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10 Jan 2014, 5:22 am
10 Jan 2014, 8:28 am
We don't know.
Eccentrics have a funny way of defying categorization -- that's what makes then 'eccentrics'.
It takes an appropriately-trained, licensed and experienced mental-health professional to make a valid diagnosis of an ASD. There seem to be no such people registered as members of WrongPlanet, so even an official opinion may not be possible.
Let's not focus on the possibility of some historical figure having an ASD; instead, let's focus on their achievements, shall we?
Dianna Waggoner wrote:
Eccentrics are the most diverse people in the world and among the hardest to define. In general they are loners and nonconformists who are curious, creative, obsessive. They don't give a hoot what other people think about them. They see the rest of the world as rather mundane and out of step with them. They will put up with ordinary life, but they don't like mass culture -- that is, believing what everyone else believes. They are also highly intelligent. The average IQ of those we studied was 115 to 120.
Aspies seem to care too much about what other people think of them to be labelled as merely 'eccentric'.
Besides, this is an article from 'People Magazine', which is not exactly 'Scientific American' ...
10 Jan 2014, 12:55 pm
Fnord wrote:
We don't know.
Eccentrics have a funny way of defying categorization -- that's what makes then 'eccentrics'.
It takes an appropriately-trained, licensed and experienced mental-health professional to make a valid diagnosis of an ASD. There seem to be no such people registered as members of WrongPlanet, so even an official opinion may not be possible.
Let's not focus on the possibility of some historical figure having an ASD; instead, let's focus on their achievements, shall we?
Aspies seem to care too much about what other people think of them to be labelled as merely 'eccentric'.
Besides, this is an article from 'People Magazine', which is not exactly 'Scientific American' ...
Eccentrics have a funny way of defying categorization -- that's what makes then 'eccentrics'.
It takes an appropriately-trained, licensed and experienced mental-health professional to make a valid diagnosis of an ASD. There seem to be no such people registered as members of WrongPlanet, so even an official opinion may not be possible.
Let's not focus on the possibility of some historical figure having an ASD; instead, let's focus on their achievements, shall we?
Dianna Waggoner wrote:
Eccentrics are the most diverse people in the world and among the hardest to define. In general they are loners and nonconformists who are curious, creative, obsessive. They don't give a hoot what other people think about them. They see the rest of the world as rather mundane and out of step with them. They will put up with ordinary life, but they don't like mass culture -- that is, believing what everyone else believes. They are also highly intelligent. The average IQ of those we studied was 115 to 120.
Aspies seem to care too much about what other people think of them to be labelled as merely 'eccentric'.
Besides, this is an article from 'People Magazine', which is not exactly 'Scientific American' ...
I'm not asking about diagnosing people. I'm just speculating.
