Aspergers and .... ?

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Why are people with asp portrayed mentally ret*d ie keep repeating words, jumping up and down flapping hands, foaming at the mouth,staring at shiny colorful flashing rotating shapes in the media ?

Is there a link between people who have Aspergers and becoming a anti semite like the now dead Bobby fisher ?

I smell troll. But ...

Pretending that we can actually KNOW Bobby Fischer's neurology, even if he WAS Asperger-ish, it is almost certain there were co-morbid conditions that led to his paranoia based on his rants. Asperger's does not require one to be paranoid.

There isn't enough education out there to let people know otherwise. It actually annoys me that even serious documentaries seem to deal exclusively with people who need carers rather than dealing with issues faced by those who have jobs and function relatively well within society.

I think this was the issue I had with the film Adam, I'm thinking yeaaah he has Aspergers but plenty of non-Aspergers folk are infantile self centred a-holes (Apologies if you liked his character). Just like there are plenty of Aspergers who are kind, funny, attentive and needing a little bit of help with the finer points of social interaction which makes them even more adorable in a home-made haircut sort of way.
You can have Aspergers and you don't have to be a nasty piece of scariness like B. Fischer or the Unabomber for that matter.
It's the Entertainment Industry! Rainman (Kim Peek) didn't even HAVE Autism. How sexy is semi-socially impaired? Would you sit through a movie about it? Maybe if it was batman

Or the people in-between: who aren't functioning well at all in society but don't need a carer. A little more light shone on those of us who fall through the cracks might result in less discrimination and more employers being willing to give us a chance to use the great talents we have taht are otherwise going to waste.