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Prof_Pretorius
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06 Jan 2009, 5:58 pm

dadum wrote:
I think it's pointless to discuss wether anyone of them "really" had autism or any other criteria-based condition.(meaning that having the traits is the same as having the condition)

However it's very encouraging to know that creative geniuses are rarely anything close to "normal".


Absolutely ! ! It has occured to me that most of the men who started their own automobile manufacturing business were far from "normal". People never mention Henry Ford as a possible ASpie, but he was quite eccentric.


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