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12 Nov 2007, 7:25 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Its not whether AS is contagious ! !

Its whether NTism IS ! !

There's a nightmare from Kafka for you ! ! One day you wake up, and go to your desk, and throw away all your books on string theory. Rubbish you shout ! ! Then you go to your closet, and throw all your clothes on the floor. "I must get the latest trendy clothing and style magazine, and spend lots of money I don't have for trendy expensive clothes so I can impress people I secretly despise." Then you go the cell phone store, and buy the most expensive new phone, and then start talking endlessly to vapid people regarding vapid topics so people can admire your taste in cell phones. At lunch, you go to an overly expensive clubby pub so you can try and pick up equally shallow members of the opposite sex for empty meaningless sex....

Ewww, I'm scaring meself ! !!


You really SHOULD throw out your string theory books because they really ARE rubbish.



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12 Nov 2007, 9:16 pm

Why do they do that? I will NEVER understand NT's! Don't they feel their lives (and brains) empty?!?
Sex is a game to them. Relationships are a game. I do not understand this at all with them. That annoys many but I would rather discuss the latest scientific finding or philosophy than discuss which actress is seeing which actor, etc. Blah blah blah!! ! WHo cares!?


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12 Nov 2007, 11:54 pm

There's no telling whether string theory is rubbish or not, really - so far, it makes no falsifiable claims. Kind of like brane theory, or the multiple worls lines hypothesis in quantum physics... :)


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13 Nov 2007, 12:32 am

A lot of people from majorities adopt the identity of whatever minority they can when it suits them. Only they can drop that identity whenever it becomes a hassle.

I think of all the rich suburban white kids who think they're "gangsta" and drive around with their homies, but when they're pulled over they immediately go into "you know my father is a judge, officer?" mode.

I think there are a few people who read a little about AS and say, "yeah, it means I'm like some sort of freaky genius - oh, and I lack the ability to get that report to you by friday or make anyone coffee... mine is a hard life, but at least I'm smarter than anybody here!"

Of course these guys are always out on the weekend slamming tequila at whatever nightclub that's their home away from home.

Posers. :lol:


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13 Nov 2007, 1:22 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:
There's no telling whether string theory is rubbish or not, really - so far, it makes no falsifiable claims.


Really now, I didn't mean to start a controversy.
I just picked string theory as an example of what fascinates ASpies, and I guess I hit a nerve ! !!


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13 Nov 2007, 1:36 pm

Look at it this way, maybe sweatpants and old, stained, worn-out t-shirts will become trendy and fashionable for a few months...



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13 Nov 2007, 2:38 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
One day you wake up, and go to your desk, and throw away all your books on string theory. Rubbish you shout ! ! Then you go to your closet, and throw all your clothes on the floor. "I must get the latest trendy clothing and style magazine, and spend lots of money I don't have for trendy expensive clothes so I can impress people I secretly despise." Then you go the cell phone store, and buy the most expensive new phone, and then start talking endlessly to vapid people regarding vapid topics so people can admire your taste in cell phones. At lunch, you go to an overly expensive clubby pub so you can try and pick up equally shallow members of the opposite sex for empty meaningless sex....


Thanks Prof now Im not going to be able to sleep for a week.

*shivers*


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13 Nov 2007, 3:17 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Its not whether AS is contagious ! !

Its whether NTism IS ! !

There's a nightmare from Kafka for you ! ! One day you wake up, and go to your desk, and throw away all your books on string theory. Rubbish you shout ! ! Then you go to your closet, and throw all your clothes on the floor. "I must get the latest trendy clothing and style magazine, and spend lots of money I don't have for trendy expensive clothes so I can impress people I secretly despise." Then you go the cell phone store, and buy the most expensive new phone, and then start talking endlessly to vapid people regarding vapid topics so people can admire your taste in cell phones. At lunch, you go to an overly expensive clubby pub so you can try and pick up equally shallow members of the opposite sex for empty meaningless sex....

Ewww, I'm scaring meself ! !!


Prof, whatever you've been smokin, you better stop! :lol:



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13 Nov 2007, 3:18 pm

ToadOfSteel wrote:
Look at it this way, maybe sweatpants and old, stained, worn-out t-shirts will become trendy and fashionable for a few months...


You mean they're not? 8O



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13 Nov 2007, 7:45 pm

Don't want to disagree with the possible trendiness of different conditions (including Aspergers). While most asperger's is developmental and starts to get established before birth, the idea of someone developing Asperger's as an adult is not impossible.

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Epilepsy Behav. 2006 Aug;9(1):111-8. Epub 2006 May 11.
Psychiatric comorbidity in adult patients with hypothalamic hamartoma.
Ali S, Moriarty J, Mullatti N, David A.

Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. [email protected]

The objective was to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in adults with hypothalamic hamartoma (HH). A standardized clinical interview and assessment scales were used to assess for depression, anxiety, personality, and sexual behavior, based on previous findings in the pediatric population. We found a high prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders, with Major Depressive Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder being the most common. "Anxious" personality types were the most common. Symptoms of Asperger syndrome were high in males versus females. We concluded that depression and anxiety are common in adult patients with HH. Remission of cognitive, behavioral, and autistic symptoms has been reported with surgical tumor resection. Whether this can correct the psychiatric disturbances remains to be investigated. The need for adjunctive psychiatric treatment may nevertheless remain.

PMID: 16697263 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]



Here is an article that suggests that a tumor-like growth in the hypothalamus can cause symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, and that these symptoms are more common in males with that tumor than in females. Removal of the tumor can lead to remission of some symptoms.

That's not the only research: >> Giggling and Autism associated with hypothalamic hamartoma

I've seen some other research (can't find it now) that documented adult-onset asperger's. Not so common, but then again, diagnosis is an art as much as a science and this disease is newly recognized and poorly understood.

Something in this thread reminds me of the old reassurance that cancer is not contagious. Yet many forms of cancer are linked to viruses, and viruses are contagious.



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13 Nov 2007, 8:10 pm

Nan wrote:

Prof, whatever you've been smokin, you better stop! :lol:


And why would I do that ???

Who would write this STUFF if I didn't ???


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13 Nov 2007, 9:37 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:
Nan wrote:

Prof, whatever you've been smokin, you better stop! :lol:


And why would I do that ???

Who would write this STUFF if I didn't ???


Well, then, at least share it, man! :lol:



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13 Nov 2007, 9:58 pm

Fraya wrote:
Prof_Pretorius wrote:
One day you wake up, and go to your desk, and throw away all your books on string theory. Rubbish you shout ! ! Then you go to your closet, and throw all your clothes on the floor. "I must get the latest trendy clothing and style magazine, and spend lots of money I don't have for trendy expensive clothes so I can impress people I secretly despise." Then you go the cell phone store, and buy the most expensive new phone, and then start talking endlessly to vapid people regarding vapid topics so people can admire your taste in cell phones. At lunch, you go to an overly expensive clubby pub so you can try and pick up equally shallow members of the opposite sex for empty meaningless sex....


Thanks Prof now Im not going to be able to sleep for a week.

*shivers*


The meaningless sex doesn't sound all that bad... the rest sounds awful.


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14 Nov 2007, 5:45 pm

"Don't bogart that joint, my freind,
pass it over again ..."


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19 Nov 2007, 12:07 am

this is why i laugh at people who're homophobic. they act like if they're around gay people they'll turn gay themselves or something, as if it's that easy.

you're not going to turn gay if you're around gay people, and you're not gonna get Asperger's if you're around Aspies.



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19 Nov 2007, 10:18 am

jamesohgoodie wrote:
this is why i laugh at people who're homophobic. they act like if they're around gay people they'll turn gay themselves or something, as if it's that easy.

you're not going to turn gay if you're around gay people, and you're not gonna get Asperger's if you're around Aspies.


I would have to agree. The only time I was ever homophobic was in High school, not so much because of actual homosexual people (I was fine around them), but because of the (presumably straight as they had girlfriends) jocks who enjoyed hitting on me to torment me.

As for that second part, I almost wish people COULD catch aspergers by hanging around aspies long enough. It would get rid of alot of the stupid in the world and level the social playing field all at the same time.