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[quote="Gremlin"]Sociopathy has been pretty well dropped as a valid diagnosis; but it describes me generally, and I do play a lot of videogames [I'm too lazy to kill [i]real[/i] people, after all].

To a degree, the portrayal could be a matter of jealousy. I've had people tell me--apparently sincerely--that they wish they could remember numbers and dates and basic math the way I can. I've also had people mention various attributes, and denigrate the whole with 'Yeah; but you're a freak'. It seems to be human nature to encounter any anomaly, better or worse, and try to rationalise it into a disability, symptom, or illness.

Or--and probably more likely--the average idiot has no idea what autism is and doesn't particularly want to find out; so it's become a simple, digestible plotdevice keeping people watching the flashing colours between adverts. Remind me: is it still cynicism if it's probably true?

Curiously, the one chance I've seen for a television show to get it right was abandoned: an episode of [i]HouseMD[/i] had an autistic kid with parasites, and the implication that House himself might have Asperger; in the end, Cuddy denied that he qualified, though I keep having people suspect that House is based on me, out in the world. So I'm really not sure why autists are necessarily morons, villains, or both on television; I can only assume that the demographic don't want to think that we could be clever, invisible, and potentially able to take over the world as some new order of intelligence, like robots and computers used to be.[/quote]

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