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25 Sep 2014, 7:51 pm

His recommended summer reading included a story about a professor with aspergers looking for love.

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I'm a Mac guy and grew up hating Gates so for him to have come this far..........it makes me smile.



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25 Sep 2014, 8:37 pm

Bill is a creative individual who marches to his own drummer. Maybe he's on the Spectrum and maybe he isn't, and either way is just fine. :jester:



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25 Sep 2014, 9:37 pm

There is video of him (or a pretty good impostor) rocking quite a bit whilst talking.



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25 Sep 2014, 10:43 pm

ehymw wrote:
His recommended summer reading included a story about a professor with aspergers looking for love.


Lots of NTs like the recommended book "The Rosie Project".

Personally, I did not find it a very good portrayal of Aspies - it is more what an NT imagines an Aspie to be, based on their NT lack of understanding of Aspie emotions. It makes the Aspie character seem rather robotic.

So, if Bill Gates likes this book maybe he is not an Aspie. And anyway, with so many NTs liking this book it proves nothing about Bill Gates if he recommends it.



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05 Oct 2014, 11:01 pm

one-A-N wrote:
ehymw wrote:
His recommended summer reading included a story about a professor with aspergers looking for love.


Lots of NTs like the recommended book "The Rosie Project".

Personally, I did not find it a very good portrayal of Aspies - it is more what an NT imagines an Aspie to be, based on their NT lack of understanding of Aspie emotions. It makes the Aspie character seem rather robotic.

So, if Bill Gates likes this book maybe he is not an Aspie. And anyway, with so many NTs liking this book it proves nothing about Bill Gates if he recommends it.


Bill wrote that he identified closely with the protagonist.



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05 Oct 2014, 11:45 pm

ajpd1989 wrote:
There is video of him (or a pretty good impostor) rocking quite a bit whilst talking.

Probably this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr7_T_M0g4[/youtube]



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10 Nov 2014, 1:53 pm

Humanaut wrote:
ajpd1989 wrote:
There is video of him (or a pretty good impostor) rocking quite a bit whilst talking.

Probably this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr7_T_M0g4[/youtube]


It's real.

and yes that provides more evidence he has it.



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10 Nov 2014, 10:52 pm

Humanaut wrote:
ajpd1989 wrote:
There is video of him (or a pretty good impostor) rocking quite a bit whilst talking.

Probably this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr7_T_M0g4[/youtube]


Wow, that's quite prominent. He looks like one of my aspie friends from social skills group. Even I don't generally rock that vigorously in public.


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10 Nov 2014, 11:36 pm

ehymw wrote:
Humanaut wrote:
ajpd1989 wrote:
There is video of him (or a pretty good impostor) rocking quite a bit whilst talking.

Probably this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr7_T_M0g4[/youtube]


It's real.

and yes that provides more evidence he has it.


That was certainly stressful situation for him.


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11 Nov 2014, 12:26 am

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11 Nov 2014, 12:31 am

StarTrekker wrote:
Humanaut wrote:
ajpd1989 wrote:
There is video of him (or a pretty good impostor) rocking quite a bit whilst talking.

Probably this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tr7_T_M0g4[/youtube]


Wow, that's quite prominent. He looks like one of my aspie friends from social skills group. Even I don't generally rock that vigorously in public.


I'm lucky I don't rock.

Just shake...........hooray. :(