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I found this on Aspergers to

cmaukonen — Thu, 26 May 2011 03:01:17 +0000

In reply to An Asperger's approach to the global economy

I found this on Aspergers to be very enlightening.

http://www.paulcooijmans.com/asperger/straight_talk_about_asperger.html

Though I do not entirely agree with his thoughts on intelligence vs Aspergers since most IQ and other intelligence tests are biased towards those with out it.

I have said that if someone

Richard Day — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:57:31 +0000

In reply to An Asperger's approach to the global economy

I have said that if someone sneezes in Florida, I might buy a orange with some virus that may infect me.

But where do all of our olives come from?

And how do I know where some corn oil came from?

We are stuck in a global community whether we like it or not!

Okay, got it. There's

Obey — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:30:22 +0000

In reply to I wondered if that was were

Okay, got it. There's definitely some of that too.

I wondered if that was were

cmaukonen — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:07:54 +0000

In reply to Don't know what direction

I wondered if that was were you were going. Not where I was going at all. I do not see it as psychopathy at least not in the leaders I have mentioned.

It strikes me more as a single mindedness that is almost compulsive. A beating of a dead horse convinced that they simply are not beating it hard enough or long enough.

Don't know what direction

Obey — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:09:20 +0000

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Don't know what direction you're going in with those thoughts, C.

For me the most natural comparison is with psychopathy. And it's really not just an interesting resemblance in behavior. Many corporate heads and such are famously psychopaths in the clinical sense. What I think has happened is that nurturing empathy and thereby suppressing psychopathic tendencies has fallen to the wayside, to the point where western society actually enables psychopaths, encourages them, promotes them, honors them. And this is the result: they destroy the world.

It may sound like it that

cmaukonen — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:00:19 +0000

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It may sound like it that makes the assumption that they are other wise normal - for lack of a better term. Which then assumes that they became this way on purpose or through some decision of their own. Or that something can be done about it. Or that this mode of thinking is always a bad thing in all cases. All of which are judgements.

Point taken.

cmaukonen — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:45:00 +0000

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Point taken.

This bit - bigwigs at the EU

Obey — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:34:38 +0000

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This bit - bigwigs at the EU and ECB would rather see cities across the continent descend into a bloody free-for-all than lose one euro on their original investment - sounds like a description of self-absorbed jerks.

More generally, it's pretty offensive to Aspies since it confuses them with zero-empathy syndromes like psychopathy as well as borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. The problem in Autism spectrum disorders is often regarded as one of having too much empathy - being too sensitive to social signals and emotional expression in others. Aspies are known for forming extremely close relationships with others.

I don't remember reading

cmaukonen — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:23:31 +0000

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I don't remember reading anywhere where it says that at all. Just did a grep on the whole thing and the terms jerk and self-absorbed are not there.

But the article is equating

Donal — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:13:05 +0000

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But the article is equating autism with being a self-absorbed jerk. I am related to several aspies that are as socially conscious as anyone you'd care to mention.