By: Kolya
Flaming Fairy From the Asperger’s page you link to: People with the condition have difficulties in three main areas. They are: • social communication • social interaction • social...
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Maybe people you describe as “nerds” ARE also people with AS, but you and I both know that your post could be construed as an attempt to minimise, or even deny the existence of, Aspergers Syndrome.
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Hi FF, I’ve been to my GP. She gave me a short test to take to determine the extent of my apnoea. She announced that my answers indicated I only had a mild condition so nothing she could do. *pauses...
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Flaming Fairy I’m certainly not denying the existence of a recognisable syndrome that, these days, tends to be diagnosed as Aspergers (with or without the apostrophe). My point is that before the...
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Good luck, Otto! Kolya – Aspergers isn’t being presented here as a get out of jail free card but as context for McKinnons actions and as a possible precipitating factor in his suicidality.
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I don’t disagree with what you say, FF. But I stand by my point that because of the Aspergers diagnosis, a person’s alleged suicidality has been accepted as grounds for blocking their extradition,...
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Kolya – there is still a question mark over whether or not he will be prosecuted in the UK; his suicidality is a consideration only in regards his extradition. Presumably, the Home Sec didn’t want to...
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And again, you’re there with the minimisation of AS as just an “odd personality type”. By all means make your case as to why McKinnon should’ve been extradited, but this particular line of argument...
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I won’t pursue this argument any further, FF. But, just so know the full extent of my unworthiness, I want you to understand that what I’m concerned about is that as far as anybody knows Aspergers...
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