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24 Jul 2014, 4:12 pm

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Having lived in Berlin for two years, no there are not more Aspies in Germany HOWEVER, as a race, I found them to be more intelligent and particular more intelligent on the whole than my nation which is Britian.

So I think that what has happened, is that Aspie traits being more useful in many ways to society, as far as efficiency, technology maths and music is concerned, and the Germans being already more intelligent, have adopted Aspie traits and they start training these traits when the kids are young. For example, they teach them to be correct, not teaching to be polite as being very important which is more general in the UK. They are taught to be studious and concerned with details making sure that everything is correct. A German can get suicidal if you point out that they have made a mistake. Just joking but it is there.

Inside of every German there is a policeman. True. They watch what you throw in the rubbish bins.

When I lived there, but not yet knowing I was an Aspie, I found that it was much easier for me in many ways, like they do not change their supermarket products around like they do here and everything is orderly and WORKS. I loved this. I loved it there.

there certainly more intelligent in how they view there own history then japan or the us are(although to be fair how they deal with horrible tragedies and what is appropriate to put in the media (look up the song mien teil and the film nekromantik also just think about struwellpeter)as well as just generally very different there. In my opinion for the better.), certainly there a lot more intellectual culturally then the us is. personally i like german culture a lot better then i do american culture. i think a lot of people don't understand it or would find a lot of the things i find deeply meaningful disturbing or f****d up.



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24 Jul 2014, 4:18 pm

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
AnonymissMadchen wrote:
I've been wondering if Germans have Asperger's Syndrome since they have always seemed to have a fixation for machines and how to make things work. I've also heard that they don't usually show emotion. There have also been a lot of scientists, such as Einstein, who were from Germany and also had Asperger's Syndrome.

Einstein was jewish, not german. I am sure there are some folks in Germany with autism, but just because someone is interested in machines and the culture frowns on showing emotion (so the kids are raised to be calm and practical, rather than emotional) doesn't mean they are autistic. It's the other components of autism that make one autistic - like the trouble we have with personal relationships, networking, making friends, difficulty coming up with the banter and "small talk" crucial for putting other people at ease and flirting.
It is not clear if germans as a people have trouble doing this.


Not sure being Jewish excludes Einstein from being German as well, wasn't he born there? I also wonder, was he religious or simply grew up in the culture and/or had specific jewish ethnicity though that concept somewhat confuses me, how something can be an ethnicity and a religion, and if someone of jewish ethnicity rejects the religion are they still considered to be one? Also I'd have to wonder if everyone in his family tree was of jewish ethnicity or if there where some german, germans in there as well.....derail I guess but I suppose I just figure Einstein was both technically.

Also its debatable if he had aspergers, as far as I know there is no formal diagnoses to speak of.


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24 Jul 2014, 4:38 pm

Daedelus1138 wrote:
The premise of this thread rests on ridiculous stereotyping of Germans.


^ This.

I thought this thread had been locked long ago; it was started by a troll who has long since been banned, so I'm locking it now.


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