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lotusblossom
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24 Mar 2011, 7:09 am

wavefreak58 wrote:

lotusblossom wrote:

Society then was also much more aspie friendly

I have a hard time accepting that a society that still sent it's mentally ill to soul grinding institutions, ran industrial scale sweat shops, had debtors prisons, considered wife beating a right, didn't allow women to vote, had poor houses, lacked universal elementary and secondary education and used children in dangerous factories was aspie friendly.
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not if you were middle class and higher, that was only for the poor.

Even the aspies in my family from my fathers generation (my uncles and aunties etc) and my parents uncles and aunties were much more successful (lecturers, arctitects, engineers, biologists, writers) than the aspies in my generation (on welfare). Even down to it being more acceptable for people to keep living with their parents and being batcholors/spinsters. But i expect its a class thing and because they were posh with servants they could get away with being eccentric and not looking after themselves.

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24 Mar 2011, 7:53 am

Socrates of Athens. He lived as a pain in the arse and he died for being a pain in the arse.

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24 Mar 2011, 9:05 am

No one. I don't idolize people.

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24 Mar 2011, 11:07 am

ZeroGravitas wrote:

Richard Feynman, Donald Knuth, and Gregory Chaitin

Good choices, each and every.

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24 Mar 2011, 4:30 pm

Socrates, yeah, totally. That man I do idolize because he had some plutonium nuts and he wouldn't back down. Total bad ass.

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25 Mar 2011, 2:08 am

Not that there aren't a ton of fantastic people in the world, but I don't have it in me to idolize anyone, or be a super fan. Somebody said something about having an attachment to someone they've never met, and I think that's the same for me - I can admire, but that's about it.

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25 Mar 2011, 8:45 am

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Nikola Tesla

My friend did a leadership report for him in English class.

My idols: Temple Grandin and Joan Jett

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25 Mar 2011, 5:45 pm

fictional character....i love hurley from the show lost...he understands people and has a great heart!

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