Does Mitt Romney have Asperger's Syndrome?

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Mitt Romney's vicious, domineering behaviours & "youthful pranks". Really, a jerkass rich kid.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c ... bully.html

Being a successful business person usually means managing people. When the business grows to the size where you can become a rich CEO, you end up being a figurehead and delegating a lot of day-to-day details to middle-managers who may do stupid things or have their own wrong-headed agenda. You stop having direct control of the creation of your product. Instead your job becomes to control people who create things for you. What kind of aspie in their right mind would want to become a millionaire CEO? More likely the aspie invents something and then the better schmoozer/wheeler-dealer with less concern for ethics and modesty has to take over and gets most of the credit and financial reward. I'm not completely demonizing all large business owners, but anyone with a clue knows that "nice people" who do everything by the books and don't try to push any legal or ethical boundaries don't usually make it to the very top. I'm not saying it's easy either. It's just that most of the time it's a bit more than just "hard work and diligence". A lot of it is social skills, having balls, and even being a jerk and stepping on others every once in a while. I mean, sure Bill Gates gives quite a bit to charity and may be a basically decent person but he was also directly behind all kinds of nasty anti-competitive crap Microsoft was pulling from the very beginning.

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That's a fair point it would be interesting to know how much of these @ practices are directly the doing of Billy Boy, I suspect he invents and gets the other people to TKB (take care of business).

I have similar views of Warren Buffet the problem I have with Hamburger and coke man he seems a little to squeaky clean for my liking , still it's nice his giving away his fortune I didn't believe he would do it when he said he was going to give it all away in latter in life, its nice to be pleasantly surprised from time to time.

God forbid.

Romney is just rich and out of touch. It can happen to a lot of those born in poor circumstances - see any number of musicians or actors who become pricks once the money starts rolling in - and as I understand it, Romney was certainly not born in poor circumstances. What's more, in a lot of situations, any idiosyncracies are glossed over because you're wealthy. It's not likely a rich man will be told 'hey, that was a jerky thing to do'.

I considered myself a misfit because I was a rare adolescent male who was NOT obsessed with cars. So these car things screams 'normal' to me. Though a friend in my adolesence who was my opposite, and who could spot a 68 impala in a movie was probably adhd-but I digress. And that thing about japanese cars is a deliberate clever pitch to american auto workers who fear foriegn competion-a clever code planted for part of his audience- nothing to do with guiless enthusiasm for a hobby! That remark was actually very clever and very deliberate pandering!

absolutelt not, the guy does notplay by the rules and has all the characteristics of a straight up nt (nut) NT

Well, I googled this so it was on my mind as well. The guy just seems a little odd and uncharismatic to be running for the presidency. I have to echo what others have said here, I'm not sure why Romney is so odd, but I think it has to do with the fact that this guy comes from the world of super-rich people and is used to conversing with them and their ilk. So when he talks he seems very stiff and awkward. Also, he probably does not have a history of being disagreed with. His stature, wealth, and intelligence has probably gifted him with certain psychological advantages that have meant that people don't challenge him very often, and when he is challenged he becomes uncomfortable. I've seen the guy on 60 minutes with his family and there he seems like a normal, nice guy. It's just when he gets behind the camera and starts "campaigning" he fails miserably. If he had more charisma he would probably be better off than he is now.

Mitt Romney suffers from dumb-schmuck disease.

ruveyn

Unfortunately though, the majority of American voters are pretty dumb and vote for the most likable candidate, and not the one who's qualified for the Job. They re-elected Bush in '04 and the idiots in the Democratic Party chose Obama and not Billary as the nominee.

i was listening to a lovely story on the npr about psychopathy or sociopathy and it seems like mitt is one of those. i say the story was lovely because we often think of sociopaths killing people and whatnot, but there are folks who use their sociopathy for good instead of evil. not saying which one mitt is...

How are they using it for 'good'? Per definition, doesn't a sociopath not care about the moral impact, the good or evil, of their choices and actions towards others?

Mitt Romney is not an Aspie. He is a Gentile. He has a goyische kopf.

He thinks like a Gentile and he acts like a Gentile. He also probably has not had an original thought in the last 40 years.

ruveyn

What are you implying?

He's not an intellectual.

Mitt Romney would be an aspie if it would get him elected. But because aspies are such a small portion of the electorate it not possible for him to convert.

He reminds me of this guy Peter Popoff, Romney has not found a way to be as overt as Popoff.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7BQKu0YP8Y[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ST5EbPd3qc[/youtube]
Popoff hooks the desperate, dazed and greedy, he tells them exactly what they want to hear.

100%, Romney is no aspie.