Cowbird wrote:
This is me all over. By the way, Einstein was definitely, totally autistic. He didn't speak until he was 4.5 years old (they assumed he was ret*d) and then went straight to full sentences. He wore the same clothes every day most of his adult life. I know someone who knows someone who took a class from him, and he would get so into his equations on the blackbord -- totally self-stimming -- that there would be no discussion at all through entire class meetings. Dude was a classic case.
Was that your friends roomates girlfriends brother-in-law who knew this person in Einsteins class? (Sorry couldn't resist that
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But yes, I agree that Einstein was most likely an Aspie or HFA. And the feeling of not belonging is quite real for me. I don't identify myself as American, just someone born there, nor as an Airman, just someone who's in the Air Force, hell, I don't even identify as human, merely a conciousness unluckily born into a human shell.
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