[ CNN ] "I Have Asperger's; I'm Just Like You"

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19 Dec 2012, 5:11 pm

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Michael Ryan wrote:

I am not an expert on Asperger's syndrome. But I am an expert on me, and I have Asperger's ... There is no direct connection between violence and autism...

Michael Ryan is an assignment producer who works on the CNN.com homepage.

A worthy effort, in my opinion.

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19 Dec 2012, 5:16 pm

Awesome.

Need more like it.

Turns out the M.E. doesn't even care if Lanza had it. "Not on the menu" he said.

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19 Dec 2012, 5:21 pm

Here's another article also on CNN.

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19 Dec 2012, 5:24 pm

That's nice to see. Thank you Michael Ryan!

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19 Dec 2012, 5:41 pm

I liked this article a lot. It was very relatable, smart and brave. I hope more people share their stories.

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19 Dec 2012, 6:14 pm

Love it! Thanks to you for sharing it and thanks to Micheal Ryan for being so brave

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19 Dec 2012, 7:43 pm

You're all welcome!

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19 Dec 2012, 8:45 pm

My own experience only says that people tend to find me more shy or a bit strange but don't bother me because I have asperger. I had friend in high school because of my passion for running, alpine skiing and my interenssest in science and writing habilities.

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19 Dec 2012, 10:38 pm

sometimes I feel much resentment, but managed to control it. The music helps me, music has feelings I can not express. I don't blame autism, i blame ignorant people.

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19 Dec 2012, 11:24 pm

Maybe there will be a backlash against the burgeoning witchhunt, and we'll be politically correct all of a sudden? Affirmative action, liberals tiptoeing around us? I could go for that.

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20 Dec 2012, 12:03 pm

First result on google:

The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on 19 August 1987. The gunman, 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan (b. 18 May 1960), armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, shot and killed sixteen people including his mother, and wounded fifteen others, then fatally shot himself. A report on this incident was commissioned by the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. It remains, along with the 1996 Dunblane massacre and the 2010 Cumbria shootings, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history.

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21 Dec 2012, 10:34 am

^ Absolutely nothing to do with the thread topic.

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21 Dec 2012, 10:42 am

Deceptionist wrote:

Yeah, you apparently googled "Michael Robert Ryan." The reporters name is Michael Ryan. This thread has nothing to do with this Michael Rober Ryan or any of this.

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21 Dec 2012, 3:20 pm

People do have the same names.

I really liked that article and he was very brave outing himself with it.

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21 Dec 2012, 4:00 pm

I was impressed. Not enough to out myself, but enough to send him a thank you note.

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21 Dec 2012, 4:24 pm

CNN will probably fire him for some random reason conveniently conjured up.

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