Psychology Today's Bigotry: Facebook gives you Aspergers

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Not every social outcast nerd has AS. That being said, I don't know enough about Zuckerberg's business interactions to be able to say how well he handled them. But some sources are so quick to say someone has AS just on little evidence. I remember seeing an article a month or so ago saying William McGonnogal (aka the worst poet ever, according to virtually many sources) had AS becuase he "didn't react to criticism, such as people throwing eggs at him while he was reading his poetry publicly". No, that means either he was an idiot or he was delusional and thought his poetry was good (or a bit of both). And the articles didn't seem to present any evidence that McGonogall had AS other than this unresponsiveness to criticism. And Zuckerberg I suspect we may be making the same judgements. He's a social outcast computer nerd. There's way more to it than that. And in today's society, social outcast and computer nerd tend to be connected associations even in individuals without AS.

False. Facebook has actually been some good AS therapy for me because I figure out what works and what doesn't online and it carries over to RL. Facebook does not give AS, it actually can reverse it, at least somewhat.