Inventor wrote:
Long before I discovered WP and AS, I had done a study of inventors. it turned into a book.
I had names and traits, with Tesla as the poster boy. Now It seems inventors are a subset of aspies.
They have all the traits, and are one out of 5000 in the general population. In that number there are 37.5 aspies.
There have been a lot of attempts to teach creativity. They all failed.
Most Patents are for small possible improments, and about half come from universities and industry. The Patents from the private inventors still make up half of all issued, and from that group come great leaps forward, spawning new industries.
Important Patents have been studied, they come from kitchen tables, and are done by people without education in the field. Education seems to decrease thought, creativity, as they have been taught, and one thing school teaches, is quit thinking.
A common list of inventors shows, major illness, near death, deaf, head injury, and a lot of people described as odd, strange, weird, awkward gait, strange speech patterns, intense and unreadable eyes.
As a group they produce billions for the economy, and get hardly any of it. I tried to organize them, a bunch of hemits, not at all social, I did a major mailing and got hardly any response.
Japan is non creative because of large companies, who own stock in each other, buy from each other, and new products, outside goods, have to market from scratch. Most work for the big company, and the contract says, the company owns all patents, so no incentive. It costs thousands, takes years of testing, and in Japan, you will not even get a thank you note.
I keep saying how great aspies are, besides patents, they are art, music, writing, and we do need an Aspie Union.
We started with comics, and went to cartoons, it was big time when Superman got a TV program.
Japan started with animation on TV, and found more money in Manga. They have artists, and the rights to TV animation, but are not creative.
I am, American Manga coming soon, the quality is better than comics, all gloss paper, 26 pages, now I just need stories and artwork. I start with how would I print that, where, how much, and work out from there.
So do we have some new stories and art work?
Inventor, you seem to do a good job keeping track of creative minds. I wish that we could put together some kind of documented article about the value of autistic spectrum minds and their link to creativity and inventiveness. After spending a little of of time on Autism Speaks, I think that the culture over there looks at autism in all forms as a terrible disease and they hate it.
Those cure people are well funded and their message is everywhere. I'm wondering if the cure people are causing non-conformity hate groups to unite and blame what they call an autism disease, that must be killed off.
My son isn't broken at all. He just has a harder life than an NT because of NT ignorance but he's succeeding, despite the road blocks.
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10 Nov 2007, 1:11 pm
