Asperger's Syndrome is Scandinavian

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Well I'm sure I have nothing Scandinavian in me. Coming from a long line of Chinese aspies. We can trace up our ancestry to about 900 AD. Some relatives believe we can trace it up all the way back to about 500 BC to a dude who started the family name. I don't think they found enough record to link it back that far.

Anyway, the aspie qualities were considered royal qualities. (You know Chinese emperors always call themselves "my loneliness". To be an emperor is to be alone and have no friends or equals.) If you gotta start wars and execute people all the time (including your own family), not being emotional is probably a good thing.

DH is part Norwegian with blue eyes, but he's NT. None of his blonde/blue family seem autistic at all as far as I know. And they love parties and social stuff. They're warm, loving people and the biggest reason I feel NTs are all right after all.

I live in america have blue eyes and am of scottish blood.

So I'm Danish (Well half English but lived here all my life) and I find this really hard to believe. The percentage of Aspies in Denmark is about the same as the rest of the world. I too have blue eyes, but most of my family haven't. Actually I find most people I know really sociable here and therefore annoying for my taste.

When I look at my family my Danish side all have darker hair, darker eyes and REALLY annoyingly sociable, but my English site is quite different. I suspect my Grandfather has AS and properly my dad and aunt too and non of them have blue eyes. So from my point of view I don't find Denmark (I can't speak for the rest of Scandinavia) particularly socially awkward or aspie like.

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I am mainly of Irish ancestry mixed with Welsh and English I dont think there is scandanavian ancestry except perhaps the times vikings occupied Ireland. Also quite alot of Japanese have Aspergers too no scandanavian blood there.

You should read about the swedish Deluge.
When Sweden launched a massive invasion of poland under Charles X Gustav.
Soo If you have polish ancestors. Its quite possible that you could have swedish too.

Neither do the scandinavians.

In my experience Sweden is a very aspie country, even for the NT poplulation. Everything is ordered and structured and controlled. Decor and food is simple and gentle on the senses. Rules for this, rules for that, which everyone follow because they're the rules. Social contact isn't spontaneous, it is also structured and organised. What other country socialises through weekly 'special interest' associations which are all listed in a directory for your perusal? I live in a small village. We have a social association for: football, skiing, beekeeping, WoW, photography, radio amatuers, folk dancing, singing, gardening, painting, crafts, book club, My Little Pony, history, environment, fishing, cycling, dog club, 3 choirs, brass band, film club and so on and so on.

Well, there was a great deal of settlement by Scandinavians not only in Ireland but also in England, particularly in the north, by the Danes.

My son is a complete mongrel, he has Scandinavian (Danish) heritage, as well as English, Irish, Scottish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish and he looks 'Scandinavian (tall, fair, pale, blue eyes).

I'm Mestizo, why do I have AS?

This theory can't be true.
For most Germans most Brittians and Japanese people are socialy awkward.
It's just a matter of perspective and what's considered as socially "normal" in a certain cultur.

That doesn't mean anything. btw Scandinavians are descended from the germanic tribes, and the Angles a germanic tribe from Denmark migrated to present England hence the name England. Then the Scandinavians would go on to colonise Great Britain/Ireland multiple times as well Normandy, France. Hence (Norrman - "Northmen").

If the Scandinavians/vikings spread it, then almost anyone from any part of Europe could have it due to expansion/immigration/wars/conquests. There was the French Empire under Napoleon and other countries have done that too. You see where I am going with this.

Actually no, because the Scandinavians didn't spread it to Japan so far I know and it's allways a matter of perspective.

Also nearly just europeans would be autistic than, what's not the case.
People from Somalia and other countries are also very often autistic who didn't have anything to do wit Scandinavia, also they are not mor often autistic than others.

I don't think at all that Scandinavians behave autistic.

"Socially awkward" does not equal Asperger's. Victorian people would seem socially awkward to everyone today, even to their own descendants. Far moreso than the Japanese seem to Germans. This is just two different cultures, one is more formal than the other.

That being said, I have no idea what the global distribution of Asperger's is like. If it's equally distributed then it probably has no particular point of origin, or one that is very remote in time.

Yes that's EXACTLY why I said it, because the "Scandinaviantheory" is just silly and for other nations other culturs seem "socially awkward"...!

Interesting CBS 60minutes article about Finnish awkwardness, 7 minutes long

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxZoV3t61c[/youtube]