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Longshanks
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I think a lot of this is being overblown. I'd worry more about Ron Paul and Barack Obama's views on autisim than I would Santorum. Obama almost had a massive coronary when he found out that an autistic air force officer commanded part of the tarmac force at the base he was visiting when I was serving there. Obama went so far as to demand court-martials.
-Longshanks
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Kraichgauer
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| Longshanks wrote: | I think a lot of this is being overblown. I'd worry more about Ron Paul and Barack Obama's views on autisim than I would Santorum. Obama almost had a massive coronary when he found out that an autistic air force officer commanded part of the tarmac force at the base he was visiting when I was serving there. Obama went so far as to demand court-martials.
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Never heard that. Do you have a source?
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer |
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Longshanks
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:34 am Post subject: |
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For military reasons I can't reveal it. I just thank God he didn't find out about my AS. I commanded the other half.
-Longshanks
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auntblabby
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| Longshanks wrote: | For military reasons I can't reveal it. I just thank God he didn't find out about my AS. I commanded the other half.
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wow 
you'd have to be the highest-functioning AS type i've heard of, besides bill gates. |
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Longshanks
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You are gracious, my friend.
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| Longshanks wrote: | | You are gracious, my friend. |
i'd really like to hear your lifestory, IOW how one with AS gets to be a leader of men, a respected man. such things are a mystery to me, like a doorknob must be to a cat. |
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Longshanks
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It's really not all that glorious. I'm a survivor. No other way I can put it. If you read my posts you'll catch some of it. I also work hard and think about the welfare of those who serve under me. I give credit for my sucesses to the God that has blessed me and give thanks to both Him and my wife. People think I'm highly finctional. I may have a high IQ but functional - please! My AS is textbook. My childhood heroes were Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln (I'm a distant cousin to both), Stonewall Jackson, U.S. Grant, John Wayne and James T. Kirk. These men served as my father figures. Duty has been a kind companion and is something I have lived my life by. It has seen me through an abusive and horrific childhood. Faith is something I acquired later in life, and God has healed me through faith in many ways. But I consider myself to be just another guy.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| Longshanks wrote: | | It's really not all that glorious. I'm a survivor. No other way I can put it. If you read my posts you'll catch some of it. I also work hard and think about the welfare of those who serve under me. I give credit for my sucesses to the God that has blessed me and give thanks to both Him and my wife. People think I'm highly functional. I may have a high IQ but functional - please! My AS is textbook. My childhood heroes were Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln (I'm a distant cousin to both), Stonewall Jackson, U.S. Grant, John Wayne and James T. Kirk. These men served as my father figures. Duty has been a kind companion and is something I have lived my life by. It has seen me through an abusive and horrific childhood. Faith is something I acquired later in life, and God has healed me through faith in many ways. But I consider myself to be just another guy. |
another guy with a sharp noodle on his shoulders. i read some place that the one thing that highly successful [financially, professionally, socially, psychologically] survivors of unfortunate childhoods had in common, was an IQ in the top two percent [132 or above, WAIS], and in conjunction with high EQ, this gave them the raw cognitive processing ability to power their way around/outthink whatever obstacles they faced. smarts are the great equalizer. since you are related to great men, that pedigree is undoubtedly a plus. i am a mutt in comparison, but at least a mutt among many.  you may want to read about lewis terman [early 20th century army shrink] and his longitudinal study of successful people, which culminated in his book, "the gifted," some interesting reading there. |
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I am a mutt as well - at least that is what my family tree tells me. I will leave it with a closing remark made by Henry Fonda - "Even amongst the most exhaulted, we all sit on our own arse." In other words, I am no better than others. I just believe that knowledge should be used to improve humankind - not destroy it.
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| Longshanks wrote: | | I am a mutt as well - at least that is what my family tree tells me. I will leave it with a closing remark made by Henry Fonda - "Even amongst the most exhaulted, we all sit on our own arse." In other words, I am no better than others. I just believe that knowledge should be used to improve humankind - not destroy it. |
reminds me of something patton said about "from one so-and-so to another."  |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:12 am Post subject: |
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Looking through the glass,
Darkly I see,
I have fought in many times, at many places,
under many names, in many faces,
but always me. - General George S. Patton, Jr.
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I died as a mineral and became a plant;
I died as a plant and rose to animal;
I died as animal and I was a man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as man to soar
With angels blest. Yet even from an angel
I must pass on; All except God must perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
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Yeah, I'd say Patton was headed in that general direction or train of thought.
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| the belief in reincarnation is what keeps me going, it is the only reason i haven't cashed in my chips so far. |
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| auntblabby wrote: | | the belief in reincarnation is what keeps me going, it is the only reason i haven't cashed in my chips so far. |
Reincarnation or not, I think I speak for all of us when I say that you make our little Aspergian island of serenity a funner and more interesting place. So please, stick around.
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