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Specter
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02 May 2008, 2:33 pm

TallyMan wrote:
I wonder if his character was based on Aspergers behaviourism principles? Absent minded, technically clever, intense, mind everywhere, socially clumsy, strange mannerisms, no dress-sense?


well, that also sums up Einstein quite nicely, so I wouldn't put too much thought into the Asperger thing. They probably were thinking of Albert Einstein.


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02 May 2008, 7:35 pm

I wouldn't mind getting my savant self again. But my coming social "skills" are quite useful now.


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03 May 2008, 1:57 am

Specter wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
I wonder if his character was based on Aspergers behaviourism principles? Absent minded, technically clever, intense, mind everywhere, socially clumsy, strange mannerisms, no dress-sense?


well, that also sums up Einstein quite nicely, so I wouldn't put too much thought into the Asperger thing. They probably were thinking of Albert Einstein.


Not quite-

Einstein was also a serious ass about his romantic relationships, which I do not consider to be an aspie trait. . .


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