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DC
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25 Sep 2011, 8:59 pm

I know this has been discussed here before but I'm wondering what you make of this recent article.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 58654.html

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Later, when I became well known, people would enjoy pointing out that I had Asperger's or else that I was dangling somewhere on the autistic spectrum. I don't want to spoil anyone's fun, so let's just say I am – all hackers are, and I would argue all men are a little bit autistic. But in my mid- to late teens I could barely focus on anything that didn't seem to me like a major breakthrough.


Is that an admission, a denial, a plug for a book or setting up a legal defence for not understanding non-verbal communication while in bed with a certain female?

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PS I'm not sure where this thread belongs, feel free to move it if it's better placed elsewhere.



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25 Sep 2011, 9:01 pm

Blast from the past.

I think he might be mildly aspie but I'm not a doctor (I just play one on TV)


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25 Sep 2011, 9:27 pm

I've been rereading Snow Crash, and the article is interesting reading in that light.

I don't know or care if Assange is on the spectrum.