec 2007, 11:03 am

Very interesting, thanks for the read!

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04 Dec 2007, 11:21 am

Not into fashion or models, so don't watch the show, but that is outstanding. Great article, and thank you for sharing it, KindofBlue.

Personal note: nice also to see I'm not the only Miles fan.

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04 Dec 2007, 11:36 am

I see the esteemed NYTimes refers to AS as a "disorder".

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04 Dec 2007, 12:21 pm

Terms like that don't bother me. It was clearly listed as a disorder in the DSM-IV. I don't regard the DSM as a shining example of scholarship, but the Times isn't doing anything wrong in quoting the (psycho)medical community accurately.

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04 Dec 2007, 1:14 pm

Just read the article. How nice for her. Sad that the others girls wanted to be so mean to her. Sad for them I mean.

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04 Dec 2007, 1:26 pm

psychedelic wrote:

Thyme, you're into final fantasy 8?

No why is my avatar a character from FF?
I picked it out of the new avatars this site offers.

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04 Dec 2007, 4:56 pm

gwenevyn wrote:

Terms like that don't bother me. It was clearly listed as a disorder in the DSM-IV.

It's an example of the Times being intellectually lazy.

There's more where that came from.

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04 Dec 2007, 5:47 pm

I think, for a story in the mainstream press, that's absolutely brilliant. There's no mention of the 'negatives' of AS as there are in most stories you read... 'omgz AS means you cant like look at people or talk to people and you sit and rock and obsess over prime numbers and you're an uber geek oh no oh my youll get depressionzzzz!'... but instead it just says 'Aspies' are outside the mainstream, often above-average intelligence, and 'both bizarre and brilliant'. Nothing wrong with any of that, is there?

I think as far as piece on AS go it's pretty fair and pretty balanced.

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04 Dec 2007, 8:06 pm

Thyme,

Your character is from final fantasy VIII. I don't remember her name but she ended up being the (attractive) older sister of a group of orphans which (surprise, surprise) end up saving the world. She was one of the ones involved in saving the world.

The oldest "older sister" was called Elle. (Why do I remember her name but not the others?)

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