Need help, Any Journalists. Lawyers, Writers help Aspie
Sorry to bump this old thread, I just ran across this and remembered how it was relevant to the discussion here. Pretty interesting - it matched my intuition on the subject. I remember someone saying Einstein had Aspie traits too.
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/11/geniu ... connected/
by eric barker
Child prodigies show disproportionately high rates of autism spectrum disorders, score higher on tests of autistic traits and are more likely to have family members with autism.
Via Science Daily:
A new study of eight child prodigies suggests a possible link between these children’s special skills and autism. Of the eight prodigies studied, three had a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. As a group, the prodigies also tended to have slightly elevated scores on a test of autistic traits, when compared to a control group. In addition, half of the prodigies had a family member or a first- or second-degree relative with an autism diagnosis.
And:
“Our findings suggest that prodigies may have some moderated form of autism that actually enables their extraordinary talent.”
This all sounds very very dodgey and likely not at all scientific to me. I base this impression on the use of religion, destiny, 'open mindedness' as opposed to scientific rigour, vague unspecified dangers, vagueness in general and expected widespread ridicule. I find it impossible to take the post at all seriously given this. If I am wrong about all that, then it is probably important that the OP knows that is how the idea is comming across to me and likely some others. There are even some alarming resemblences to the way open-minded/nieve people are indoctrinated into cults and the like here. Again, I suspect that is not what is going on but all the posts from the OP give the impression of leaning more towards that direction than towards serious science/fact.
All this is not meant as an attack but, to state it again, a warning that this is the distinct impression I (and likely others) are left with so being taken seriously may be difficult without just being open and honest.
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I think you need to remember at the heart of all this, is OP's (perhaps very genuine) fear about people in positions of authority/power not wanting the dissemination of the information for nefarious reasons. He does say this repeatedly, so until we know otherwise we have to trust him on this.
I believe there is a lot of corruption and misuse of power and things covered up and kept behind the scenes from the masses, so it's not such a stretch, or doesn't deem OP paranoid if he has reason to believe he is at jeopardy if he disseminates information prematurely.
Try to be open-minded. OP has not invited anyone into a cult or done anything dodgy, he is just playing his cards close to his chest and asking advice.
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Last edited by whirlingmind on 07 May 2013, 6:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Yes. First, identify person(s) you feel you can trust. Draft or get a boilerplate non-disclosure and modify it, provide to the non-disclosure (NDA) to the person(s) and get them to sign and return it. Non-disclosures are used all the time in start ups and for proprietary information. A no compete would be useful also. Might need to be notarized if done electronically. Once in possession of the signed doc's you'd have legal recourse for breach of contract if the info was utilized inappropriately. I'm NOT an attorney. I've used, signed many of these working with start ups, pretty standard protocol.
Wiki NDA
Nolo NDA
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What I was thinking is that maybe if someone here was highly respected by the community I could try to tell them what it is I have discovered and then they might be able to help find others to help me. .. It would probably be beneficial if they had some kind of scientific background.. but that can be problematic too because of the dogma in these fields too.
But the key is I need people I know are trustworthy.... so maybe everyone here as a whole could help me find someone.
Just some forewarning: most AS experts are incredibly conceited and won't give you the time of day. Call your local newspaper's beat reporter and try to get him/her live rather than by voice mail (as voice mail means s/he probably won't pay attention).
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