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To: longnshort who wrote (694312)	1/21/2013 12:34:14 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576751

You're still going to have to spend three days arguing over what the definitions of "mental" and "impairment" are. What is is you know? Probably like most lefties, the posts will go like Adam wasn't mentally impaired because he was on medication because he was mentally impaired.

To: longnshort who wrote (694312)	1/21/2013 1:39:25 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576751

He was on the autism spectrum. That isn't a mental impairment, it is a social disorder. Einstein, for example quite likely was on the spectrum too. Being unable to read and interpret body language. many facial expressions vocal tones doesn't make you mentally impaired. Nor does being an extreme visual thinker, using logic instead of emotionally thinking and being obsessive about details. Most HFA's have high IQs. There are several possible reasons why. One, it could be the logic portions of standard IQ tests give their scores lopsided boosts. Another is that they have to develop a lot of coping skills to deal with neurotypicals. In a social situation, instead of relying on the back brain pattern matching, everything is frontal cortex. They have to process a lot of information by observing everything and everyone around them and then processing the data and build a model of what is going on so they can run test scenarios against it to figure out how to respond. Which can lead to a meltdown in social situations which is more of an emotional storm that overwhelms them. As a result, they often memorize what is going on so they can review the events and try to figure out how things might have worked out differently. That takes a lot of intelligence. If you cannot do those things, you wind up on the low functioning end of the scale. You probably know about being on the low functioning end of the scale, don't you Shorty? Most of those on the spectrum wind up being victimized by NTs. They tend to be an easy mark, too trusting. Now there are two populations on the high functioning end. Those who used to be diagnosed with Asperger's and those who wore the HFA label. The difference is that the Asperger's want to be social and don't know how, and the others don't care. Hans Asperger noticed there were some children who were very knowledgeable about certain topics and tended to give very detailed lectures on certain subjects. This is because they are trying to make a social connection and hit upon a strategy that rarely works. He called them "little professors".