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19 Jul 2005, 8:21 am

Ok, I just read this article on the net. Don't ask me who wrote it or where it is, because I can't find it again after leaving the PC in anger. But it was written by some woman who is a professor of psychiatry in a New York college.

Basically, she believes that Asperger's (and most HFA) doesn't exist. She believes that we are all just nerds using our self pity to defraud our various governments.
She calls AS a "soft disorder" and says that "Autism has becaome a catch-all barrel for anyone wanting a handout".

I just don't know how to deal with people like this...



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19 Jul 2005, 8:27 am

tom wrote:
I just don't know how to deal with people like this...

I've found marinating overnight, adding salt, pepper and onions and baking for two hours at 450 degrees results in the best taste.



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19 Jul 2005, 8:28 am

mmm... sirloin or rump cut Ghotistix? :evil:



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19 Jul 2005, 8:28 am

ghotistix wrote:
tom wrote:
I just don't know how to deal with people like this...

I've found marinating overnight, adding salt, pepper and onions and baking for two hours at 450 degrees results in the best taste.


Thats odd...... I find adding tomatoes improves the flavour more.


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19 Jul 2005, 9:10 am

silly cow.

(however - haven't read the article, so can't really comment. but she sounds like a silly cow, anyway. i wouldn't waste any more energy on her).



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19 Jul 2005, 12:17 pm

I'd prefer the Ribs, myself.



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19 Jul 2005, 12:50 pm

Hands CR the ribs with a portion of London fish n' chips!



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19 Jul 2005, 1:18 pm

Mmmmmmmmm...fish 'n' chips...and malt vinegar! *Drools*


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19 Jul 2005, 2:05 pm

Ribs and chicken strips with seasoned fries!

I'm interested in seeing that article, Tom. Is there a link?


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19 Jul 2005, 2:15 pm

believe me, I'm looking for it, unfortuantly I can't seem to find it again!



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19 Jul 2005, 2:42 pm

I call the liver! Make sure there are lots of onions on it!

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This is the coolest thread I've seen in a while!


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19 Jul 2005, 2:57 pm

The only eating of meat I approve of is small children.

On the topic, this surprisingly does not make "angry" perse, but just a little irked.

The fact that she says that AS is nonexistant makes me angry, but when she says "AS is a soft disorder" I don't exactly agree with her, but I don't disagree, either.

The thing is, I don't see AS as a "disorder" I see it as a different kind of person. If you can't fix it, it's not broken. Has anyone ever been cured of AS? I don't think so.

We're not broken, we're just different.

But yeah I can see how that would make many aspies pretty pissed (personally, I just don't get angry).


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19 Jul 2005, 3:24 pm

Don't forget to add mushrooms and red peppers! Oh! And sautee them all!

Disorder is such a mis-used word. It's a syndroume. There's multiple definition though. Hmm... People like her are just not seeing the big picture.


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19 Jul 2005, 3:53 pm

How can the rest of you overlook the most important thing..... GARLIC!



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19 Jul 2005, 4:17 pm

Fogman wrote:
How can the rest of you overlook the most important thing..... GARLIC!


8O *Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp*


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19 Jul 2005, 4:49 pm

Get Tome Cruise to inform her that psychiatry isn't a real proffesion.